News and Highlights
This section presents news and highlights from SPRC and the suicide prevention field. Use the filters on the left to find the following items:
- Weekly Spark, SPRC’s online newsletter, containing brief news articles, research summaries, announcements, and funding opportunities. Subscribe to the Weekly Spark.
- Director’s Corner, a monthly column by SPRC Director Elly Stout and guest authors.
- From the Field, innovative activities being implemented in states, communities, healthcare organizations, and other settings.
- Prevention in Practice stories highlight innovation in suicide prevention.
- Surveillance Success Stories focus on using data to inform suicide prevention efforts.
- State Infrastructure Success Stories highlight real-life examples of states that have built infrastructure essential for advancing suicide prevention.
From the Field
September 17, 2019
In this five-minute story, Heather Spada describes an effort to create and implement an upstream prevention curriculum in elementary schools.
From the Field
June 08, 2019
This success story highlights an effort to foster life skills, connectedness, and resilience among Native American youth in northern Arizona schools.
From the Field
June 03, 2019
This four-minute audio story highlights a statewide initiative to integrate West Virginia’s substance abuse and suicide prevention efforts.
From the Field
April 16, 2019
This success story details how the National Alliance on Mental Illness New Hampshire and New Hampshire Hospital established a care transitions program for the hospital’s youth inpatients.