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The E-Team broke the story on News 5 in February that one in five high school-aged students enrolled in Cleveland Metropolitan School District tried to kill themselves in 2015. It’s the highest suicide-attempt rate out of any major urban school district in the United States.

The stressors of being a teen are elevated in Cleveland, where more than 70 percent of the student population lives in poverty and estimated 4,000 students are homeless. But there is help; in the same way schools protect a student’s safety, in Cleveland, they’ve now learned they need to protect a student’s soul.

“Humanware is not just a program, it is a way of life, it is a way of thinking,” said Denine Goolsby, the Executive Director of CMSD’s Humanware program.

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source: News5.com

LOCAL NEWS: CMSD Program Works To Reverse Alarming Suicide Rates  was originally published on praisecleveland.com