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County expands suicide-prevention trainings, school-based mental-health satellites after provider closure
Summary
County mental-health staff described expanded suicide-prevention and recovery-month outreach, short-form trainings for schools, reopening of clinic satellites in local schools and a pending provider application to replace closed Catholic Charities treatment services.
At a meeting of the Orange County Health and Mental Health Committee, county mental-health staff reported a series of suicide-prevention and recovery-month activities, expansion of school-based satellite services and efforts to replace a youth substance-use treatment program that closed after Catholic Charities ended services.
County mental-health staff said the department is running a joint social-media awareness campaign with the county executive’s office, using messaging based on the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration toolkit. The department is also sponsoring evidence-based trainings: QPR (Question, Persuade, Refer) sessions that can be…
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