IT'S TIME TO MAKE CHANGE HAPPEN

I've been banging head against a brick wall for 10 years... it's not working, stats are not coming down - JACK'S MUM HELEN

- BY SALLY HIND

Hard work we did has paused and Record campaign is perfect timing.. something drastic must be done - CALLUM'S SISTER SHANNON

GRIEVING families who were promised change after losing their loved ones to suicide today back our Save Young Lives campaign as they fight on for lifesaving support.

Shannon Brown's world was shattered when her little brother Callum Dunne took his own life in woodland aged just 16.

Helen Mitchell was told her struggling son Jack, 18, was just your “typical teenager” before he cut his life short.

Both women found the courage to channel their grief into fighting for better support since the deaths but today say Scotland is still failing its young people.

The Record launched our Save Young Lives campaign this month to tackle youth suicide and support kids in crisis.

Helen founded the Trust Jack Foundation in the wake of her son's death and now - along with Shannon - has backed our drive in the hope it will help reverse harrowing statistics, which show more than one in four deaths among young Scots are by probable suicide.

Helen said: “It’s almost 10 years since I set up the foundation and sometimes it feels like I'm still banging my head against a brick wall.