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2023 City of Charleston Health and Wellness Advisory Committee Meeting 3/01/2023
A
We're
live
Kevin
all
right,
great
well!
Thank
you.
All.
Everyone
for
joining
us
I'd
like
to
call
to
order
the
meeting
of
the
health
and
wellness
advisory
committee
for
this
beautiful
March
1st
2023
day.
I
want
to
thank
you
for
taking
your
time
to
be
with
us
this
morning
and
know
that
all
of
you
are
very
busy
and
we
thank
you
for
all
that
you
do
in
our
community
to
make
you
know
the
City
of
Charleston
and
our
residents
healthier
and
and
better
informed.
So
thank
you
very
much
for
all
that
you
do.
A
Do
you
want
to
mention
that
Lisa
Burbage
Nick
Osborne,
oh
shoot?
There
was
one
other
said
they
couldn't
be:
Lisa,
Burbage,
okay,
Lisa,
Lisa,
Nick
and
and
Kimbo
okay,
Kimbo
ye,
that's
right.
They
all
sent
their
apologies
for
not
being
able
to
make
it,
but
they
had
other
commitments
this
morning
and
they
did
wish
they
could
be
here
so
yeah
great
day
today.
You
know
I
walk
my
dog
every
morning
before
work,
and
it
was
a
perfect
morning.
A
A
We
have
about
4
500
children
participating
across
all
our
Parks,
so
exciting
time
for
our
parks
and
our
recreation
department
and,
of
course,
the
Charleston
food
and
wine
festivals
kicks
off
tonight
and
runs
throughout
the
weekend
and
Paul
we've
got
exactly
one
month
from
today.
We'll
have
the
Cooper
River,
Bridge,
Run,
so
I
know
you're
getting
busy
and
gearing
up
as
well.
So
so
anyway,
exciting
times
and
again,
I
appreciate
all
that.
A
B
B
You
said
minutes,
yes,
so
I
just
went
back
in
and
put
the
names
in
of
the
people
that
she
had
identified.
I
I
had
let
them
out
and
at
the
end,
I
also
included.
Dr
Powers
presentation
from
federal
health
care
and
I
will
send
those
updates
to
you.
But
those
are
the
changes
I
needed
to
make
on
the
the
minutes.
A
E
E
A
F
F
Those
begin
today
actually
and
there
again
across
the
county
at
several
different
School
locations
generally
starting
either
at
10
A.M
or
noon
going
through
six
or
seven
o'clock
at
night.
With
weekend,
testing
available
at
West
Ashley
center
for
advanced
studies
on
Saturdays
and
Burke
High
School
downtown
on
Sundays,
so
I'll
be
sure
to
drop
that
in
the
link
as
well.
Additionally,
we
have
kept
up
with
our
covid-19
dashboard
this
year.
F
That
is
available
on
our
website
tracking
Kate
of
reported
cases
at
our
schools
and
Central
offices,
and
we
have
been
seeing
a
trend
downward
of
reported
cases,
so
that
information
is
available
as
well
other
than
that
our
academic
calendar
options
for
public
input
were
released
this
morning
for
the
2023-2024
school
year.
You
have
two
options:
option,
A
and
B,
and
there
is
a
comparison
document
as
well.
F
That
kind
of
identifies
some
of
the
differences,
but,
generally
speaking,
school
would
start
Wednesday
August
23rd,
and
that
is
because
in
the
state
of
South
Carolina
there
is
a
law
that
prohibits
public
schools
from
starting
before
the
third
Monday
in
August.
There
are
some
schools
across
the
state
that
have
applied
for
a
modified
year-round
calendar
and
received
exemptions
to
where
they
can
change
some
of
those
things
whether
they're
they're
staying
in
school
all
year
and
having
bigger
chunks
of
breaks
or
they're
just
adjusting
their
start
and
end
times.
F
But
those
options
are
available
on
our
website
and
there
is
a
difference
in
the
spring
breaks
between
the
two
options,
with
tentative
alignment
with
the
neighboring
counties
depending
on
which
option
is
there?
So
we
encourage
all
of
our
stakeholders
to
come
on
the
website
between
today,
the
first
through
March
14th
and
provide
feedback
and
input
and
then,
ultimately,
all
of
that
input
will
go
to
our
Board
of
Trustees
for
their
regular
meeting
on
March
27th,
where
they
tentatively
will
approve
a
final
option.
A
G
I'm
also
enjoying
the
beautiful
weather
and
trying
to
get
my
exercise
in
before
a
day
full
of
meetings,
including
this
one.
Yes,
I
did
send
I
think
to
the
group.
Hopefully,
y'all
received
the
invitations
for
our
South
Carolina
healthy
business
challenge
spring
seminars,
the
one
that's
in
the
low
country,
is
March
15th
at
the
harbor
Club.
So
we
encourage
everyone
to
come
out
as
a
reminder.
It
is
free
through
our
generous
sponsors,
Blue
Cross,
Blue
Shield
of
South,
Carolina
and
Gallagher.
G
G
One
of
the
programs
that
we
support
is
Adventure
out,
so
we
have
monthly
free
yoga
in
the
park.
This
program
was
started
at
MUSC
and
the
healthy
business
challenge
continues
to
fund
it.
So
our
Wellness
Center
yoga
instructor
Gail
Corbett,
will
be
in
the
gazebo
at
Hampton
Park
on
March
11th
at
nine
o'clock
and
again
that's
free
for
all
community
members
to
come
out
and
enjoy
and
then
just
kind
of
a
heads
up.
G
But
we
are
finalizing
the
the
daily
activities
and
in
particular
for
this
group
we
help
put
on
a
series
of
events
in
Charleston
called
The
Adventure
out
weekend.
So
as
the
Expedition
team
gets
into
the
Low
Country,
we
look
for
partners
that
would
like
to
host
events
that
encourage
being
outdoors
green
exercise,
green
Health
sustainability,
Community
engagement,
all
the
things
that
we
as
a
committee
are
committed
to
doing
so.
I
would
just
encourage
you
if
you
have
some
ideas,
so
please
reach
out
to
me
because
we're
we're
kind
of
trying
to
finalize
that.
G
Well,
we
have
a
small
core
Expedition
team,
but
many
of
the
days
are
open
to
the
public,
so
in
April
we'll
publish
the
field
guide
for
the
entire
month,
and
so
folks
can
you
know,
go
through
it
and
see
which
ones
are
open
kind
of
follow
us
along
and
then
we
also
have
a
virtual
fitness
challenge
that
is
going
on
right
now.
So
if
anyone
comes
to
our
healthy
business
seminars,
they
will
get
a
free
access
to
that
tool
as
well.
A
I
We
recently
hosted
a
a
panel
with
several
of
our
area
Mayors,
where
we
talked
about
one
of
the
tools
that
we
have
at
Trident:
United
Way,
it's
a
2-1-1
helpline
that
is
available,
24
7
for
anybody
who
is
in
need
of
any
services,
so
I
just
want
to
put
in
a
little
plug
to
remind
folks
that
that
that
resource
is
available
to
anybody.
We
get
a
lot
of
data
on
the
back
end
about
the
different
calls
that
folks
are
making
who
are
in
need
of.
I
You
know,
assistance
from
from
one
thing
to
to
another,
and
so
we
use
that
data
to
put
together
reports
on
a
pretty
regular
basis.
If
that
is
something
that
this
group
would
like,
we
can
package
that
and
put
it
together,
so
that
folks,
on
this
call
can
see
you
know
what
the
major
calls
that
folks
are
getting
in
their
specific
region.
So
just
wanted
to
put
that
plug
in
that
data
is
available
available
and
I'm
happy
to
make
the
connection
to
get
that
out
to
folks.
I
A
G
H
Paul
weeder
good
morning,
pray
about
that.
It
took
me
a
second
to
to
come
off
mute,
but
no
good
morning
to
everyone
always
glad
to
be
on
the
call
and
I
hope
everyone
has.
My
phone
number
or
email
available
always
exciting
to
hear
about
the
initiatives
happening
in
our
community.
Tap
me
on
the
shoulder
at
any
time,
something
that
you
think
that
we
should
be
doing
and
showing
to
viewers,
and
readers
and
listeners
on
air
always
happy
to
get
those
stories
done.
So
thank
you
for
an
offer
with
this
opportunity.
B
Then
people
can
start
learning
where
to
drop
them
off
and
participate
in
them.
But
but
those
are
open.
I'll
send
that
those
emails
back
out
to
you
that
the
mayor
put
in
his
press
releases
and
then
starting
this
March,
the
8th
and
or
March
the
4th,
the
11th,
18th
and
25th
there'll
be
a
limited
Farmers
Market
at
Marion
square
and
then
the
real
farmer's
market
full
pledged
will
start
right.
B
After
the
Bridge
Run
on
March
the
8th
and
continue
through
November,
the
25th
and
the
West
Ashley
one
will
start
April
the
19th
at
Ackerman
Park,
so
I
just
want
to
make
sure
you
had
that
information
and
knowing
those
kind
of
things
are
coming
up.
There's
a
there's
also
something
coming
up
from
our
neighborhood
group:
the
division
that
is
going
to
be
doing
a
community
cleanup.
B
They
do
this
every
quarter,
I
believe,
but
this
next
one
is
going
to
be
in
the
Ardmore
area
and
they're
going
to
meet
at
The,
Pink
House
right
on
them
on
Mulberry,
Street
and
and
doing
neighborhood
cleanup
where
a
lot
of
city
employees
will
be
engaged
with
they're,
asking
neighborhoods
and
neighbors
and
friends
who
would
like
to
come
out
and
join
them,
that
that
would
be
a
big
city-wide
cleanup
going
on,
and
the
last
thing
is
I
wanted
to
remind
everybody
that
city
has
a
newsletter.
That's
called
Hey
Charleston.
B
It
comes
out
each
Friday
and
I'll.
Send
you
this
link
here.
I
had
the
newsletter
pulled
up
and
I
accidentally
knocked
it
off
the
screen
a
minute
ago,
but
that's
the
sort
of
if
you
want
to
know
what's
going
on
in
Charleston,
or
you
want
to
pass
your
programs
on
to
what
to
what's
available
in
Charleston
you'll
see
this
newsletter
that
comes
out
each
each
Friday.
It's
just
one
of
the
most
valuable
resource
tools.
B
I
think
the
city
has
to
offer
right
now
for
for
getting
information
out
so
I'll
send
you
that
link
and
just
encourage
you
to
if
you
haven't
signed
up
to
sign
up
for
it,
because
I
I
think
it's
well
worth
the
the
opportunity
and
again
April
1st
says
Kevin
had
said:
is
our
Bridge
Run?
The
Expo
is
on
Thursday
and
Friday
over
at
at
the
North,
the
Charleston
area,
Convention
Center
in
North
Charleston,
and
then
we're
expecting
somewhere
between
that
28
to
30
000
this
year.
B
We're
still
building
our
numbers
back
after
covid
and
and
hope
to
slowly
get
back
to
where
we
were
and
and
exceed
them
in
the
future.
So,
look
for
a
big
event
and
and
let's
hope
for
good
weather
and-
and
nobody
gets
overheated
too
much
so
I'm
looking
forward
to
to
to
seeing
everybody
in
any
of
those
events
and
just
encourage
you
to
to
just
be
mindful,
there's
a
lot
out
there.
That's
for
us
to
do
in
Charleston
and
as
as
Susan's
doing
her
walk
today,
that's
a
great
chance.
B
Yeah
I
was
at
an
event
on
the
February
11th
that
I
met
the
group.
That's
doing
the
the
walk
in
the
park
with
a
Docker
doc
walk
in
the
park,
and
they
do
that
every
Saturday
morning
I
think
it's
from
nine
to
ten,
but
they
they
pair
a
a
dock
up
with
the
people
walking
and
they
just
have
a
conversation.
It's
free
to
everybody
and
that's
another
one
that
we'll
we'll
put
out
there
just
make
sure
everybody's
aware
of
what's
going
on
with
it.
But
it's
a
just.
B
A
Thank
you
Paul
appreciate
that
any
questions
for
Paul,
if
you
don't
receive
that
hey
Charleston
email
I,
will
tell
you
that
I
I
enjoy
seeing
it
looking
through
it.
It's
a
good
email.
If
you
don't
get
it
I
would
I
would
also
recommend
that
you
subscribe
to
it.
So
you
can
see
kind
of
some
of
the
things
that's
going
on
in
this
in
and
around
the
city
of
Charleston.
So
but
anyway,
I'm
do
see
that
Meredith
berlinski
joined
us
from
Roper
Meredith,
not
to
put
you
on
the
spot.
J
A
Right,
thank
you.
Mary
appreciate
that
all
right,
I
do
see
some
some
things
in
the
chat,
so
just
wanted
to
bring
your
attention
to
that
some
different
things
from
from
Tracy
and
Maggie
and
and
Paul
so
just
want
to
bring
your
attention.
So
you
can
see
those
those
links
and
information
there.
So
so
we're
gonna
hear
from
Katie
Richardson
a
little
bit
later.
A
I,
don't
know
if
you
had
anything
outside
of
that,
but
all
right
and
if
not
do
want
to
congratulate
Jennifer
Robert.
She
is
now
Jennifer
brush.
She
has
gotten
married
and
changed
her
name.
So
congratulations
to
Jennifer
and
I'm
going
to
call
on
her
now
for
our
mental
health
update.
If
you
would
please.
D
Good
morning,
everyone
I've
got
Paul
asked
me
to
try
to
find
some
data
on
adolescents
and
kids
and
and
in
that
I've
got
a
whole
lot
of
other
data,
so
I
wanted
to
I
mean
I
wanna.
It's
really
interesting
information,
but
it's
going
to
be
hard
to
be
interesting
to
show
you
a
million
slides
but
I'm
gonna.
Do
it
it's
it's!
D
It's
suicide
data
that
we
do
here
in
our
office
of
Suicide
Prevention,
and
we
we
team
up
with
some
researchers
in
the
South
Carolina
communities
of
care
and
I
have
a
lot
of
updated
information.
It's
going
to
be
an
overwhelming
amount,
but
I
did
send
these
two
PowerPoints
to
Paul's
to
share
with
you
all
so
that
you
can
look
at
it
later.
It's
not
flowering
happy
as
your
intro
councilman
Chile,
because
we're
talking
about
suicide
but
yeah.
D
So
if
anybody
has
questions
this,
the
people
to
contact
about
more
information
about
all
this
information
is
is
on
these
slides
as
well.
But
I
do
have
one
other
update,
which
is
exciting.
So
I've
been
talking
about
our
crisis,
stabilization
Center
being
in
the
new
Social
Services
Hub,
and
we
were
waiting.
It
took
us
a
little
bit
to
get
it
re-licensed
as
a
crisis
stabilization
unit
that
did
happen.
D
We
have
a
few
staffing
issues,
so
we
couldn't
open
right
after
that
happened,
but
as
of
today,
we
are
reopened
and
it
is
a
10
bed
voluntary
facility
for
adults
who
are
having
a
mental
health
crisis.
You
can
stay
there
up
to
14
days.
The
average
person
stays
two
to
three
days
and
we
take
a
lot
of
people
from
the
emergency
departments.
D
It
is
the
jail
diversion
program,
also
in
a
hospital
diversion
program,
so
we'll
probably
be
putting
out
a
press
release
as
soon
as
we
open
in
a
few
more
days
making
sure
we
have
enough
staff
to
to
be
there,
but
it's
very
exciting.
It's
a
beautiful
unit
and
that's
really
good
news
for
us,
so
we
finally
got
it
back
open,
so
I'm
going
to
try
to
share
the
screen
here.
D
Is
a
combination
of
research
from
several
folks
I'm,
going
to
kind
of
slide
through
it
as
fast
as
I
can
to
try
to
stay
in
my
20
minutes?
So
some
some
overarching
key
points
that
came
out
of
this.
This
research
is
that
Charleston
County
ranked
ranks
second
in
South
Carolina
for
EMS
self-harm
calls
and
Border
2022..
D
Looking
at
these
charts
and
I'm
not
going
to
spend
too
much
time
on
a
lot
of
them,
because
there's
a
lot
of
information
here
this
chart
here,
just
to
kind
of
give
you
an
overview-
is
comparing
Charleston
with
South
Carolina
rates,
so,
as
you
can
see
like,
for
example,
in
the
mental
health
section
of
it,
it's
showing
that
South
Carolina
has
78
and
82
percent
for
Charleston
for
depressive
disorder.
This
is
a
lot
of
informations
and
I've
got
a
lot
more
to
show
you
so
I'm,
just
just
gonna
go
to
the
next
slide.
D
And
these
are
interesting
charts.
It
looks
a
lot
like
when
we're
looking
at
Food
deserts
and
we're
looking
at
other
areas
of
Charleston
that
that
you
know
do
struggle,
and
so
they
did.
Some
social
vulnerability
looks
at
the
Charleston
area
and
you
can
see
the
highest
is
in
the
darker
colors
of
blue.
D
They
looked
at
four
different
things.
This
is
overall
social
vulnerability.
This
is
a
person's
ability
to
prepare
and
respond
to
a
hazardous
event,
so
it
could
be
a
national
natural
disaster,
tornado
hurricanes
things
like
that.
These
next
four
are
looking
at
socioeconomic
status,
disability,
race,
ethnicity
and
language,
and
housing
and
transportation.
And
it's
you
know
a
lot
of
information.
You
could
probably
spend
three
hours
talking
about
these
charts,
but
as
we
we
usually
see
themes.
I
know.
This
group
looks
at
a
lot
of
these
type
of
charts.
I
know
Joey.
D
You
guys
put
together
a
lot
I'm
looking
at
Charleston,
and
they
tend
to
often
have
themes
of
our
areas
that
are
most
vulnerable,
so
they
looked
at
EMS
calls
so
that
what
they're
doing
is
looking
at
they.
They
call
it
the
data
from
all
of
the
emergency
rooms
and
try
to
put
it
all
together
for
us
as
a
state,
most
of
the
self-help
or
sorry
not
self-harm
calls
are
coming
from
the
black
and
African-American
communities.
D
You
can
see
I'm
sorry,
the
white
Community
I'm
reading
that
backwards
and
and
the
black
community
is
the
second
highest.
Mostly
they
don't
they.
They
made
some
comments
in
the
data
about
how
they
need
to
break
up
ethnicity
and
ethnicity,
better,
obviously,
because
if
you
say
not
Hispanic
or
Hispanic,
that's
not
really
a
good
way
to
look
at
that
this
information,
but
they
are
working
on
trying
to
get
more
details.
D
D
D
Okay
same
group,
looking
at
information
here,
it's
2022
data.
It's
most
recent
that
we
have
out
we're
going
to
look
at
several
different
things
and
this
one's
very
long
I'm
going
to
try
to
go
fast
through
it
in
the
52,
slides
but
again,
I,
just
I
hope.
If
you're
interested
in
looking
at
it
in
more
depth,
you
can
do
it
later.
D
D
D
D
H
D
D
They
don't
have
a
we
they're
not
eligible
to
be
committed
to
the
hospital
they
can
go
to
places
like
CSUS
and
I
know
that
we're
trying
to
get
several
more
open
throughout
the
state
and
open
throughout
the
country.
It's
part
of
the
whole
988
crisis
continue
with
care
for
folks,
because
you
know
our
our
numbers
are
high
and
so
is
the
rest
of
the
country
right
now
for
suicidal
ideation.
D
D
More
males
were
treated
than
females
and
there's
a
steady
increase
going
on
over
the
past
five
years
that
they've
found
from
looking
at
the
data
and
whites
have
the
highest
broad
number,
so
I'm
gonna.
You
can
move
on
to
the
next
slide,
because
you're
going
to
see
some
of
this
data
here,
attempt
rates,
kind
of
went
down
until
covet
happened,
and
obviously
it's
we've
talked
about
this
on.
This
call,
and
several
folks
here
have
kind
of
shared
information
about
that.
We
know
it's
been
kind
of
on
the
rise
since
covid
in
2020.
D
D
Again,
30
almost
30
000
visits
to
the
Eds.
For
this.
The
mental
health
trauma
rates
have
increased
almost
30
percent
in
the
past
three
or
four
years.
So
that's
going
up
too
and
then
every
19
minutes
somebody
is
treated
for
the
traumas
of
sexual
abuse
or
alcohol
or
drug
treatment
or
other
things
that
were
listed
kind
of
earlier
in
the
slideshow
I'm
gonna
I'm
gonna
skip
this
just
and
because
of
time.
So
all
right,
so
suicide
deaths.
Let's
show
some
more
charts,
so
we
have
16
per
10
000
in
2020.
D
So
males
clearly
die
by
Suicide
more
than
females
80
versus
20.,
and
that
actually
surprised
me
when
I
saw
that
I
know.
We
do
treat
a
lot
of
males
here,
but
it
does.
It
doesn't
seem
like
it's
a
80
20
difference
on
at
people
that
are
actually
that
do
die
by
Suicide
right.
You
can
see
whites
definitely
exceed
on
blacks
or
other
ethnicities,
with
86
percent
Dying
by
Suicide.
D
So
here's
some
numbers
that'll
kind
of
make
you
good
cross
side
with
all
the
colors,
but
you
can
look
at
2020
in
most
of
these
categories
of
age
groups,
it
the
numbers,
have
risen,
that's
the
yellow
line,
the
most
recent,
as
you
can
see
the
15
to
21
year
olds,
it's
a
huge
jump
from
from
2019
most
areas.
What
there
was
an
increase,
not
not
all
of
them,
but
definitely
that
younger
age
group
is,
has
had
a
significant
increase.
D
D
All
right,
so
this
is
a
giant
chart
of
lots
of
our
counties,
as
you
can
see
Charleston.
This
is
raw
numbers
now,
but,
and
we
were
number
three
in
the
state
from
17
to
20
for
suicide
deaths,
which
is
nothing
that
you
want
to
be
bragging
about.
You
can
see
Berkeley's
down
here
at
number.
10.
Dorchester
is
at
number
11
as
far
as
raw
numbers
go.
D
Okay,
so
this
is
the
rate.
Where
do
we
go
here?
We're
actually
pretty
far
down
here
we
are
number
29,
so
when
you're
looking
at
rates
compared
to
Raw
numbers,
I,
guess
because
we're
not
at
the
top
of
the
chart,
but
it's
just
something
that
you
can
definitely
you
know
check,
look
at
later,
Berkeley's
right
near
us
too.
Where
is
Dorchester.
D
D
F
D
Area
so
this
obviously
was
clear
by
looking
at
the
chart
for
this
one.
The
15
to
24
year
olds
have
the
highest
rate
of
suicidal
ideation,
and
this.
This
is
the
raw
numbers
here
for
suicidal
ideation.
Seen
in
the
emergency
departments,
Charleston
number
one
with
14
000
dorchester's
down
at
5
000
in
Berkeley,
almost
six.
D
D
D
D
Okay,
so
we
got
attempts
by
raw
numbers
again.
Charleston's
number
three
on
attempts
on
Raw
numbers,
Berkeley's
down
here
at
number,
seven
and
dorchester's
at
number
nine,
so
we're.
Unfortunately,
our
areas
is
usually
at
the
top
of
these
charts,
no
matter
how
you're
kind
of
looking
at
it.
These
are.
The
rates
Dorchester
is
higher
than
Charleston
and
at
number
six
Berkeley's
number
10
and
Charleston's
over
here
at
23..
D
This
is
easy
to
see
that
poisoning
and
toxic
effects
are
the
number
one
reason
or
number
one
suicide
attempt
method.
Usually
it's
it's
drugs
and
alcohol
here,
firearms
and
explosives
are
I,
was
kind
of
surprised,
thinking,
seeing
how
low
that
was
for
attempts
and
for
firearms,
because
you
do
hear
a
lot
about
people
using
guns
to
do
this.
D
D
Females
are
reporting
more
trauma
than
males
across,
and
it's
and
the
numbers
consistently
keep
going
up
for
for
this
area,
also
68
white
and
27
black
and
5
other,
and
again
that
other
category
you
see
that
big
dip
in
2020
and
then
it
starts
going
up.
But
that's
interesting
to
me
that
that
population
has
that
big
dip
that
year.
D
all
right.
Let
me
stop
sharing
the
screen.
So
I
know
that
was
a
lot
of
information
and
and
it's
hard
to
present
that
and
make
it
sound,
exciting
or
good.
But
but
it's
I
thought
that
all
of
it
was
important
to
share
with
this
group,
and
so
you
can
take
a
look
at
it.
I
know
all
the
EDS
are
busier
and
busier
with
mental
health
patients.
The
jails
are
busier
with
mental
health
patients.
D
We
did
actually
serve
103
schools
in
2022,
providing
Mental
Health
Services.
We
we're
starting
to
get
some
of
our
school
mental
health
staff
back
and
and
continue
to
get
busier
with
our
mobile
crisis
team.
Here
we
are
we're
the
busiest
mobile
crisis
team
in
the
state
here
in
Charleston
Dorchester.
It's
not
necessarily
because
we,
the
rest
of
the
state
like
Greenville
and
Columbia,
aren't
don't
have,
as
many
calls
I
think
part
of
it's.
D
We've
been
doing
it
for
so
long,
so
fortunately,
people
are
reaching
out
to
us.
That
being
said,
I
want
to
give
you
a
little
update
on
988.
We
are
actually
have
hired
some
of
our
first
people
to
work
the
988
call
center
and
we're
going
to
hopefully
be
training
soon,
with
Mental
Health
America
in
Greenville
to
be
able
to
take
to
work
under
their
platform
until
we
get
our
building
across
the
street.
D
So
we
can
help
support
South,
Carolina
and
answer
all
the
calls
here
in
South
Carolina
for
people
that
are
calling
those
numbers
are
going
up
too.
I
can
probably
just
get
some
information
to
share
with
you
about
980,
as
well
as
far
as
our
state
goes,
but
then
there's
there's
a
lot
happening
and
the
crisis
care
Continuum.
D
Funding
coming
from
the
federal
government
to
try
to
make
all
states
have
more
options
for
treatment
and
for
place
is
for
people
to
go
and
get
help
that
aren't
necessarily
emergency
departments.
So
we've
been
very
busy
planning
all
this,
so
just
wish
us
luck
on
finding
enough
staff
to
do
it,
and
if
you
know
anyone
looking
for
a
job
and
wants
to
work
at
call
center,
we
do
have
the
mobile
crisis
call
center
here
and
the
988
call
center.
It's
a
great
place
to
learn.
D
A
I
Jennifer
I
had
a
quick
question:
I
do
it
in
the
chat,
but
you
you
mentioned
two
different:
no,
it's,
okay!
You!
You
talked
about
a
couple
different
things
in
your
presentation
and
I
I
couldn't
help
but
wonder
if,
if
in
your
experience,
there's
any
kind
of
connection
or
correlation
between
you
know
mental
health
trauma
and
then
eventual
suicide,
ideation
or
death.
Is
that
something
that
you
know
anything
about.
D
D
I
D
Oh
yeah
definitely,
and
that
might
be
a
perfect
lead-in
to
get
Paul
to
reach
out
to
Dr
vonsile
at
Charleston
Center
and
get
them
to
present
on
all
they're
doing,
to
distribute
so
they're
Distributing,
Narcan,
doing
all
kinds
of
trainings
to
law
enforcement.
Any
agencies,
any
people,
they're
working
with
the
police
departments
across
our
area
to
do
drug,
take
back
weekends
and
evenings
I.
Could
I
can
I'll
get
some
information
from
them
that
I
can
share
through
Paul,
but
that
would
be
a
wonderful
presentation
to
have
they've
been
working
very
hard.
D
C
C
They
have
started,
am
I
even
exactly
sure
of
the
title,
but
a
mental
health
support
initiative
with
funding
both
from
Boeing
and
from
the
Charleston
County
School
District,
and
are
trying
a
number
of
sort
of
innovative
initiatives
at
various
schools
across
the
district
and
I'm
sure
that
you
were
working
with
them.
But
I
would
love
to
hear
from
I
think
it's
Aaron
shorter.
C
Maybe
it's
how
you
pronounce
her
last
name
is:
is
sort
of
the
contact
of
the
Boeing
Center
for
children's
Wellness
I
said
on
the
Charleston
County
Medical
Society
school
health
committee,
and
we
hear
updates
from
all
that
they're
doing
frequently.
So
that
might
be
someone
that
we
bring,
along
with
I,
want
to
Second
the
idea
of
having
day
Otis
come
and
present
Paul
and
I
were
lucky
enough
to
get
a
tour
of
the
deodis
facilities
here
at
the
new
Charleston
Hub
and
Jennifer
also
gave
me
a
tour
of
the
crisis.
C
So
I
just
wanted
to
sort
of
put
in
a
blog
for
having
both
day
Otis
and
the
Boeing
Center
for
children's
Wellness
come
to
to
talk
about
sort
of
efforts
that
they
have
especially
the
buildings
and
their
children's
for
wellness.
When
we're
talking
about
youth,
mental
health
and
and
all
the
increased
needs
that
we
have
seen
in
recent
years,
thanks
for
presenting.
A
D
H
D
What
I
find
is
people
just
don't
know
what's
out
there
and
we
we're
not.
You
know
we're
pretty
rich
in
resources
compared
to
some
areas,
but
still
people,
don't
they
just
don't
know
what
still
is
available
to
them.
So
I
think
that
would
be
a
start
for
sure.
Just
to
make
sure
you
invite
us
and
and
I
know,
we
all
work
hard
to
try
to.
Let
people
in
the
community
know
what
what
we're
all
doing
as
a
community,
but
it's
we
can
never
talk
enough
to
make
sure
that
people
know.
K
Mayor,
thank
you
councilmember
and
Jennifer.
Thank
you
for
that
and
congratulations
by
the
way.
I
was
when
you
first
started
off
the
number
of
Charleston
County.
63
percent
of
our
citizens
had
some
adverse
childhood
experiences
and
so
I
I
guess
the
Assumption
was
or
or
there's
a
direct
correlation.
You
think
between
the
percentage
of
adverse
childhood
experience
and
all
this
other
statistics
you're
bringing
forward
about
ideation
and
suicide
rates.
D
Yeah
I
think
you
know
over
the
years.
You
know
I've
I've
been
here
a
long
time
and
I
started
out
working
with
kids,
I
think
a
lot
of
times
even
in
schools,
kids
behaviors
people
aren't
connecting
that
it
does
have
to
do
with
trauma
in
their
lives.
So
I
think
a
lot
of
kids
are
acting
out
because
of
that,
and
not
because
you
know
just
to
to
be
a
bad
kid
so
to
speak
and
I
I
just
think
about.
When
I
was
28
years
ago,
a
school
mental
health
counselor.
K
A
C
Thank
you,
I
I,
don't
have
too
much
to
share
today,
which
is
good
with
five
minutes
left,
but
I
did
want
to
say
that
April
three
through
seven
is
National
Public,
Health,
Week
and
as
I
see
events
happening.
I
know
when
USC
is
playing
several
events
and
I
think
that
we
will
as
well
I
will
share
those
with
Paul
to
to
share
with
this
group.
We
continue
to
see
covered
cases
as
well
as
hospitalizations
and
deaths
and
the
community.
C
We
had
over
3
100
cases
That's,
not
including
the
at-home
test.
Last
week
in
South,
Carolina
and
34
new
death,
so
appreciate
seeing
the
Charleston
County
School
District
continues
to
offer
testing
for
covet
and
flu.
We
also
have
at
home
tasks
free
of
charge
to
pick
up
at
any
health
department,
plenty
excites
and
flu
vac
flu
and
Cova
vaccines
are
still
available
at
local
pharmacies,
as
well
as
the
health
department
and
and
providers
practice.
C
I
did
was
happy
to
see
that
combined
flu
covid
at-home
test
was
recently
approved
by
the
FDA,
and
we
hope
to
see
that
available
to
the
public
in
the
in
the
coming
months.
The
acip,
which
gives
recommendations
around
vaccines,
recently
met
looking
at
the
evidence
for
whether
those
at
higher
risk
for
covid
needed
another
vaccine
over
and
above
sort
of
the
yearly
booster
and
and
what
they
found
was
that
the
booster
seems
to
be
holding
steady
and
even
though
there's
some
decrease
in
protection.
C
C
Here
at
the
Charleston
County
Health
Department,
we
will
host
an
intra-jurisdictional
ending
the
epidemics,
Fast
Track
City
Alignment
Workshop,
we're
looking
forward
to
having
the
mayor
as
well
as
Paul,
join
us
for
that.
If
anyone
else
is
interested,
please
let
me
know
we
would
love
to
have
you
and
we
will
be
talking
about
how
to
align
our
work
with
Colombia
and
actually
the
state
as
a
whole.
The
entire
state
gets
Federal
money
around
ending
the
epidemics
because
of
our
increased
rates
of
HIV
in
both
our
rural
areas
and
our
more
urban
centers.