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Friday, February 07, 2003
Web site provides mental health resources to students - Renay San Miguel, CNN
A child goes off to college, and with that child goes the dreams of his parents. For Phil Satow, those dreams were shattered in 1998 when his son Jed committed suicide while a sophomore at the University of Arizona. "If I can prevent even one parent from having to suffer the way my wife and I did," Satow told "Hotwired," "then it would be a wonderful thing to avoid that pain." Jed Satow lives on through the Jed Foundation, and the first result of that is http://Ulifeline.org, a new mental health resource for colleges and troubled students. Thirty colleges and universities offer the confidential service to some 500,000 students. Satow makes it clear that Ulifeline.org is not a suicide prevention hotline, nor a provider of mental health services. The Web site is simply a place for students and parents to get information that might help a suicidal student make a better choice.
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