New Suicide Prevention Tools to Help Guide Communities

The National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention (Action Alliance) and its partners from the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and SPRC have released two new resources that synthesize current knowledge about community-based suicide prevention and emphasize the need for comprehensive prevention efforts that combine multiple strategies:

• Transforming Communities: Key Elements for the Implementation of Comprehensive Community-Based Suicide Prevention: Developed by the Action Alliance, this resource presents seven key elements that should guide program planning and implementation.
• Preventing Suicide: A Technical Package of Policy, Programs, and Practices: Developed by CDC, this resource outlines specific, evidence-based suicide prevention strategies for communities to consider as part of their comprehensive approach.

Together, these two resources address how communities can carry out suicide prevention efforts and what they can do. The Action Alliance will host a 90-minute webinar that will provide a detailed overview of the documents on April 12 at 3 p.m. ET.