Initiatives
Initiatives are areas of special interest locally or statewide, in which the Dauphin County Mental Health system establishes a committee, task force, or work group to learn more about, review information about, or use to make system changes and improvements. Many of the initiatives also involve the stakeholders identified in Section E. Click on the document you are interested in reviewing:
Residential Booklet: Resources When Your Child is in Residential Services - Booklet 2014-2015
Suicide Prevention Resouce Guide:
This guide was created with funding provided by the Pennsylvania Department of Health’s Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grant and is organized based on strategies outlined in the United States Center for Disease Control’s Suicide Prevention: Resource for Action which can be viewed in its entirety here: Suicide prevention resource for action: a compilation of the best available evidence. This guide includes resources at the county, state, and national levels. Most resources have websites where you can apply or find more information. Please hold down the “CTRL” button on your keyboard while clicking the blue, underlined word (such as COMPASS) and you will be automatically directed to the website.