montana suicide review team

It was the phone call no parent can imagine getting. At 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 8, Christina Irmen received a call at work from a student counselor at Skyview High School. Irmen, a single mother of three, was told to meet the counselor in 20 minutes at the Billings Clinic Emergency Department...

Montana, with a suicide rate nearly twice the national average, has one of the highest suicide rates in the nation, according to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. In 2014, there were 243 suicides in Montana for an average of 20 per month, according to the final report for 2014 from the Montana Suicide Review Team...