D&E Counseling Center offers a depression awareness/suicide prevention program to schools in

D&E Counseling Center offers a depression awareness/suicide prevention program to schools in Mahoning County. The program offers a general depression-awareness education as well as a screening for depression. A breakdown for the two-year-old program shows:

2006-07

2,111 children educated on depression.

754 children screened for depression.

65 children referred for outpatient counseling.

2007-08 (estimated)

3,379 children educated on depression.

1,273 children screened for depression.

104 children referred for outpatient counseling.

Source: D&E Counseling Center