How Facebook Has Become One Of The World’s Largest Suicide Screening And Alert Programs

The company ramped up monitoring of its users' posts after several people live-screened their suicides in 2017. But the proactive steps the tech giant is taking to help address the mental health crisis also puts it in a tricky spot as Facebook faces scrutiny about its privacy practices. In other public health news: evacuating the elderly, virtual reality and medicine, flu season, contact lenses, marijuana, Ebola, hearing loss and more.

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Child welfare agency suspected First Nations girls were planning suicides

When Kanina Sue Turtle last visited her First Nation she told her mother she had met someone in Sioux Lookout.

It was a girl and they were close.

Both girls were living in foster care homes in the Sioux under the protection of Tikinagan Child and Family Services.

Eleven days later Turtle, 15, killed herself on Oct. 29, 2016.

More >> Child welfare agency suspected First Nations girls were planning suicides

70% of Prostitutes Come From Foster Care - LK Report for 9/15/17

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Late last month, the Times made some rather astounding claims that Tower Hamlets council had placed a five-year-old white, British Christian girl into the care of a niqab-wearing Muslim family who didn’t speak English. As a qualified children’s social worker with more than 20 years’ experience, I suspected the story was exaggerated. My suspicions were confirmed within the next few days as the council claimed there were numerous errors in the reporting of the case and a court order was published.

More >> Muslim fostering row: Careless press must be held to account

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This year, another 10,000 children would have left care, what will happen to them?

What happens when a kid has to leave care after their eighteenth birthday? Are they able to get a job? Do they go to university? Has the government, seen as the ‘parents’, given them the tools needed to succeed in their future endeavours?

More >> 70% Of Prostitutes Come From Foster Care: Rebecca Southworth – One Of The Lucky Ones

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BENGALURU: At a health camp held in a reputed school in BTM Layout recently, a doctor and his staff were accused of abusing some girls.The students reached out to a teacher, who passed on the information to Childline Bangalore. But when she was asked to support the investigation, she pulled back. Even the girls' parents decided to stay quiet, saying the matter had been resolved.

More >> Teachers reporting child abuse often back out later

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Joel Kurtinitis’ opinion piece, “Attacks on homeschooling are short on facts” [Sept. 10], was missing some facts of its own.

Kurtinitis compared our database of homeschool abuse cases to the number of reports investigated by child protective services annually to claim that homeschool students are 4,000 times less likely to be abused. This is absurd. Our database includes only cases that are both especially horrific and hit the news. Even so, when we compared the fatalities in our database with a comprehensive list of child abuse fatalities nationwide we found that homeschooled children were no less likely to die from child abuse than children who attend school.

More >> Homeschool children are no more, no less likely to die from child abuse

• Local boy critically injured in state custody

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NORMAN, Oklahoma - A Norman teen is in a coma after he was injured at a state-contracted group home. His mother says she can't get any answers about what happened. 

More >> Norman Teen In Coma After Injury At Group Home

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GRAND FORKS, N.D. (Valley News Live) Internal emails revealed concerns with the leadership of the CPS department ultimately lead 11 people to leave a department of 7 people in just over a year's time.

More >> Families, former social worker claim dysfunctional CPS department is hurting kids

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Tiahleigh Palmer’s foster brother could be freed by January next year after being sentenced to four years in jail on Thursday afternoon.

Trent Thorburn pleaded guilty to four charges, including incest, after admitting to his mother in 2015 that he had had sex with then 12-year-old Palmer.

More >> Anger over 'pathetic' sentence for Tiahleigh Palmer's foster brother

• Tiahleigh Palmer's foster brother Trent Thorburn to appeal his four-year sentence on incest and perjury charges
• Trent Thorburn to appeal four-year sentence

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LINCOLN — Nebraska youths in state care attempted suicide in rising numbers last year, according to a new report.

More >> Report: Suicide attempts, sexual abuse cases rise among young Nebraskans in state care

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James Dunn is a former Lake County Foster Parent of the Year who fostered 12 different children with no complaints.

Now, the 42-year-old Concord Township resident will never be allowed to foster another child again.

More >> Former Lake County Foster Parent of the Year sentenced for crimes against boys

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Cape Town - A Khayelitsha father, 59, who has been charged with sodomising, raping and sexually abusing his now 16-year-old foster daughter between 2007 and 2013, will know next week whether he will be granted bail.

More >> Alleged rapist of foster daughter pleads for bail

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The number of child abuse investigations in Bucks County has nearly doubled over the last two years, while the annual turnover rate for caseworkers who investigate those claims is twice as high as it was before 2015.

More >> PA auditor general: Child-welfare system 'breakdowns' put kids at risk for abuse, death

• Report: PA child abuse workers swamped, underpaid
• 'SYSTEM IS BROKEN': C&Y workers overwhelmed, children at risk

Foster care agency leaders quit amid teen suicides, other turmoil

Beset by turmoil over the recent suicides of two foster children in their care — and persistent complaints that they were overly secretive and unresponsive — three of the top administrators of Miami’s Our Kids child welfare agency have resigned.

More >> Foster care agency leaders quit amid teen suicides, other turmoil

Teen who hanged herself at Keys shelter got lost in the foster care system

When Lauryn Martin-Everett hanged herself at a troubled Tavernier youth shelter, children’s advocates in the small island community began asking questions. The answers, they were told, were hundreds of miles away.

More >> Teen who hanged herself at Keys shelter got lost in the foster care system

• How a suicidal Florida foster child fell through the cracks

One foster child hanging stirs anguish; the other is barely noticed

Lauryn Martin-Everett tied a blue patterned scarf around her neck and hanged herself from a doorway at a troubled Florida Keys youth shelter.

More >> One foster child hanging stirs anguish; the other is barely noticed

Foster child who killed herself on Facebook Live was given medicine with suicide warning

When a Miami psychologist examined Naika Venant in June 2015, she found a “depressed, angry and fearful young girl” who thought often about death and dying. “She expects people to abandon and betray her,” the psychologist wrote.

More >> Foster child who killed herself on Facebook Live was given medicine with suicide warning

Psychotropic cocktail may have contributed to Facebook Live suicide

Part of a psychological evaluation administered to Naika Venant in June 2015 included a sentence completion test.

More >> Psychotropic cocktail may have contributed to Facebook Live suicide

Mother of teen who committed suicide on Facebook Live speaks to Local 10 News

The mother of a 14-year-old who committed suicide live on Facebook spoke exclusively to Local 10 News' Shyann Malone to dispute recent reports that she says paint her as a villain.

More >> Mother of teen who committed suicide on Facebook Live speaks to Local 10 News

Mother of Facebook Live suicide teen may have taunted her while watching

In a twist to a horrible tragedy in Miami in January, a foster child who committed suicide live on social media may have been watched by her mother, according to a Florida Department of Children (DCF) and Families report released to the media Monday.

More >> Mother of Facebook Live suicide teen may have taunted her while watching

• Girl who hanged herself on Facebook Live was sexually abused, beaten, rejected, DCF says

DCF to judge: We didn’t lie; we made a mistake

Lawyers for the state’s shaky child welfare agency assured a Miami judge Wednesday that it was a “simple mistake,” rather than a deliberate lie, when they gave her incorrect information about a girl who might have witnessed the suicide of a foster sibling.

More >> DCF to judge: We didn’t lie; we made a mistake

Children removed from families are at highest risk to suicide

Individuals who as children were removed from their biological families are the nation’s highest risk group to suicide. They are four times at risk than the nation’s highest population risk group to suicide; the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population of the Kimberley which is the world’s second highest population risk group to suicide – behind Greenland’s Inuit peoples.

More >> Children removed from families are at highest risk to suicide

Study explores suicides of youth connected to care system

A study into Manitoba youth connected to child welfare shows that almost three-quarters of suicide victims are addicted to drugs or alcohol.

More >> Study explores suicides of youth connected to care system

Data: Indiana has highest rate in U.S. of teens who considered suicide

Data: Indiana has highest rate in U.S. of teens who considered suicide

Indiana has the highest rate in the country of teens who have considered suicide and the second-highest rate of those who attempted it, according to a report from the Indiana Youth Institute.

Manitoba child-welfare system seeing younger suicides: advocate's report

Manitoba child-welfare system seeing younger suicides: advocate's report

Manitoba children appear to be taking their own lives at a younger and younger age and the government may have to refocus its suicide-prevention programs, says children's advocate Darlene MacDonald.
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There were 17 suicides among young people in the 2012-13 fiscal year. Eleven involved kids in the province's child-welfare system. Four were just 12 years old, the report said.

‘Secret adoption’ failed after girl’s suicide attempt

‘Secret adoption’ failed after girl’s suicide attempt

A former public schoolgirl who ran away from home after a leading psychologist planned her adoption was abandoned by her prospective parents when she attempted suicide, a tribunal was told yesterday.

Abused Foster Teen Who Hung HImself “Wanted To Be White”

Abused Foster Teen Who Hung HImself “Wanted To Be White”

SEXUALLY-ABUSED as a child and shunned by the education system, a teenage foster boy was driven to take his own life.

Asylum seeker children attempting suicide at Pontville 'prison'

Asylum seeker children attempting suicide at Pontville 'prison'

Child and teenage asylum seekers have attempted suicide and self-harm while being held at the Pontville detention centre in Tasmania.