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Brian Rudman: Boot camp a school for recidivists
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Local Focus: Inmates and schoolboys are 'Bruthas'
When prison inmates become business partners. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Twelve Questions with Peter O'Connor
Peter O'Connor teaches theatre in prisons, psychiatric hospitals and dementia wards.
Mental health initiatives: E-therapy for youth, pre-schoolers targeted
The Government has announced 17 new mental health initiatives.
Boy, 14, arrested after aggravated robbery
Teen charged with aggravated robbery of Murupara General Store.
The teen girls who wanted to die - Hailey and Milly's story of hope
Two teens tell of a life-saving bond that began at Starship hospital. Distressing content.
Thanks NZ for talking about suicide
Warning: This article is about suicide and may be distressing for some readers.
'When you're in trouble, who do you call?'
One solution to reduce New Zealand's high suicide rate = one national crisis text number.
Best thing you can give teens? Options
COMMENT: We should expose the next generation to options and provide a plethora of ideas.
Girl left alone, after hours, in government office
Girl found by cleaner, alone, after-hours in Ministry for Vulnerable Children office
Opinion: How to protect kids from suicide
Warning: This article is about suicide and may be distressing for some readers.
New programme aims to build resilience in youth
Warning: This article is about youth suicide and may be distressing for some readers.
Tackling suicide 'starts at preschool'
Warning: This article is about youth suicide and may be distressing for some readers.
Youth suicide: 'It's an absolute tragedy'
Health Minister Dr Jonathan Coleman: "Nothing worse" than losing a child to suicide.
'I'm so glad I survived'
Warning: This article is about suicide and may be distressing for some readers.
'Youth suicide is not inevitable'
Warning: This article is about youth suicide and may be distressing for some readers.
Young Kiwis' hopes for a better future
Speakers from Festival for the Future share ideas on how NZ can make a better future.
'My grief lingers as a dull pain'
Final part of a mother's diary about the loved son who took his life. Distressing content.
Porn ruining sex for virgins
Experts are calling for better male role models and more critical thinking.
'I'm always 0.1 second from tears'
Part five of a mother's diary about the loved son who took his life. Distressing content.
Youth suicide - our inconvenient truth
Warning: This article is about suicide and may be distressing for some.
More Kiwi teens talking mates out of smoking
The once-cool appeal of smoking to teens now appears to have been stubbed out.
'I kneel beside my son's empty bed'
Part four of a mother's diary about the loved son who took his life. Distressing content.
Supplementing First XVs raises fears
Not a better time to acknowledge that a monster has been created, writes Gregor Paul.
'No one should know this pain'
Part three of a mother's diary about the loved son who took his life. Distressing content.
How parents can watch for self-harm
Warning: This article is about suicide and may be distressing for some.
'I wish every day he was back with us'
A mother's diary about the much-loved son who took his own life. Distressing content.
'The answers are there, just ask us'
Officials under fire for "not actually taking a stand" on suicide. Warning: Distressing
'The morning our lives changed forever'
A mother's diary about the much-loved son who took his own life. Distressing content.
Teen self-harmed to 'get out of the pain in my head'
Hospitals daily discharging more than 11 Kiwis under 25 with self-mutilation injuries.
Tommy Wilson: Salute to an imaginative dad
The voting public gets to decide on the billboard and the promises made on it.
Special party delights Bay children
Free event offers kids food, games, rides and various local entertainment.
Youths wreak havoc in heart of Hastings
Youths shot toy guns, threw tables and chairs and stole a bike in Hastings.