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Severna Park coalition takes on teen suicide

Capital Gazette Communications
Published 05/26/09

Under the bright lights of Severna Park High School's stadium, a camera panned across a staged football game, coming to rest on a set of cheerleader's pompoms lying on the ground. Their owner was missing.

Courtesy of Michelle Studnicky
Students from area schools act in a scene shot at the Severn School for a public service announcement aimed at preventing teen suicide. Parents, school counselors and community groups in Severna Park have come together to work on the project as the Guiding Coalition for the Prevention of Teen Suicide.
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The clip is one of several that will appear in a two-minute public-service announcement created by a group of Severna Park residents to draw awareness to the county's - and the nation's - increasing problem with teen suicide. Each scene, from an art classroom to a birthday party, shows an empty seat where a student should have been.

At the end, after a narrator urges teens to speak up if someone they know is...

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