View full size Ed Murray/The Star-Ledger Cherie Castellano is the program director who runs Cop2Cop the crisis hotline based at UMDNJ in Piscataway on Wednesday. On the Jersey Beat Radio Show: Cop2Cop hotline with Director Cherie Castellano: 1-866-Cop2Cop. Cop 2 Cop is the first program of its kind in the country, enacted into. Tuesday is World Suicide Prevention Day . Flickr User Samantha Marx“The theme is overcoming stigma, so it’s so essential that we talk about mental illness and behavioral health care resources,” said Cherie Castellano, program director of the Rutgers University Behavioral Health Care Center. She said people contemplating suicide have a sense of isolation and a loss of hope, so the New Jersey Hopelinefocuses on allowing people “to not feel alone, and recognize that treatment is out there, it’s viable and it’s accessable.”Castellano added “treatment is very effective and it’s very available, but it’s about having the person who’s in that crisis, who’s suffering, to believe that there is an opportunity for hope and that there is someone who cares.”The New Jersey Hopeline is available 2. The number is 8. 55- 6. To mark the occasion, a candle lighting ceremony will be held Tuesday from 2 to 4pm at the Rutgers Behavioral Health Care Center in Piscataway. Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip.
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