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San Diego County Suicide Prevention Council releases 2024 community report and action-plan update
Summary
The San Diego County Suicide Prevention Council and partners announced the public release of the SPC Community Report 2024 and the Suicide Prevention Action Plan (SPAP) 2024 update, highlighting a 12% decrease in annual suicide deaths since 2019 but recent increases among specific groups and new countywide prevention activities.
San Diego County officials and community partners onstage at a press conference announced the public release of the Suicide Prevention Council (SPC) Community Report 2024 and the Suicide Prevention Action Plan (SPAP) 2024 update, saying the reports are tools for communitywide prevention work.
The SPAP 2024 update and the SPC report, presenters said, summarize 10 years of county data and outline strategies to reduce suicide across San Diego County. "In 2023, there were 363 suicide deaths among San Diego County residents," Dr. Luke Bergman, behavioral health services director for the County of San Diego, said. "This represents an overall 12% decrease compared to 5 years prior in 2019 when 460 people died in our county as a result of suicide."
The reports matter because they combine mortality and near-real-time clinical data, identify populations with rising suicide risk, and list prevention strategies and trainings countywide. The SPC presentation emphasized that while overall deaths have fallen compared with 2019, recent years show increases in certain groups that require focused…
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