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Board accepts updated Santa Cruz County suicide‑prevention strategic plan after data briefing
Summary
Supervisors unanimously accepted an updated suicide prevention strategic plan summarizing five strategic aims, new grant‑funded trainings and local data showing a rise in county suicide rate from 13 to 17.1 per 100,000 (2019→2023). Staff will continue coordinating trainings and expand committee representation.
The Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors unanimously accepted an updated county Suicide Prevention Strategic Plan and heard staff outline why the update was needed after recent local trends.
Karen Curran, Interim Behavioral Health Director, told the board county suicide rates rose from 13 per 100,000 in 2021 to 17.1 per 100,000 in 2023. Staff said that two state and federal grants — SAMHSA’s Building Hope and Safety and a California Department of Public…
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