RESOURCES

TEENAGE DEPRESSION & SUICIDE - A Resource List

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Books

• Bev Cobain R.N.C., When Nothing Matters Anymore : A survival guide for depressed teens, Free Spirit Publishing, 1998.
• Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon, Scribner, 2001.
• Kay Redfield Jamison. Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide. Knopf, 1999.
• Danielle Steel. His Bright Light: The Story of Nick Traina. Delacorte Press, 1998.
• Adina Wrobleski. Suicide: Why? Afterwords, 1995.

Support Groups & Organizations

• www.mentalhealthroundtable.ca - 2006 Business and Economic Plan for Mental Health and Productivity. Employees Getting Started, An Agenda for Progress on the Road to Mental Health in the Workplace.
• www.mooddisorderscanada.ca - Mood Disorders Society of Canada (MDSC).
• ww.cmha.ca - Canadian Mental Health Association.
• www.fmm-mif.ca - The Mental Illness Foundation.
• www.camh.net - Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.
• www.crisiscentre.bc.ca - The Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention Centre of BC.
• www.covenanthouse.org/nineline/kid_suicide.html 1-800-999-9999. - Covenant House, for crisis hotline help call the "nine-line".
• www.apa.org - American Psychiatric Association (APA).
• www.ama-assn.org - American Medical Association's “Doctor Finder".
• www.ndmda.org - Depression & Bipolar Support Alliance.

Youth Mental Health Sites

• www.mindyourmind.ca - an award winning site for youth by youth. This is a place where you can get info, resources and the tools to help you manage stress, crisis & mental health problems.
• www.teensuicide.us - Information on how to prevent teen suicide.
• www.teendepression.org - Information on teen depression, issues and other problems.
• www.youthinbc.com - A web-based hotline supported by community members.
• http://www.gov.bc.ca  - Government of BC, Child & Youth Mental Health - includes TEEN DEPRESSION SELF-HELP GUIDE
• www.mcf.gov.bc.ca/mental_health - Government of BC, Child & Youth Mental Health
• www.breakawayyouth.org - Breakaway.
• www.bpkids.org - Child & Adolescent Bipolar Foundation.
• www.aacap.org - American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry.
• www.annafreudcentre.org - The Anna Freud Centre.
• www.yellowribbon.org - Yellow Ribbon Campaign
• www.nostigma.org - No Stigma.
• www.reachout.com.au - Reach Out.
• www.mindout.net - Mind Out.
• www.ayn.ca/health - Aboriginal Youth Network.
• www.psychosissucks.ca/epi - Psychosis Sucks.
• www.depressedteens.com - Depressed Teens.
• www.samaritans.org - Samaritans
• www.youngminds.org.uk - a UK Web site - links & resources for Youth Mental Health.

Other Web site links

• www.mheccu.ubc.ca - Univ. of British Columbia, Mental Health Evaluation & Community Consultation
• www.livingmatters.com - Developed by Bev Cobain, cousin of Kurt Cobain.
• www.thesupportnetwork.com - If you are suicidal or concerned about someone.
• www.homewoodhealth.com - Provider of behavioural, addiction, & psychiatric services.
• www.1-teenage-suicide.com - focus on prevention of teenage suicide & treatment.
• www.bruceelkin.com - "Primary prevention" programs to help people avoid stress & depression.
• www.teensforteens.net - Teens for Teens: Help Stop Teenage Depression.
• www.kidshealth.org - Parent, teens & kids' sections.
• www.wingofmadness.com - Depression information including writing, community & links.
• www.livewithdepression.org - The Kristin Brooks Hope Center; one-of-a-kind website.
• http://menanddepression.nimh.nih.gov - Men & depression. An on-line resource for men.
• www.thecairn.com On mental illness from a caregiver's perspective.

Health Resource

• Direct Alert offers a personal emergency response system