The state of Pennsylvania has unveiled a new tool designed to support people in times of crisis.
Department of Human Services Secretary Teresa Miller said the statewide Suicide Prevention Task Force will be a combined effort of the departments of Aging, Human Services, Drug and Alcohol Programs, Health, Military and Veterans Affairs, Education, Corrections, and Transportation as well as the Pennsylvania State Police and the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency.
The task force will work with lawmakers and other agencies to develop a new suicide prevention plan that will increase awareness of resources available to people in crisis as well as reduce stigma associated with mental illness.
Rates of suicide in Pennsylvania have increased by 34 percent since 1999 with over half of the people who die as a result of suicide having no known mental health condition.
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