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Suicide Prevention Initiative Focuses On People Of Color

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Paul Tuthill
Published October 16, 2019 at 11:09 AM EDT

     A new initiative in Massachusetts is trying to reduce suicides among people of color.

             The project by the Massachusetts Coalition for Suicide Prevention is aimed at getting mental health and community organizations to review their approaches to people of color.

     WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill spoke with Jennifer Kelliher, Managing Director of the organization.
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The record-setting tenure of Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno. The 2011 tornado and its recovery that remade the largest city in Western Massachusetts. The fallout from the deadly COVID outbreak at the Holyoke Soldiers Home. Those are just a few of the thousands and thousands of stories WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill has covered for WAMC in his nearly 17 years with the station.
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