Alameda County Crisis Support Services is making strides in suicide prevention developing innovative programs—a teen text line and an older men’s support group—tailored to the two populations most at risk: youth and elderly men.
“Our county is very forward and committed to suicide prevention,” says Nancy Salamy, executive director of the support services, which is one of 11 credited crisis centers in California, a state with the eighth lowest suicide rate in the nation.
The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention’s survey, conducted in August, painted a mixed picture of attitudes toward mental health and suicide awareness. Need for care is high: half of respondents said they believe they have a mental health issue, while 62 percent said they have never received mental health treatment.
[For more of this story, written by Isara Krieger, go to https://oaklandnorth.net/2015/...groups-most-at-risk/]
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