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With rates of youth suicide in Hawai‘i on the rise in the last decade, the University of Hawai‘i Mānoa medical school has been awarded $1.4 million to intervene as early as possible in childrens’ lives to prevent suicide.

A measure of how serious Hawai’i's problem has become, the medical school’s three-year award is part of more than $45 million being allocated to support state-wide suicide prevention efforts.

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