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Haesler Youth Suicide

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This article published by The Age newspaper discusses the management of youth suicide in schools and how suicide is addressed. Author Dan Haesler is a teacher, writer and speaker and has won the NSW Premier’s Anika Foundation Teacher Scholarship award for his addressment and risen awareness of youth depression in education, Haesler is also an active member of Wellbeing Australia’s NSW Advisory Board. Through this article Haesler draws from his own experience dealing with youth depression in schools to further illustrate his point. Haesler starts off by describes youth suicide as the silent killer in our schools because no one talks about. Haesler highlights the fact that the NSW Department of Education directs staff to not correspond with students

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