Saved For Service Despondent Youth Survives Suicidal Nine-Story Plunge 9/10/2008

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EPISODE NOTES

Host Name:	CWLA Radio
Show Name:	“Saved For Service: Despondent Youth Survives Suicidal Nine-Story Plunge”
Date / Length:	9/10/2008 6:00 PM UTC - 30 min
Description: h:15978 s:266689	In September 2007, Jordan Burnham a popular high school senior and a gifted athlete jumped from his bedroom window on the ninth floor of the apartment building where he lived. He sustained multiple fractures and experienced massive internal bleeding, but miraculously he survived. Jordan Burnham joins host, Tony Regusters for a warmhearted conversation about his dark days of depression, his silence about the suicidal thoughts that eventually overshadowed his will to live, and he shares his personal perspectives about how the plunge that was supposed to end his life has in fact given his life new meaning. expand

Tags:	CWLA child welfare social work children Child abuse family violence domestic violence foster care adoption youth advocacy incarcerated parents kinship care prison jail aging out foster kids foster parents

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navaara

9/11/2008 12:37 AM UTC

I turned into the broadcast on September 10, 2008, under the assumption it was to discuss this young man's suicide attempt and survival. I was greatly disheartened when the show turned to discussion about racism. In attempting to listen to several of the shows on CWLA radio, the topic advertised is not what is actually discussed. This program should have been more about what brought the young man to suicide, his thoughts prior, and his thoughts since, not the fact of him being a young Africa

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