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Contact Information:
Renee Dadey
CASP Coordinator/Co-Chairperson, Suicide Prevention Task Force
40 N. Pennsylvania Ave.
Greensburg, PA 15601
Phone: 724-830-3617
County Suicide Prevention Task Force:
Laurie Barnett Levine/ Renee Dadey
Co-Chairpersons
409 Coulter Ave (Laurie)
Greensburg, PA 15601
Phone: 724-834-6351
Task force meets quarterly, addresses suicide prevention across the lifespan, increases awareness that suicide is a national public health problem, and works to reduce the stigma associated with mental illness
Web site: none
County Suicide Prevention Resources:
Student education
Substance abuse prevention
Annual suicide prevention 5K walk, and annual suicide prevention conference
County Screening for Suicide Prevention Activities:
Student Assistance Program (screening by mental health liaisons who are dually trained in mental health and substance abuse)
County Mental Health Resources:
*Inpatient psychiatric unit: Excela Hospital (Latrobe)
*Outpatient mental health services for youth at risk for suicide: Excela Hospital (Westmoreland and Latrobe)
*School-based mental health services: Excela Health, Family Services of Western Pennsylvania, Ligonier Valley Learning Centers
*Support group: LOSS (Loved Ones Stolen by Suicide), meets first Tuesday of every month, 6:30-8:30 p.m., contact person Beth Crofutt at brcofutt@mhawc.org; Mental Health America of Westmoreland County, 409 Coulter Ave., Greensburg
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.
