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Suicide Prevention Week was September 5 through 11.  At this year’s Show Me You Care About Suicide Prevention Conference on July 21-22, 2016, Bart Andrews, PhD gave a presentation titled “Community Saves Lives and Community Can Happen Anywhere – Suicide Prevention and Social Media #SPSM”.  Click here to view it for free from the Missouri Institute of Mental Health.

More resources from the Web:



Books at the St. Louis Public Library include:
  • Stay: a history of suicide and the philosophies against it by Jennifer Michael Hecht.
  • Understanding and preventing suicide: the development of self-destructive patterns and ways to alter them by Kristine Bertini.
  • Out of the darkness: teens and suicide by Marion
  • Crook.

Suicide prevention

Nutrition Today is another magazine with a focus on nutrition.  It leans more toward the professional side of things than the popular/consumer, with in-depth research articles.  It also offers the chance to earn Continuing Professional Education Credits.

Every two months you will find a new issue to read in Central Library's Science and Technology Room.

Magazine Monday: Nutrition Today