09/10/2025
Today is World Su***de Prevention Day, which has a lot of meaning to nearly everyone who works and receives treatment at SPVMHC in one way or another. We are all directly impacted by this preventable action, some of us impacted for life.
The state of Ohio saw its first decline in su***de deaths in three years in 2023 – the first full year that the 988 Su***de and Crisis Line existed.
However, it remained the 11th leading cause of death in the United States, amounting to around one death every 11 minutes nationally.
Our Crisis Center staff at SPVMHC, which is now led by Madison Joseph, regularly tackles 988 hotline calls for 8 counties and serves well above 10,000 callers annually. Each one of our Crisis Center staff has on-the-job training taking on a plethora of calls and walk-ins, with suicidal ideation/intent. Regardless of the severity of the situation, the Crisis Center staff is more than willing to serve those in need.
The Crisis Center is open 24/7/365 for calls or walk-ins to talk to either one of our crisis workers or an on-call therapist at no cost.
We appreciate everything that our crisis workers do for our community!
