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Resident urges action on suicide prevention, highlights 741741 crisis text line for youth
Summary
A Brookings resident told commissioners Curry County’s suicide rate is high and urged support for the 741741 crisis text line, noting that 76% of its users are youth and that it includes AI-enabled triage features for emoji-heavy messages.
At the Sept. 16 Curry County meeting, Brookings resident Gordon Clay urged commissioners to make suicide prevention a higher priority and highlighted local suicide statistics and crisis-text resources.
Clay said that as of July the county had recorded five suicides this year and that, on a per-capita basis, Curry County ranked fifth in the state…
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