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Milwaukie leaders and health partners highlight suicide prevention, 988 and trainings after remembrance
Summary
City leaders, police and Clackamas County presenters urged use of the 988 crisis line, described behavioral‑health unit activity and announced combined naloxone and suicide‑prevention trainings at the Ledding Library, following a remembrance for two recently deceased former officials.
Mayor Lisa Beatty opened the meeting with a remembrance of two former local officials and then turned the floor over to police and public‑health partners leading the city’s suicide‑prevention work.
A Milwaukie Police Department behavioral health unit (BHU) and county public‑health staff described recent activity and resources aimed at reducing suicide and connecting people to care. Police Captain Tony Chiragino said that in April the department and its BHU made eight referrals to stabilization services — four by law enforcement and four by the BHU — and that the BHU recorded…
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