Leah and I are often met with roadblocks when we are speaking out to schools or organizations only because no one wants to hear the words suicide and mental health. But our daughters' stories go far deeper than that, and there are life lessons to be learned. For us as parents, it's really frustrating when we get a reply back telling us, “Sorry, we can't have you in our school system or at this assembly because you're going to trigger our kids”. We are far beyond wanting to trigger any child.
If a school doesn't have supports in place to help children or young people with stories like that, the kids are hearing them online, in the newspapers, on the radio, and on TV anyway. I have to say that it hurts us deeply when we are told such things.