News Type: Surveillance

SPRC is pleased to announce the release of its latest Surveillance Success Story, which comes from the state of Tennessee. This story details how Centerstone TN, through improved data collection efforts, was able to identify patients at high risk, improve treatment protocols, and reduce suicide deaths within its health care system. The Surveillance Success Story Series describes how states, tribes, and health care systems access and analyze data on suicide deaths and attempts, and use data to inform evaluation and program planning. Look for more success stories in the coming months!

SPRC is pleased to announce the release of its latest Surveillance Success Story, which comes from the state of California. This story details how the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation accesses and analyzes data on suicide deaths and self-harm, and uses that data to strengthen its prevention efforts. The Surveillance Success Story Series describes how states, tribes, and health systems access and analyze data on suicide deaths and attempts, and use data to inform evaluation and program planning. Look for more success stories in the coming months!

SPRC is pleased to announce the release of its latest Surveillance Success Story, which comes from the state of Texas. This story details how Denton and Tarrant Counties access and analyze data on suicide deaths and use that data to strengthen their prevention efforts. The Surveillance Success Story Series describes how states, tribes, and health systems access and analyze data on suicide deaths and attempts, and use data to inform evaluation and program planning. Look for more success stories in the coming months!

SPRC is pleased to announce the release of its latest Surveillance Success Story, which comes from the state of Montana. This story details how the Montana Suicide Mortality Review Team accesses and analyzes data on suicide deaths in the state, and uses that data to make recommendations about prevention efforts. The Surveillance Success Story Series describes how states, tribes, and health systems access and analyze data on suicide deaths and attempts, and use data to inform evaluation and program planning. Look for more success stories in the coming months!

Following a suicide cluster in 2010, tribal leaders on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in Montana began collecting data to establish a baseline understanding of suicidal behavior on the reservation so they could allocate resources and focus their suicide prevention efforts most effectively, as well as monitor cases over time to see if those efforts were working. This data analysis revealed that alcohol and/or other drugs played a role in more than 50 percent of all suicide attempts. More information on this project can be found in Surveillance Success Stories – The Fort Peck Indian Reservation.

This story is part of SPRC’s Surveillance Success Story Series, which describes how states, tribes, and health systems access and analyze data on suicide deaths and attempts, and use data to inform evaluation and program planning.

The final webinar in the ICRC-S’s fourth annual webinar series, Successful Collaborative Research for Suicide Prevention: What Works, will take place Wednesday, July 13, from 2 to 3 p.m. ET. Speakers from Vermont and Kentucky will share their experiences identifying, obtaining, and analyzing suicide surveillance data to make advances in suicide prevention. Bonnie Lipton, Prevention Specialist for SPRC, will act as moderator.

The White Mountain Apache Tribe requires community members, first responders, and medical, school, and social service personnel to report suicidal behaviors, non-suicidal self-injury, and binge alcohol and drug use to the tribe’s Celebrating Life project. This program conducts in-person follow-up visits on every report. The data is also included in a secure database that provides the tribe with a unique level of information on suicide and the other reportable behaviors. To learn more about this effort, read Surveillance Success Stories – White Mountain Apache Tribe.

This story is part of SPRC’s Surveillance Success Story Series, which describes how states, tribes, and health systems access and analyze data on suicide deaths and attempts, and use data to inform evaluation and program planning.

Inspired by National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention’s Suicide Care in Systems Framework the KY Garrett Lee Smith (GLS) program and Department for Behavioral Health, Development, and Intellectual Disabilities (DBHDID) looked at data as a first step in enhancing the ability of Kentucky’s state psychiatric hospitals and community mental health centers (CMHCs) to prevent suicide. This Surveillance Success Story summarizes lessons learned and next steps in improving KY systems of care toward preventing suicide.

This story is part of SPRC’s Surveillance Success Story Series, which describes how states, tribes, and health systems access and analyze data on suicide deaths and attempts, and use data to inform evaluation and program planning.

An analysis of data from Vermont’s Department of Mental Health Management Information System and the state Vital Records Office revealed that only 21 of the 103 residents who died by suicide in 2013 received services from a public mental health agency. This demonstrated the importance of accessing data from private behavioral health care providers and large hospitals in neighboring states in suicide surveillance activities. You can find more information on this project in Surveillance Success Stories – Vermont. 

This story is part of SPRC’s Surveillance Success Story Series, which describes how states, tribes, and health systems access and analyze data on suicide deaths and attempts, and use data to inform evaluation and program planning.

A crosswalk of data from death certificates and records from state hospitals and mental health clinics revealed that more than 67 percent of people who died by suicide in Ohio had visited a public behavioral health provider in the year before their death. Twenty-nine percent had done so in the month before their suicide. You can find more information on this project and what it discovered in Surveillance Success Stories – Ohio.

This story is part of SPRC’s Surveillance Success Story Series, which describes how states, tribes, and health systems access and analyze data on suicide deaths and attempts, and use data to inform evaluation and program planning.