Delaware County Suicide Prevention
Crisis Intervention Hotline:
610-237-4210 or 610-447-7600
Contact Information:
Shannon Fitzpatrick Thomas, M.A.
Coordinator of Children's Mental Health
20 S. 69th St.
Upper Darby, PA 19082
Phone: 610-713-2479
County Suicide Prevention Task Force:
Ellen Chung-Finnegan and Nikole Heilmann, contact persons
Delaware County Suicide Prevention and Awareness Task Force
4 State Rd., P. O. Box 175
Media, PA 19063
Phone: 610-558-8100, x118 (Ellen Chung-Fagan)
E-mail: info@delcosuicideprevention.org
The task force focuses on prevention and awareness for both children and adults in Delaware County. The task force provides numerous types of prevention strategies including annual walk/run, annual symposium, trainings focusing on special issues like clergy and ethnicity as it relates to suicide, adult suicide review team to identify risk factors, strategies to reduce adult suicide, annual candlelight memorial, and seeking out grants to offer groups for survivors.
Web site: http://www.delcosuicideprevention.org/
County Suicide Prevention Resources:
Training for school, medical, law enforcement and corrections personnel
Gatekeeper training program
Parent education
Student education
Yellow Ribbon Campaign
Substance abuse prevention
Suicide Prevention in Delaware County: An Action Plan for 2009-2011
Winter 2010 Newsletter
County Screening for Suicide Risk Activities:
Student Assistance Program (screening by mental health liaisons)
Community screening
County Mental Health Resources
*Inpatient psychiatric unit: Crozer Chester Medical Center and Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital
*School-based mental health services: Crozer Chester Medical Center at Chester-Upland School District funded through HealthChoices; school-based services also provided by Crozer, Elwyn, Child Guidance Resource Centers and Holcomb Behavioral Health
*Private counseling: EmpowerYouth and other private agencies
*Support groups: Survivors of Suicide; also regional consumer support groups are being developed through the Southeast Regional Mental Health Suicide Prevention Task Force
What Clergy Need to Know About Suicide Loss: How to Help After a Suicide
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.
