In France, ten out of 100,000 young people between the ages of 15 and 24 die from suicide each year. Roughly 7% of adolescents in school aged 11 to 19 have attempted suicide during their lifetime and close to 30% often have suicidal thoughts. There are multiple risk factors (social, familial, psychological, psycopathological and behavioral) and the combination, more than the weight of a single factor, is in question. The standards of care (in hospital or elsewere), remain quite unexplored and little evaluated. Some proposals are made in terms of research and prevention.