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Calls have not stopped at the state crisis line run by Mental Health of America in Greenville, South Carolina. Their team of trained volunteers has handled more than 30,000 calls from people across the state in crisis or seeking help managing everyday stress and anxiety over the past year.
Calls are lasting longer and are coming in from people of all ages.
“The stress levels of our callers are extremely high,” said Susan Smyre Haire, the director of community engagement and development at the organization. Haire expects that call volume “to increase exponentially.”
The call center received grant funding from Vibrant Emotional Health, the nonprofit administrator of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, to expand services from city to state as the pandemic took hold last year.
Calls have not stopped at the state crisis line run by Mental Health of America in Greenville, South Carolina. Their team of trained volunteers has handled more than 30,000 calls from people across the state in crisis or seeking help managing everyday stress and anxiety over the past year.
Calls are lasting longer and are coming in from people of all ages.
“The stress levels of our callers are extremely high,” said Susan Smyre Haire, the director of community engagement and development at the organization. Haire expects that call volume “to increase exponentially.”
The call center received grant funding from Vibrant Emotional Health, the nonprofit administrator of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, to expand services from city to state as the pandemic took hold last year.
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Lauderdale County Sheriffâs Department The identities of four people found dead at two different homes in Lauderdale County on Tuesday have been released.Â
Deputies were called to do a welfare check at the homes after the individuals didn t show up for work, according to Lauderdale County Sheriffâs Department Chief Deputy Ward Calhoun.
The bodies of April Fulton Tucker, 39, and Bryce Fisher Tucker, 14, were found inside a home on Jeffery Acres Road around 1 p.m., Calhoun said. A short time later, the body of Beverly Kaiser Fulton, 64, was found in a shed at the home, Calhoun said.
Fulton was the mother of April Fulton Tucker and the grandmother of Bryce Fisher Tucker, he said. The family lived in the home, he said.Â