Store It Safe effort receives funds to further effort to reduce youth suicides by guns [Video]

CLEVELAND — Store it Safe (SIS) launched in 2015 as a unique partnership between healthcare providers, firearm advocates and community organizations with the goal of keeping children safe from unintentional gun deaths, and teens safe from suicide by firearms, medications or alcohol. 

AMCNO donated $35,000 to Ohio AAP to bolster the SIS program and allow them to expand safe storage education and lockbox distribution across Ohio.

“In recognition of our 200th anniversary, the Academy of Medicine of Cleveland and Northern Ohio is pleased to honor our public health history by providing funding to help expand the work of Store It Safe across Northern Ohio,” said Jen Johns, executive director of the Academy of Medicine of Cleveland & Northern Ohio. “It is critically important that we make great strides in addressing this growing problem. …