Divorce
Suicide

Almost 50% of today's teens are affected by divorce. That means many of the students in your youth group are right now being affected by the loneliness, anger, depression and other symptoms associated with divorce. In the Divorce session on this video, Burns offers several specific action steps you can take to bring hope and help to kids from disrupted families.

More teens are choosing suicide as a drastic way to escape everything from unstable families the the pressure to achieve and more. So how do you as a youth leader stand in the gap for kids driven to such despair? The Suicide session on this video discusses some basic facts as well as myths about suicide, following up with specific warning signs to look for. Burns also offers handles for helping suicidal adolescents—handles to perhaps save the life of a teen you know.

35 minutes.
From the YouthBuilders Training To Go video series.