LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - September is Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, and the numbers are shocking. While efforts are underway to get the epidemic under control, there’s one group that mental health experts say is proving hard to reach.

“At Imperial Calcasieu, we have a lot of partners in our community,” says executive director Tanya McGee. “We work very closely with the office of public health. We work very closely with our school systems, just in looking at the data.”

But what they’re seeing, they don’t really like.

“We always say we need to get people access to treatment, we need to get people access to treatment, but what we’re finding is that we need to get to them. Folks just aren’t coming and busting our doors down and saying I need help.”

Now, there’s work being done to b

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