Regional Youth Suicide Prevention Workshops
with County Task Force and Community Members
The Pennsylvania Youth Suicide Prevention Monitoring Committee, in collaboration with the Garrett Lee Smith Grant Project and the STAR-Center, sponsored four regional workshops in October and November 2010. The workshops brought together county suicide prevention task forces and community members interested in the commonwealth’s youth suicide prevention efforts.
Reports and information from the workshops
County Youth Suicide Prevention Information and Resources
Click on the county name below to find out about county and local youth suicide prevention initiatives.
For additional information about behavioral health resources in Pennsylvania counties, check the online Network of Care directory. Organized by county, the web site "provides vital information to help link consumers to support groups and personal advocacy resources in the community. The site also provides a repository of evidence-based practices – successful, creative ways for communities to respond to their behavioral-health needs."
List of county CASSP and children's behavioral mental health coordinators
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.
