Apr 14, 2021
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First Federal of Northern Michigan Legacy Foundation recently presented a $1,500 check to Northeast Michigan Community Partnership, Inc. (Partners in Prevention) as one of their first quarter grant recipients. The $1,500 will be used toward Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) workshops. Pictured from left to right are Kathy Brown, FFNM Legacy Foundation secretary, and Mary Schalk, Partners in Prevention program director.
ALPENA First Federal of Northern Michigan Legacy Foundation recently presented a $1,500 check to Northeast Michigan Community Partnership, Inc. (Partners in Prevention) as one of their first quarter grant recipients. The $1,500 will be used toward Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) workshops. Pictured from left to right are Kathy Brown, FFNM Legacy Foundation secretary, and Mary Schalk, Partners in Prevention program director.
Mar 16, 2021
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Alcona Historical Society received a $2,972 Community Impact Grant for the Sprucing Up Bailey School project.
ALPENA The Community Foundation for Northeast Michigan recently awarded a new round of community grants covering a four-county area that includes Alcona, Alpena, Montmorency and Presque Isle counties.
The CFNEM Board of Trustees recently approved 46 new grants totaling $106,515. Of that amount, $84,289 was awarded in Community Impact Grants, and $22,226 was awarded in grants from the Northeast Michigan Youth Advisory Council.
New Community Impact Grants are:
¯ Alcona Community Schools $1,000 for the Alcona Wrestling program;
¯ Alcona Community Schools $3,000 for the Elementary School Outdoor Classroom;
¯ Alcona County Commission on Aging $1,500 for the Alcona County Commission on Aging Technology Loan Center;
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There are fears that suicides have risen again during 2020, but official data is not yet available CAMPAIGNERS are calling for radical action on suicide and access to counselling to combat a spiralling mental health crisis. Billy Watson, chief executive of the charity SAMH, said progress on mental health services in Scotland has just not been good enough, and by some distance . The charity is today launching a manifesto, based on feedback from 2,500 people, setting out its priorities for the next Scottish parliamentary term. It notes that despite a £4 million investment to recruit an additional 80 Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) workers, young people are still waiting more two months on average to be seen, with one in five people referred to the service rejected.
New Wyoming suicide prevention hotline already saving lives
By NIKI KOTTMANNFebruary 6, 2021 GMT
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) Bernice Hazucha’s goal is to ensure every Wyomingite in crisis gets their call answered.
The suicidologist, who moved from New York to Wyoming with her husband, Kevin, in September 2018, has 20 years of experience working as a suicide intervention counselor for the Dutchess County Department of Behavioral Health. Now, she serves as the suicide prevention lifeline director at the Central Wyoming Counseling Center in Casper – the home of Wyoming’s first local suicide prevention call center.
Until the center opened Aug. 11, Wyoming was the only state without its own call center for those in crisis. This meant Wyomingites with suicidal thoughts and/or specific plans to end their life had to call the national number and hope they were successfully reconnected to the closest state’s center, risking long wait times in a situation when every second matters.