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PITTSFIELD, Mass.— The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Berkshire County announced that Melissa Helm has joined the organization as Executive...

PITTSFIELD — After her son’s death, Peggy Morse made it her mission to create a space for fellow suicide loss survivors to gather, grieve and honor the lives of their loved ones. When her son died by suicide in the late ‘90s, there were no local support groups to lean into, Morse said. She’d drive more than an hour to East Longmeadow, where she found a community of survivors who lost loved ones to suicide, also. But Morse — who was honored earlier this year for her decades of work in the field of suicide prevention and healing from loss â€” knew there were others ...