$4.1 million state grant will be used to focus on identifying and acting on early warning signs of self-harm
San Diego will be among a handful of counties statewide to test a new suicide-prevention program that takes a public health approach to identifying and helping those who have attempted to harm themselves., sponsored by the California Health and Human Services Agency, would require reporting of suicide and attempted suicide using hospital and other systems created to track infectious disease.
San Diego County, according to officials, was invited to participate in the program because it had the second-highest youth suicide rate recorded for 2018-2020. Other regions approached to participate include Alameda, El Dorado, Humboldt, Kern, Los Angeles, Riverside, Sacramento, San Joaquin and Solano counties.
But the model envisioned by the state program, he said, could help tie in those same resources while kids and young adults are still in hospital emergency departments.
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