988 Suicide and Crisis Prevention Lifeline goes live. Still, half of US counties have no access, including those with the highest suicide rates, a timely new analysis shows. 988Lifeline suicideprevention
and Mental Health Services Administration survey of public and private healthcare facilities, the researchers assessed county-level access to crisis intervention teams in 2015 and 2020.
Although the net number of counties with access to a CIT did not change, about 9% of counties lost access, and, separately, 9% gained access in 2020. "Additionally, the designation of 988 provides opportunities for federal and state grants to support implementation. For example, the federal government awarded $15 million to 20 state Medicaid agencies in December 2021 to support planning the development community-based mobile crisis intervention services," said Newton.In an invited commentary, Roy H.
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