SNOW HILL – The Worcester County Health Department, in conjunction with other health providers in the tri-county area, received a state grant in recent months to reduce and prevent suicide.
Jackie Ward, health planner with the Worcester County Health Department, said the health department acted as a facilitator for the Lower Eastern Shore Suicide Prevention Coalition (LESSPC), a group which the agency is a part of, to apply for grant money from the Rural Maryland Council, a state agency that addresses the needs of agrarian communities.
The LESSPC, a group of health providers with a common goal of reducing and preventing suicide in the Lower Shore, will use the $28,000 in grant money to fund six behavioral health trainings, including safeTALK, Mental Health First Aid, Youth Mental Health First Aid, Applied Suicide Intervention Skills and a pilot program entitled Signs of Suicide Prevention Program, which will educate middle school students in Worcester County about suicide.
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2 comments:
Although noble in cause, this is nothing more than Workfare. Simply money stolen from tax payers and redistributed to a few. This is a perfect example of the programs leftists and progressives dream up to "help" themselves under the guise of helping others so they can justify it and impune and malign anyone that complains about growing Government.. Our society can not afford programs like this and many others as our infrastructure crumbles and seniors/veterans suffer.
gotta stop the drugs to prevent suicide.
you don't, you won't.
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