724-662-2227
Contact Information:
Tracy Bornick
Crisis Intervention Supervisor
8406 Sharon Mercer Rd.
Mercer, PA 16137
Phone: 724-662-2230
County Suicide Prevention Task Force: none
Web site: www.mercercountybhc.org
County Suicide Prevention Resources:
Training for school personnel
Substance abuse prevention
Suicide prevention efforts coordinated by Mercer County Behavioral Health Commission include a CIRT team, Student Assistance Program (SAP), and 24-hour cris intervention and emergency services.
County Screening for Suicide Risk Activities:
Student Assistance Program (screening by mental health liaisons): contact 724-662-1550
County Mental Health Resources:
*Inpatient psychiatric unit: Sharon Regional Health System
*Outpatient mental health services for youth at risk for suicide: Community Counseling Center of Mercer County, SRHS Behavioral Health Services
*School-based mental health services: Community Counseling Center
*Faith-based and private counseling services available from various clergy and providers
*Support groups: Survivors of Suicide, Grace Chapel Church, 724-962-5000
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.
