Butler said her degree has “opened my eyes to the grief and the trauma that people can experience.”

The North Carolina mom said she was inspired to go back to school after she lost her eldest daughter, Joselyn, to suicide in 2015.

A 2018 study discovered that Black children between the ages of 5 and 12 are about twice as likely to die by suicide as their white counterparts of the same age, Washington Post reports.

A new study found that suicide rates for Black children and adolescents have worsened between 2003 and 2017, especially among Black girls.

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