New Trier Student’s Suicide Puts Mom on a Mission
The organization, Elyssa’s Mission, has created a scholarship program to encourage Loyola Academy students to raise awareness of teen suicide.
Northfield resident Joanne Meyers gets frustrated when she hears about high school students committing suicide. She worries there will be another death, or that there are still at-risk students in that community not getting the help they need. It’s a personal issue for Meyers, whose daughter, Elyssa, committed suicide in 2004 as a sophomore at New Trier High School. “These schools that had these suicides, some of them need to really step up to the plate and do more,” Meyers said. Suicide is the third leading cause of death among adolescents, and Meyers believes the best way to prevent deaths is to train other teens to look for the signs. That’s the goal behind Elyssa’s Mission, the not-for-profit organization Elyssa’s friends and family …
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