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A threat of suicide and a prayer

This morning, I received a phone call from staff.  David is in crisis. It is more than that.  Yesterday two young men got into a fight or something, and David decided to get involved.  As a result he lost all privileges.  Has to spend 20 minutes of every half hour with staff. They usually start their Saturday’s with basketball, which is David’s favorite activity.  As a result of the restriction, that was not available.  In response to finding this out, David got very upset and said he was going to kill himself. In response, he now spends all of his time with staff.  He is under 24 hour observation.  He is prone to being searched at any time so that staff can make sure that he doesn’t have anything that can use to hurt himself.  At night when he sleeps, he sleeps in the same area where the staff work

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>saw my daughter

> Saw my daughter tonight. she looks and sounds so much better than she did on Wednesday. She asked me if I was disappointed with her. We talked about how I am always telling the kids to talk about and be honest about their feelings. I asked her how I could be disappointed in her doing what I have been telling her to do. I am not disappointed in her. We talked about what is going to happen when she goes back to school and what she wants to happen. We talked about how people were eventually going to find out where she was, and why. We talked about what I needed to do to help our community develop a policy regarding bullying in the schools. I told her that unless she told me I could help her, that I didn’t feel free to talk about it. I explained that

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