Suicide Prevention and Response: Fostering Trust and Safety in Vulnerable Communities

• By: James Chavez, LCSW Dani York, LCAT, RDT Services for the UnderServed (S:US)
• January 14th, 2025
• community, crisis intervention, mental health, peer support, social determinants of health, stigma, suicide, suicide prevention, trauma-informed care, Winter 2025 Issue
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Suicide carries grief and mourning and encompasses assumptions, histories, and fantasies. It holds the dialectic of abbreviated narratives and hope-filled storylines for those who survive. 2022 U.S. data from the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) indicates that 1.6 million adults...