According to an article on Metro News, on March 13, 2012, Governor Earl Ray Tomblin signed the Jason Flatt Act, a bill that will require the West Virginia Center for Professional Development to provide training resources on suicide prevention for state schools. According to the article, the goal of the bill is to train teachers on the warning signs of depression and suicide. The Jason Flatt act was created after the 1997 suicide of Jason Flatt. Following his son’s passing, Clark Flatt, Jason’s father, pushed state legislators to pass a law that would help prevent future suicides from occurring. At the time the article was published, West Virginia was the seventh state to pass the act, but has since been followed by both Utah and South Carolina.
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Source: WV Metro News
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