Urge our President to Issue MANDATED Suicide Prevention Training to All Teachers

Did you know that suicide is not the fifth, not the fourth, not the third, but the SECOND leading cause of death for young people between the ages of 10 and 24?
Suicide.
A tough subject, but a subject that cannot be underestimated. A lot more people think about it than you think-- maybe even you do. Allow me to give you a rough understanding of how many people I mean.
- In AFSP's 2013 Youth Risk Behavior survey, out of the high school students they surveyed, more than 1 in 6 school students in the U.S had seriously considered attempting suicide.
If that's not enough to get your ears to perk up, think of it like this. You care about a loved one's child, or maybe even YOUR child. Place this child in a room full of 6 other students. One student in there feels worthless, beat up and unworthy of their life, and that could be your student.
Many people believe that although suicide is a tragic thing, it can't be prevented. It can be. I promise you. I'm going to make this personal and tell you a story.

I'm a twelve year old girl, and last year (2014) at the age of 11 years old, I'd thought about suicide countless times and attempted it twice.
I was immediately sent to a mental facilitation where I was evaluated and helped. I found a therapist and transferred over to a new antidepressant from the one I'd been taking before.
I found myself sooner than later thinking about my old enemy, 'Sue'. (That's suicide, by the way.) I remember self harming and feeling more lost than I'd ever imagined. I was twelve at this point, the same age as I currently am (2015). I went to therapy a couple of days after I'd started thinking about it again. When I went, my therapist told me she'd noticed I was going back to a very bad place when it came to my emotional state, the place I was right before I attempted suicide. Of course it took a little bit of patience, but eventually I talked out all my emotions with my therapist. I, myself, don't exactly like going to a room to sit down and talk out my emotions and then be given ways to correct these emotions. I just don't. And that's therapy to me. But as she talked to me and encouraged me to talk it out with my parents (of course because of her job description, she had to tell my parents whether I wanted to talk it out or not, since I was in a potentially harmful situation.), I realized why people like her with these jobs and that hold such knowledge on how to deal with situations where people want to take their own lives away were so important. If I hadn't spoken to her, more than likely I would've successfully attempted suicide, because she wouldn't have comforted me and explained everything wrong with going through with that. She showed me there was a better way and a brighter path. If teachers in schools all over the United States of America can learn what my therapist was taught, the signs of suicide and how to help prevent suicide, that one kid out of the six can be saved and so will the people who care about them. Help to get our President to issue mandated suicide prevention training to teachers. Please, this could save so many lives :)