Title:  Hispanic Suicide Rate
Date: CWKN #391, June 25, 2008
Time: 1:41
SUGGESTED LEAD: A NEW STUDY BY THE C-D-C FINDS THAT THE ATTEMPTED SUICIDE RATE OF HISPANIC TEENS HAS BEEN RISING… AND IS NOW ALMOST 50 PERCENT HIGHER THAN OTHER AMERICAN KIDS.  WHY ARE LATINO TEENS SO TROUBLED?  THAT STORY IN TODAY’S CONNECT WITH KIDS REPORT.
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NARR:  HISPANIC TEENS FACE THE SAME PRESSURES AS ANY KID… (:04)

SUPER: Jolis Abreu, 13-years old (:04)
01:01:01 “Growing up and changes and peer pressure, all of that, we gotta handle it.”

NARR:  BUT EXPERTS SAY LATINO KIDS OFTEN FACE ANOTHER STRESS:  A CONFLICT BETWEEN THE TRADITIONALLY STRICT CULTURE OF THEIR PARENTS AND AN AMERICAN CULTURE THAT SEEMS TO BE MORE PERMISSIVE… (:11)
 
SUPER: Pierluigi Mancini, Ph.D., Addiction Specialist (:23)
“We’re seeing many Latino youth that are born here or recently arrive here that are now living in a world much different than their parents’ world.  So their parents don’t have a true understanding of the challenges these kids are facing.”

NARR:  THESE KIDS CAN FEEL OVERWHELMED… WITH MESSAGES ABOUT DRUGS AND ALCOHOL … ABOUT SEXUALITY. 

THEY WANT TO TALK.

BUT THESE ARE TOPICS, HE SAYS, ESPECIALLY IN HISPANIC FAMILIES… THAT A CHILD IS NOT SUPPOSED TO BRING UP WITH THEIR PARENT. (:15)

SOT: Pierluigi Mancini, Ph.D., Addiction Specialist
“How does a 13-year-old Latina girl approach her parents about that issue? We don’t know. There are no skills, there’s no bridge.”

NARR:  AND, HE SAYS, WHEN A CHILD CAN’T TALK TO THEIR PARENT ABOUT THEIR ANXIETIES, THEIR FEARS…

THAT CAN LEAD TO SELF-DESTRUCTIVE BEHAVIOR, EVEN SUICIDE. (:10)

SOT:  Pierluigi Mancini, Ph.D., Addiction Specialist
“We know as human being that whether I’m angry or sad, if I don’t talk to someone, that feeling doesn’t go away.”

SOT:  Jolis Abreu, 13-years-old
“It’s like they keep it to their self and that pressure builds up and then, once they get - they can’t handle it and explode.”

NARR: EXPERTS SAY LATINO PARENTS SHOULD REALIZE THE UNIQUE PRESSURES THEIR CHILDREN FACE… AND TALK. (:06)

SOT: Pierluigi Mancini, Ph.D., Addiction Specialist

“We need to break that taboo, break that barrier, and talk about it.”

NARR: I’M COLLIN SIEDOR FOR CONNECT WITH KIDS. (:03)

SUGGESTED TAG:   THE CDC SURVEY OF 14-THOUSAND HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS HAS BEEN CONDUCTED EVERY OTHER YEAR SINCE 1991.  FOR MORE INFORMATION LOG ONTO <LOCAL URL> AND CLICK ON THE CONNECT WITH KIDS ICON.