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Pennsylvanians who call, text or chat by dialing 988 or visiting 988Lifeline.org are now directly connected to the same trained, compassionate crisis response counselors who were accessible through the former 10-digit National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, which has been rebranded as the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline.
Under the program, those who graduate from college or another post-secondary institution in Pennsylvania beginning next fall would be able to exchange each year of service as a volunteer firefighter or a member of an EMS organization for loan forgiveness.
Pennsylvania State Fire Commissioner Bruce Trego testified at the hearing Thursday that the number of volunteer firefighters in the state has dropped from approximately 300,000 in the 1970s to 38,000 in 2018.
The Lower Saucon Township Police Department announced Wednesday that it is co-sponsoreding an Opioid Crisis Community Forum with Northampton County District Attorney John Morganelli.
The lawsuit alleges that the manufacturer defendants misled the public about the dangers of prescription opioids, and that the defendants responsible for distributing opioids into the community disregarded their obligation to monitor distribution and halt any ‘suspicious sales’ to protect the community from an exorbitant flood of opioids. It seeks an undetermined amount of compensatory and punitive damages from 17 corporate defendants and one individual.
In recent months the city of Flint, Mich., has become a national posterchild for urban environmental disasters and social crisis, due to the widespread contamination of its public water supply with lead. Since the contamination was first reported help for the impoverished city has poured in from across the U.S., and now a Hellertown church is part of the relief effort.