Mark Reinecke

A speaker from a children's hospital in River Forest talks at a suicide prevention workshop at Lincoln-Way High School in New Lenox in 1999. Lincoln-Way High School had three teens commit suicide the previous year. (Stacey Wescott/baiduhai)

Mark Reinecke: A goal of zero youth suicides is reasonable. Here’s how we get there.

October 3, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

Saving the life of someone who is contemplating suicide is possible, and the goal of zero suicides is reasonable.

Nurse Christine Jewell cares for a COVID-19 patient in the intensive care unit at Rush Copley Medical Center on Dec. 10, 2020, in Aurora.

Op-ed: Pandemic-related trauma is real. We need resources to help people through emotional pain.

May 3, 2021 at 4:29 p.m.

An 11-year-old patient of mine changed abruptly from an outgoing, confident boy to an anxious, fearful one after his father developed COVID-19. He now wakes in the middle of the...

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