570-253-0321
Contact Information:
Michelle Valinski
Mental Health Program Specialist
648 Park St.
Honesdale, PA 18431
Phone: 570-253-9200
County Suicide Prevention Task Force:
Amy Bass/Carol Wilson
Preventive Services of Child Death Review Team
Wayne County
Phone: 570-253-9200
Web site: none
County Suicide Prevention Resources:
Training for school, medical, law enforcement and corrections personnel
Parent education
Student education
Substance abuse prevention
Media guidelines for suicide coverage
Statistics being gathered based on surveys of school-age youth; the surveys address issues surrounding suicide as well as depression. The Student Assistance Program team has begun using the Gun Violence Prevention Workbook.
County Screening for Suicide Risk Activities:
Student Assistance Program (screening by mental health liaisons)
Community screening
Screening in physicians' offices
County Mental Health Resources:
*Inpatient unit: none in county, but contracts with Northwestern Human services to provide crisis services
*School-based mental health services: Northwestern Human Services
Support group: Wayne Memorial Hospital
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.
