Iowa’s Department of Public Health has received a federal grant to expand suicide prevention efforts in all 99 counties. The department’s Suicide Prevention Director, Pat McGovern, says the money will be used to implement a program.
McGovern says hospitals are using the system and this will allow them to expand it to other areas, such as substance abuse providers.
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He says “Suicide Safe” means making it so that everyone is able to be open and share their feelings about what is happening.
The federal grant is three-point-five million dollars and is for five years. McGovern says they will work with Foundation Two (Foundation2) in Cedar Rapids to administer the program.
