{"id":14869,"date":"2014-10-25T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-25T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mentalhe180dev.wpenginepowered.com\/news\/congressman-young-expresses-sincere-apology-for-pain-caused-by-statements-on-suicide\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T08:56:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T13:56:23","slug":"congressman-young-expresses-sincere-apology-for-pain-caused-by-statements-on-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.grafik.mentalhealthfirstaid.org\/es\/news\/congressman-young-expresses-sincere-apology-for-pain-caused-by-statements-on-suicide\/","title":{"rendered":"Congressman Young Expresses Sincere Apology for Pain Caused by Statements on Suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a speech to the Alaska Federation of Natives Convention,\u00a0<b>Alaskan Congressman Don Young\u00a0<\/b>today shared his sincere and honest apology for the pain caused by his recent statements on the issue of suicide. In a remorseful speech to AFN Convention delegates, Congressman Young focused on his own personal experiences of dealing with a trouble family member, in addition to the steps Congress can take to support mental health programs, combat domestic violence, and prevent suicide. Congress Young shared the following comments:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/donyoung.house.gov\/news\/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=397969\">Link to source<\/a><\/li>\n<li>10\/25\/2014<\/li>\n<li><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a speech to the Alaska Federation of Natives Convention,\u00a0Alaskan Congressman Don Young\u00a0today shared his sincere and honest apology for the pain caused by his recent statements on the issue &#8230; <a title=\"Congressman Young Expresses Sincere Apology for Pain Caused by Statements on Suicide\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.grafik.mentalhealthfirstaid.org\/es\/news\/congressman-young-expresses-sincere-apology-for-pain-caused-by-statements-on-suicide\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Congressman Young Expresses Sincere Apology for Pain Caused by Statements on Suicide\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"topic":[],"news-type":[172],"class_list":["post-14869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","news-type-blog"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Congressman Young Expresses Sincere Apology for Pain Caused by Statements on Suicide<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.grafik.mentalhealthfirstaid.org\/es\/news\/congressman-young-expresses-sincere-apology-for-pain-caused-by-statements-on-suicide\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_MX\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Congressman Young Expresses Sincere Apology for Pain Caused by Statements on Suicide\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In a speech to the Alaska Federation of Natives Convention,\u00a0Alaskan Congressman Don Young\u00a0today shared his sincere and honest apology for the pain caused by his recent statements on the issue ... 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