Crisis Intervention Hotline:
Adams: 717-632-4900 or 717-637-3711 (after hours)
Contact Information:
Paul Stevens (also part of York)
CASSP Coordinator
219 York St.
Hanover, PA 17331
Phone: 717-634-6252
County Suicide Prevention Task Force: none; however, there is subcommittee on Youth Suicide Prevention as part of the Behavioral Task Force of Healthy Adams County:
Nate Rivera, co-chair
Phone: 717-339-0511
Rose Maturo, co-chair
Web site: none
County Suicide Prevention Resources:
Parent education
Substance abuse prevention
County Screening for Suicide Prevention:
Student Assistance Program (screening by mental health liaisons)
County Mental Health Resources:
*Inpatient psychiatric unit: York Hospital
*Outpatient mental health services for youth at risk for suicide: Pennsylvania Counseling Services, Wellspan Behavioral Health, Pennsylvania Comprehensive Behavioral Health, T. W. Ponessa Associates, Adams-Hanover Counseling Services/Crisis Intervention and Emergency Services
*School-based mental health services: Pennsylvania Counseling Services
*Private counseling services for youth at risk for suicide: same as outpatient
*Other: Collaborating for Youth, a collaborative of organizations supporting the youth of Adams County, 717-338-0300
The Pennsylvania Suicide Prevention Initiative is a Public/Private Ongoing Collaborative including: Survivors of Suicide, Statewide & Regional Representatives from Departments of Public Welfare, Health, Education, and Aging, Juvenile Court Judges’ Commission, County MH/MR Administrators Association and several county programs, County CASSP Coordinators, American Trauma Society, The STAR Center, PA Child Death Review Team, PA Protection and Advocacy, PA Psychiatric Society, PA Association of School Social Workers, NAMI of PA, Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania, Mental Health Association of PA, PIN of PA, PA Del Val NAPNAP, a County Medical Examiner, a City Health Bureau, a State University, a Behavioral Health MCO, Common Roads, Juvenile Detention Center Association of PA, Pennsylvania Community Providers Association, Pennsylvania Council on Children, Youth, and Family Services, Providers and Student Assistance Program Trainers, School Districts, Yellow Ribbon Chapters, Feeling Blue Suicide Prevention Council, multiple county task forces and other grassroots organizations.
