Santa Clara County leaders are walking back a portion of proposed budget cuts to keep a pioneering suicide prevention program that’s contributed to one of the lowest death rates in all of California. At a Monday budget hearing, the Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to save two positions from being cut from the county program that operates suicide and crisis hotlines, trains community members to identify and help people in crisis, shapes policy and works with schools on prevention. The program, created in 2010, has been credited for helping bring Santa Clara County death by suicide rates to one of…
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