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  • An active coalition of residents, community groups, health care providers, schools and educators, elected officials, clergy, law enforcement and criminal justice agencies, unions, employers, and others working together to maintain community-wide awareness of suicde in Delaware County.

 

  •  A comprehensive, accessible, evidence-based system of suicide prevention, crisis intervention, and postvention services (for both suicide attempters and those left to mourn completers) in Delaware County.

 

  • The elimination of ignorance about suicide, indifference towards those who become suicidal, and insensitivity towards those bereaved by a suicide.