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Suicide prevention signs going up in Lincoln parking garages

suicide_preventionLINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — About 250 suicide prevention signs soon will be going up in 12 city and five University of Nebraska-Lincoln parking garages.

The city and a community coalition have been working on the prevention effort since November, after a student died in a fall from a downtown garage. Authorities say several people have jumped or fallen from downtown parking garages over the past three years.

The first signs went up in the Que Place garage downtown and in Lincoln hospital garages. This week city officials approved posting around 50 signs in the top floors of the remaining 12 downtown parking garages. About 200 signs will go into the five university parking garages.

The coalition intends to provide suicide prevention training to university police and dispatchers.

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