{"id":934591,"date":"2026-10-20T05:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T05:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/934591\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T05:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T05:40:11","slug":"n-charleston-police-highlight-mental-health-awareness-during-faith-in-blue-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/934591\/","title":{"rendered":"N. Charleston Police highlight mental health awareness during Faith in Blue event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) \u2014 The North Charleston Police Department is putting a spotlight on mental health awareness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">It happened during the department\u2019s annual \u201cFaith in Blue\u201d initiative. The initiative brings together law enforcement, the community and clergy members.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Speakers with the department said it\u2019s important that the community knows police are there to serve and protect them and are available to help when needed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWe had some children and adults who have experienced some pressures of life that they committed suicide, and we want to make sure we get that information out so people are aware of the signs and how to deal with emotional stress and pressures from life,\u201d said Tireka Wright.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Many who attended spoke about loved ones or friends who have struggled with depression or who have lost their lives to suicide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officers want anyone struggling with mental health issues to know they are not alone and that help is available if needed.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WCSC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) \u2014 The North Charleston Police Department is putting a spotlight on mental health awareness.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":934592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[64,63,501238,137,514,22828,515,501237],"class_list":["post-934591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-faith-in-blue","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mental-health-awareness","tag-mentalhealth","tag-north-charleston-police-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=934591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/934592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}