Resource Types: Report

This report calls for Purple Heart medals to be awarded for psychological wounds like posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and for military commanders at all levels to be accountable for suicide prevention and elimination of stigma and increasing the VA’s service capacity and having the U.S Department of Health & Human Services fully implement the 2008 mental health insurance parity law. Includes statistics, charts and tables describing the scope of the problem.

This report documents the critical services available at Urban Indian Health Organizations (UIHO) to address behavioral health needs such as depression and substance abuse. The report also highlights programmatic achievements and factors contributing to success; presents vignettes of select UIHO; and provides key recommendations to support future efforts to address behavioral health needs in urban American Indian and Alaska Native communities.

The purpose of this report is to highlight and review literature, programs and activities focused
on depression and other common mental health conditions in American Indian and Alaska
Native (AI/AN) communities in the United States. In 2010 the Urban Indian Health Institute
(UIHI) initiated its Health Equity Project in order to examine the health disparities affecting urban
AI/AN communities. This report represents a synthesis of academic (articles in scholarly,
typically peer-reviewed journals) and grey literature (from a variety of sources including
websites, online documents, government reports and presentations). This combination of
findings is uncommon in typical reviews of depression and mental health among AI/ANs, which
tend to focus on peer-reviewed academic literature.

The objective of this report is to review recent evidence about risk factors and risk assessment tools within Veteran and military populations to provide evidence for clinical practice guideline development specific to these populations.

From February 2009 to February 2012, the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) of the United States
Department of Health and Human Services reported 16 suicides among Bhutanese refugees who resettled in the United States. ORR requested that the Refugee Health Technical Assistance Center (RHTAC) of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) conduct an investigation of the multi-state cluster of suicides in this population.
The main objectives of the investigation were to 1) describe suicides that have occurred; 2) identify factors associated with suicidal ideation; and 3) formulate recommendations for stakeholders to prevent additional suicides. Key recommendations are made for local resettlement networks, community mental health providers, ORR and other partners.

The California Suicide Prevention Social Marketing Project aims to improve reporting on suicide through training individuals in counties on media outreach, providing counties with a guide to media advocacy, conducting forums with journalists and other stakeholders, and disseminating the consensus Recommendations for Reporting on Suicide to news media throughout the state. To measure how effective these interventions will be, the project conducted the nation’s first study to examine how well news media currently adhere to the Recommendations. The authors created a unique tool to measure California media outlets’ adherence and applied it to a sample of more than 200 recent reports to establish a baseline measure. The California Study on Media Adherence to National Consensus Recommendations for Reporting on Suicide reports on the findings in 12 areas: coverage type; resources; how to help; warning signs and risk factors; attributing suicide to a single condition; reporting on location; reporting on method; sources of quotes; content of suicide notes; language used; reporting on numbers and rates; and visuals.

The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) conducted a national survey of college students living with mental health conditions to learn about their experiences in school. NAMI designed the survey to hear directly from students about whether schools are meeting their needs and what improvements are needed to support their academic experience. This survey revealed that more than 62 percent of survey respondents are no longer attending school for a mental health related reason.

The Prevention and Public Health Fund was established in March, 2010.  This document reports on the 43 activities administered by the Department of Health and Human Services under this fund.  It includes details on SAMHSA funding for suicide prevention including the Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Act and the SPRC.

This report presents a holistic examination of suicide in regional and remote Australia. It predominantly focused on the Queensland experience and has investigated a wide range of psychological, environmental and cultural factors, within this bound geographical context. Includes a review of suicidal behavior in rural/remote areas of Australia, individual-level factors related to suicide and suicide prevention initiatives in rural and remote areas of Australia