Community concerns about mental health, but Cumberland has little capacity to address them
More than half the county is concerned about one thing: mental health. So are experts at Cape Fear Valley Health and the National Alliance on Mental Illness. But the county has few resources to address them.
How Cumberland County schools are battling student suicide in 2024
UNC-Chapel Hill professor and psychologist Dorothy Espelage doesn’t pull any punches when it comes to student suicide in North Carolina.
Teen sexual extortion cases rising online, NC officials warn
As teens spend more time on social media, parents need to watch for signs that they are being exploited, North Carolina officials warn. Between 2021 and 2022, the FBI saw a 600 percent increase …
Skyrocketing teen boy suicides linked to firearms access
Suicide rates were 3.2 times higher for teenage boys than teen girls between 2018 and 2020 — with guns increasingly playing an outsize role. Boys and young men represent 80 percent …
A look at North Carolina’s first year with the 988 mental health crisis line
It’s been a little more than a year since the launch of the national Suicide & Crisis Lifeline number , 988, and North Carolina saw a 31% increase in calls for support during that time. While the national hotline isn’t exactly new, the shortened number is. The previous 10-digit number was replaced by the easier-to-remember 988…
SBI investigators say deaths of police officer and his wife were murder-suicide
The State Bureau of Investigation is reviewing the deaths of a Fayetteville police officer and his wife in an apparent murder-suicide, according to a news release issued Wednesday.