GW Professor’s HAVEN Project Targets Black Youth Suicide Crisis

October is National Depression Education and Awareness Month and an initiative helmed by a GW psychology professor is focusing on a mental health crisis that has largely played out in the shadows: the Black youth suicide emergency. A recent report by the Congressional Black Caucus shows that suicide rates are surging faster among Black adolescents than any other racial or ethnic group. Black children under the age of 13 are twice as likely as white children to die by suicide.