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Area colleges to get federal suicide prevention aid Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.presstelegram.com/Stories/0,1413,204~21474~2485942,00.html http://www.presstelegram.com/Stories/0,1413,204~21474~2485942,00.html Area colleges may get suicide prevention CSULB, other schools could get part of $22 million grant. By Kevin Butler Staff Writer LONG BEACH — Cal State Long Beach and other area colleges and universities could receive a piece of a $22 million from a bill President Bush signed this week to help prevent suicide, mental health officials said Friday. The Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Act, signed by Bush Thursday and sponsored by Sen. Gordon Smith, R- Ore., would award grants to college campuses to fund early intervention programs, mental health education and hiring new mental health professionals. The law named for Smith's son, who committed suicide, also provides $60 million to states for suicide-prevention efforts, including screening programs to identify at- risk youth, referrals for community- based treatment and training for child-care professionals and care- workers. The law follows a recent rash of suicides on college campuses, including New York University, where six students have killed themselves in the last year. Clyde Crego, director of counseling and psychological services at CSULB, has seen a large increase during the last few years in the number of students with severe mental disorders. "We're really not sure why this is happening," he said. "All we are doing is noticing some statistics." Eighty-one percent of directors of college counseling centers in a 2003 survey agreed with Crego that there has been an increase in the last five years of students with severe psychological problems. And 63 percent worry that the growing demand for mental health services is outstripping resources, according to the survey of American and Canadian centers. Crego said CSULB has 10, full- time psychologists with doctorates and three doctoral interns to counsel students who come to the student center for help. The center is in the process of hiring a campus psychiatrist and patients are also referred to off-campus services for help. "We're not rich in staff," Crego said. "We're getting by for the moment, but some centers are bigger, and some centers don't have enough staff. Some are hurting more than we are." CSULB should be well positioned to get some of the $22 million in federal grant money, Crego said. Congress has yet to vote to appropriate the funds so the potential amount remains unknown. A grant could allow CSULB to expand education efforts on campus that urge troubled students to seek help, he said.

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