SPRC and the State and Territorial Injury Prevention Directors Association formed a workgroup to generate recommendations to prevent suicide among rural youth. This report details the recommendations for state-level agencies to address promoting help-seeking behaviors, data and surveillance, services, screening and identification, gatekeeper training, bereavement, and survivor issues.
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Strategic direction for the prevention of suicidal behavior: Promoting individual, family, and community connectedness to prevent suicidal behavior
This resource describes ways to prevent suicide by strengthening connectedness or social bonds within and among persons, families, and communities.
Big cities health inventory: The health of urban America, 2007
The fifth edition of the Big Cities Health Inventory (BCHI) report, a compendium of health status indicators produced in a comparative format for the 54 largest metropolitan areas in the United States. Considers 54 major American cities. Presents the indicators for the cities overall, according to gender and race/ethnicity. Indicators include suicides.
Suicide in the U.S.: Statistics and prevention
An overview, including statistics, of suicide as a public health problem in the United States.
School mental health: Role of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and factors affecting service provision
This report describes: SAMHSA’s coordination with other federal departments and agencies to support mental health services in schools; how SAMHSA identifies and supports evidence-based school mental health services; and factors that affect the provision of mental health services in schools.
Lifeline service and outreach strategies suggested by suicide attempt survivors
On January 16, 2007, eight attempt survivors were invited to attend an Attempt Survivor Advisory Summit Meeting in New York City. Four other attempt survivors who were unable to attend the meeting contributed their suggestions during individual indepth phone interviews conducted between January 25 and February 1, 2007. This report summarizes the findings from the meeting and the interviews.
Ranking America’s mental health: An analysis of depression across the states
This report compares depression levels and suicide rates in all 50 states and the District of Columbia and uses the information to highlight solutions to improve states’ mental health status.
Walking a mile: A first step toward mutual understanding
The research–based on 12 focus groups conducted in 2006 and 2007–explores Indians’ perceptions of their own place in contemporary American society and how non-Indians view American Indians, what they know (or think they know), the generalizations they make and stereotypes they hold, how their perceptions were formed and their interest in learning more.
AAP statement: Suicide and suicide attempts in adolescents
Article in Pediatrics, Vol. 120 No. 3 September 2007, pp. 669-676. This report updates the previous statement of the American Academy of Pediatrics and is intended to assist the pediatrician in the identification and management of the adolescent at risk of suicide.
No gun left behind: The gun lobby’s campaign to push guns into colleges and schools
This report from the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence discusses issues related to access to firearms on college and university campuses.