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Contact Information:
Barb Miller
CASSP DIrector
600 Louis Dr., Suite 101
Warminster, PA 18974
Phone: 215-442-0760 x 244
County Suicide Prevention Task Force:
Marci Kelly
Prevention Specialist
705 Shady Retreat Rd.
Doylestown, PA 19801
Phone: 215-348-2940 x1720
Suicide prevention resource guide, meetings, training events
Web site: www.bucksiu.org
County Suicide Prevention Resources:
Training for school, law enforcement and corrections personnel
Parent education
Student education
Yellow Ribbon Campaign
Community asset building (Search Institute)
Substance abuse prevention
Gatekeeper training program
County Screening for Suicide Risk Activities:
Student Assistance Program (screening by mental health liaisons)
Community screening
County Mental Health Resources:
*Inpatient psychiatric unit: Foundations Behavioral Health, Lower Bucks Hospital
*School-based mental health services: Penndel Mental Health Center, MCC Behavioral Health, Family Service Association of Bucks County
*Private counseling services for youth at risk for suicide: Associates for Counseling and Educational Services
*Support groups: Survivors of Suicide (Pat Lufkin)
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.
