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Churchill County unveils 2024 Behavioral Health and Suicide Prevention plan; Turning Point outlines three priorities
Summary
Consultants from Turning Point presented a countywide suicide prevention plan calling for strengthened agency collaboration, wider community communication about mental health, and a fully resourced service system; Turning Point and county staff outlined next steps and working groups.
Turning Point consultants presented the Churchill County Behavioral Health and Suicide Prevention Plan 2024 to the Board of County Commissioners, saying the plan focuses on prevention, intervention and postvention and recommends three priorities for the next five years.
Shannon Ernst, Churchill County Social Services, said the county sought outside help after local leaders raised concerns about an increase in suicidal ideation and attempts. "We were talking about, really, the increase of suicide ideations and attempts within our community," Ernst said, and described a funding mix of county, school district and state Division of Public and Behavioral Health (DPBH) resources used to contract Turning Point.
Jennifer McClendon of Turning Point, the consultant team, described the…
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