Podcast host Loraine Ballard Morrill speaks with Dr. Jill Bowen, Commissioner of the City of Philadelphia Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbility Services (DBHIDS) about the 988 Lifeline, a national network of crisis centers equipped to help people in mental health-related distress or experiencing a suicidal crisis via call, chat, or text. The 988 Lifeline provides free and confidential support to people in suicidal crisis or mental health-related distress 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, across the nation.
Palak Raval-Nelson named Philadelphia’s new health commissioner
Read the full report at WHYY.org Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker has appointed Palak Raval-Nelson to lead the city’s Department of Public Health,