A8 - Sunday, January 1, 1984, - North Shore News a February conference set to take THERE WERE 18] suicide attempts — 15 of them successful — on the North Shore between January 1982 and January 1983. The majority of these were people between the ages of 14 and 21. By BILL BELL week ago Reid said, ‘‘there has been, on the part of North Shore professionals, a growing concern over the number of adolescent suicides.’’ Reid was requesting funds for a grant application of $150 for the United Way’s Committee on Children and Behavior. “The conference has the dual purpose of raising the awareness level in the com- munity about the problems young people are experienc- ing (e.g. unemployment, suicides, drug and alcohol abuse) and of increasing skill level of professionals who are A9 - Sanday, January 1, 1984, - North Shore News on adolescent suicide, risk taking questions ing that grant, ft was also in- formed by the United Way in another report, that due to the government’s restraint package, services that are aimed at preventing adoles- cent suicide have been curtailed. ‘Anita Dadson, chairperson of the North Shore Division increased stress in the North Shore Community ‘‘due to unemployment and the resul- tant imcrease in family breakdown, wife assault, adolescent and adult suicide.’’ Dadson’s report was in a Summary of Presentations to North Shore MLA’s which > Children and Youth,told the MLA’s that many low-cost preventative programs are being ‘‘reduced or eliminated.’’ ‘*These programs include school counsellors, com- munity health nurses, mental health services and individual Abuse Team and four PACE workers would be eliminated under the restraint program. **The government’s move to privatization of essential health and human services raises concerns about quality standards,”’ the report said. “‘The North Shore agen- decision making.”’ Jn the report, North Shore Union Board of Health representative Murray Dykeman said the provincial funding has been reduced along with funding from the two North Shore School Boards. .ing inspectors, etc. nurses, psychologists, licens- These programs are preventative and low cost.’’ According to the report, Silver. Harbour Centre, North Shore Living and Learning along with North Shore Neighborhood House and family counselling,’’ the cies urge the government to **The result has been acut- are all suffering from the Those figures, accordingto bara Reid, have North Shore = Youth. providing services to of the United Way, pointed took place on November !7. report said. ‘review it plans to cut these back of many health services restraint program with West Vancouver’s Secretary professionals concerned. Those funds will be used teenagers and their families,’ out that the United Way In it she said that Toby It also stated that eight services and to develop a im such as home care, nutri- ‘‘serious’’ cuts in services to to the Community Services In a written presentation to for a conference on Adoles-_ Reid said. 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