800-929-9583
Contact Information:
Jill Pecht
Drug and Alcohol Therapist
24 N. Main St.
Lewistown, PA 17044
Phone: 717-242-3070
County Suicide Prevention Task Force: yes
Student Assistance Program coordination team sponsoring a STAR Center presentation for Spring 2010 on postvention planning for SAP teams in Huntingdon, Mifflin and Juniata Counties.
Web site: none
County Suicide Prevention Resources
Training for school, medical, law enforcement, and corrections personnel
Substance abuse prevention
Yellow Ribbon Campaign
County Screening for Suicide Risk Activities:
Student Assistance Program (screening by mental health liaisons): TeenScreen
Community screening
County Mental Health Resources:
*Inpatient psychiatric unit: Lewistown Hospital
*Outpatient services for youth at risk for suicide: Lewistown Hospital, The Meadows Psychiatric Center
*School-based mental health services: Youth Advocate Programs
*Private counseling services: Lewistown Hospital, Clear Concepts Counseling, The Meadows Psychiatric Center
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.
