“We’ll never know how many funerals we aren’t going to,” said Kevin Polky, a counselor and founder and executive director of Shatter Our Silence, a local nonprofit that works to raise awareness of factors that lead to young adult suicide. “These are the right things to do. … We’re trying to be a light in people’s darkness.”
Journal Standard: As area suicide rates rise, advocates aim to be ‘a light in the people’s darkness’
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