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Speaker 1: The city recently launched a new website, Peabody Promise, with

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Speaker 1: the goal of preventing suicide, reducing stigma, and offering support.

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Speaker 1: This comes five months after an eighth grader from Higgins

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Speaker 1: Middle School, Jason Bernard, took their own life after being bullied. Jayden,

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Speaker 1: now in the ninth grade, knew him.

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Speaker 2: We wanted people to finally find justice for him, and

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Speaker 2: we wanted like the story to come to light and

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Speaker 2: finally help him out.

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Speaker 1: He's happy that a resource and support website has been launched.

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Speaker 1: He just hopes it would have been done sooner.

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Speaker 3: He definitely could have helped. For sure, it could have prevented.

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Speaker 1: This website resources include links to the suicide Prevention hotline

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Speaker 1: and bully prevention forms in Peabody. James Rojas w b Z,

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Speaker 1: Boston's news radio