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September is Suicide Prevention Awareness Month
BY MELISSA PATRICK KY HEALTH NEWS This story discusses suicide. If you or someone you know is contemplating suicide, please call or text the National Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988. September is National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, a time to raise awareness about suicide and educate the public on how to help prevent it.
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Veterans’ advocates tell legislators they need help to prevent veteran suicide
Kentucky loses about 118 veterans to suicide per year This story deals with suicide. If you or someone you know is contemplating suicide, please call or text the National Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988. BY MELISSA PATRICK KENTUCKY HEALTH NEWS The legislature’s Interim Joint Committee on Veterans, Military Affairs and Public Protection spent over
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Calls up 26% since 988 launched in July
BY MELISSA PATRICKKENTUCKY HEALTH NEWS In the six months since the new, easy-to-remember 988 suicide and crisis lifeline launched, calls have increased 26%, Gov. Andy Beshear said Thursday. Beshear said at his regular weekly news conference that the “mental health version of 911” is designed to connect people in a mental health emergency with someone
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Youth suicide rates are higher where mental-health providers are scarce, study of all U.S. counties says
All but three in Kentucky rated short BY MELISSA PATRICKKENTUCKY HEALTH NEWS Counties that have shortages of mental-health providers tend to have seen their rates of youth suicide increase in recent years, a study has found. The study, published in JAMA Pediatrics, found that after adjusting for demographic and socioeconomic characteristics, counties with a mental-health
