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“Saved For Service: Despondent Youth Survives Suicidal Nine-Story Plunge”

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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.
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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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