Summary: Ken Norton, a licensed clinical social worker, serves as the Director of the Center For Community Based Suicide Prevention and the Frameworks Suicide Prevention Project at NAMI NH, the National Alliance On Mental Illness. He played a lead role in the development of the Frameworks Project which is designated as a national best practice program in suicide prevention, intervention and postvention. Ken participated on the committee which wrote NH's state Suicide Prevention Plan and was instrumental in passage of legislation which establishes a state Suicide Prevention Council and currently sits as a member of that council. Ken was recently appointed to the steering committee of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. The impact mental illness and suicide have had on Ken's family deepened his professional efforts to reduce stigma and promote help seeking and early recognition and treatment of mental illness and substance use disorders.
