ASTOR PROGRAM SPOTLIGHT
Excerpts from zerosuicide.edc.org Astor has been committed to the mental health and wellbeing of children and families for almost 70 years. As an organization, we have engaged in modalities that are based in research to provide the highest quality services and programs to ensure that we are applying the most innovative methods to treat our clients. One area we have always been concerned with is the increase in suicides and suicide attempts both locally and nationally. The pandemic has put an additional layer on this. There has been a national increase in rates of anxiety and depression for youth, which increases the suicidality rates for those disproportionately impacted by COVID. Astor has been engaged with the Zero Suicide mission and framework and has developed a road map to implementing it throughout all our programs prior 26 Astor Magazine 2022
