Resource Types: Report

Information presented in this report to Congress was gathered from state/tribal and campus Garrett Lee Smith (GLS) programs between October 2006 and June 2015 as part of the GLS Memorial Act-mandated evaluation of the GLS Program.

As part of the VA-led Call to Action to Prevent Veteran Suicide, VA has undertaken the most comprehensive analysis of Veteran suicide in our nation’s history, examining more than 55 million records from 1979 to 2014 from all 50 states and four territories. This report describes the results of this effort. It is unprecedented in its breadth and depth of information about the characteristics of suicide among Veterans. It contains the first comprehensive assessment of differences in rates of suicide among Veterans with and without use of VHA services and comparisons between Veterans and other Americans.

This report describes trends in workplace (occurring at places of work) suicides from 1992 through 2013. Numbers of suicides were higher than they have ever been over that time period.

Using police dispatch report data for calls relating to mental health crises and/or suicidal subjects involving certain parking structures in Boise, Idaho, the Suicide Prevention Program sought to determine which attributes made a particular garage more frequently used than others by suicidal individuals. Through their findings they were able to recommend structural and other strategies such as signage with the crisis line number and training security officers and other parking structure personnel in crisis intervention. 

This webpage contains annual reports with state and county data for Indiana from 1999 to 2014.

This webpage contains links to the New Hampshire Suicide Prevention Annual Reports.

Status of Suicide in Tennessee is an annual report to provide state legislators, mental health professionals, and the general public with information on the problem of suicide in Tennessee and what is being done to prevent it. Each year’s edition includes a detailed report on suicide trends within the state, both overall and for various subgroups. Suicide trends over the past several years are discussed, broken down by age, race, gender, and geography. This webpage has links to the reports for 2012- 2015.

The Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children and Their Families Program, also known as the Children’s Mental Health Initiative (CMHI) was created to promote the coordination of the multiple and often fragmented systems that serve children and youth from birth to age 21 diagnosed with a serious emotional disturbance and their families. This report presents program evaluation findings on the program for the years 2012-2013 that supports systems of care for community-based mental health services for children, youth and their families.

The report shows that there were reductions in suicide ideation and attempts among youth after entering the program.

This report presents findings from the 2014 NSDUH on the percentages and numbers of adults aged 18 years old or older in the United States who had serious thoughts of suicide, made a suicide plan, and attempted suicide in the past 12 months. Findings for 2014 are presented for all adults aged 18 or older, young adults aged 18 to 25, adults aged 26 to 49, adults aged 50 or older, and adult males or females aged 18 or older. Trend data for suicidal thoughts and behavior also are presented by comparing estimates in 2014 with estimates in 2008 to 2013. Statistically significant differences are noted among subgroups of adults in 2014 and for differences between estimates in 2014 and those in prior years.