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Utah Board of Education creates $1.8M grant program to fight teen suicide, despite worries about secularism and government overreach

When Catherine Voutaz’s son ended his own life last year, the mother said Thursday, it was “like a bomb going off,” with shrapnel hitting family, friends and neighbors.

Her son Chander was an AP and concurrent-enrollment student at Herriman High School, with loving parents and dreams of being an oncologist and taking an upcoming trip to Spain.

“Why would my child do that?” Voutaz asked. “It’s a loss to the community and the entire world that he is gone.”

Over the last year, many more bombs have gone off at Herriman High School in Jordan School District.