2025

Washington Post | "Administration will shut LGBTQ youth-focused suicide prevention line"


Dr. Kristen Choi, associate professor in the UCLA Fielding School's Department of Health Policy and Management, was interviewed by the Washington Post

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Dr. Kristen Choi, associate professor in the UCLA Fielding School's Department of Health Policy and Management, was interviewed by the Washington Post about the significance of tailored mental health services for individuals who have attempted suicide.

“In my experience as a nurse working with youth and adults who have attempted suicide, tailored services can make a difference in a person’s mental health,” Kristen Choi, a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner and health services researcher at UCLA, wrote in an email, adding that LGBTQ youths “experience significant barriers to accessing mental health care.”

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