One in 8 adolescents in America suffers from depression which can lead to school failure, substance abuse and suicide. Hawaii Public Radio  broadcast a report on the workshop “Understanding Adolescent Stress and Depression” with Mary Jadwisiak from Washington state and Dr. Evie Yanagida, clinical program manager for The Sex Abuse Treatment Center, a program of Kapiolani Medical Center for Women & Children .  Click here to listen.

Thanks to Nancy Kern, Suicide Prevention Coordinator for the Hawai‘i State Department of Health for bringing this workshop to the community and to  HPR reporter Wayne Yoshioka for covering this event.