Using Local Data to Reduce Suicide Death

• By: Barbara Bernstein, PhD, MPH The Mental Health Association of Westchester Michael Orth, MSW Westchester County Department of Community Mental Health
• October 1st, 2020
• data, death, fall 2020 issue, staff training, statistics, suicide
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Suicide is often considered to be the most preventable cause of death. Yet, recent years have seen steadily rising numbers of loss to suicide in the United States. This rise has occurred despite the cultural shift that has allowed the fact of suicide to come “out of the closet;” despite the...