Communications Workgroup

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"Community Education and Information" and "Improved Media Coverage and Public Dialogue through Communication Best Practices" are the second and third strategies recommended in the first-ever county-wide Strategic Plan for Suicide Prevention approved by the Santa Clara County (SCC) Board of Supervisors in August 2010. The primary objective of Communications Workgroup is to:

• Plan and implement community education & information Campaign related to suicide prevention; and
• Educate Media to more effective reporting on suicides; and
• Develop/select a paradigm-changing suicide prevention message.

Newsletters

The suicide prevention program released its first Suicide Prevention Newsletter in April 2011. If you would like to be a part of SCC suicide prevention community, and receive newsletters/periodic emails from us, click here to send us an email.

Meetings

The communications workgroup will meet once in two months for two hours. The first meeting of this workgroup is expected in September, 2011. For agenda and materials discussed in the workgroup meetings, please see below:

• Communication Workgroup Charter
• Communication Workgroup Extract from Suicide Prevention Plan