Teenline: a CMHC-based adolescent suicide prevention and intervention program

The need for adolescent suicide prevention ad intervention programs has been demonstrated by national statistics and in frightening newspaper headlines. Can any of us ignore the fact that 5,000 young people between the ages of 15 and 24 commit suicide each year? The two groups in most frequent contact with these adolescents outside of the family are educators and mental health professionals. This article reports how these two professional groups on one occasion merged into a single unit to combat a serious problem. Their cooperative efforts prevented a more devastating incident and demonstrated how a difficult task can be accomplished when various resources are brought together in a single organized effort.