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Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
Creating a Therapeutic Alliance in the Early Stages of Treatment With Adolescents at Risk for Suicide: A Tip Sheet for Clinicians
Guidelines/Recommendations
Recommendations for Local Suicide Prevention Infrastructure
These recommendations were developed to help local settings—such as municipalities, counties,...
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
Barriers and Opportunities for Suicide Prevention Among Correctional Officers: An Issue Brief for Clinicians
Correctional officers work a tough beat in law enforcement. Their job—keeping incarcerated pe...
Infographic
Connect, Invest, Uplift: Protect Black Youth From Suicide
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
Levels of Lived Experience Engagement in Suicide Prevention Projects
Guidelines/Recommendations
Considerations and Best Practices for Lived Experience Programs
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
SPRC's Lived Experience Program Background
Resource List/Bibliography
Suicide Prevention Month: Ideas for Action
Guidelines/Recommendations
Simulation in Suicide-Specific Clinical Training: Guidelines for Programs
This document, intended for for universities and clinical training directors, contains guidelin...
Brochure/Booklet
Connect with us at AAS24
Report
2024 National Strategy for Suicide Prevention
Manual
Suicide Prevention Resource for Action
CDC’s Suicide Prevention Resource for Action (Prevention Resource) details the strategies wit...
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
Screening and Safety Planning With Adults at Risk of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) and Suicide: An Issue Brief for Clinicians
This issue brief identifies some of the challenges clinicians may encounter when working at the...
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
Warning Signs of Suicide: A Fact Sheet for Family and Community Members
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
Warning Signs of Suicide: A Fact Sheet for Clinicians
Report
Mental Health Promotion and Suicide Prevention for LGBTQIA2S+ Youth: A Resource Guide for Professionals, Families, and Communities
Resource List/Bibliography
Suicide Prevention Resource Center's Best Practices Registry
SPRC's library of suicide prevention programs and interventions that incorporate best practices...
Report
SPRC 2021 Tribal Suicide Prevention Needs Assessment Aggregate Technical Report
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
Suicide and Serious Mental Illness: An Overview of Considerations, Assessment, and Safety Planning
Webinar/Presentation
Tools to Build a Strong State Foundation: Infrastructure Development (AAS21 Presentation)
This presentation includes an overview of SPRC's Recommendations for State Suicide Prevention I...
Template/Worksheet
Stanley-Brown Safety Plan
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
Promoting Psychological Health and Suicide Prevention among Older Adults during COVID-19
Report
Public Perception of Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Survey Results
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
Increased Access to Mental Health Care for Older Adults: Getting Support during COVID-19
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
Reducing Loneliness and Social Isolation among Older Adults
Video/Audio Recording
Treating Suicidal Patients during COVID-19
Other
The Links between Public Health Crises and Suicide
Report
State Lifeline Reports: January-June 2020
These reports examine call volume for each state and the territories of American Samoa, Guam an...
Video/Audio Recording
Aftercare That Makes a Difference
Manual
Supporting Survivors of Suicide Loss: A Guide for Funeral Directors (2nd ed.)
Resource List/Bibliography
Choosing a Suicide Prevention Gatekeeper Training Program: A Comparison Table of Trainings Available Online
Guidelines/Recommendations
Guidance for Culturally Adapting Gatekeeper Trainings
Guidelines/Recommendations
Selecting and Implementing a Gatekeeper Training
This tool provides information on gatekeeper trainings. It contains questions and lists of fact...
Resource List/Bibliography
Bullying prevention: 2020 resource guide
This guide provides links to a multitude of bullying prevention resources available to you. It ...
Guidelines/Recommendations
Best Practices in Care Transitions for Individuals with Suicide Risk: Inpatient Care to Outpatient Care
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
Resources for Suicide Loss Survivors
This fact sheet describes the impact of a suicide death, suicidal grief, barriers to seeki...
Guidelines/Recommendations
R3 Report Issue 18: National Patient Safety Goal (NPSG) 15.01.01 for suicide prevention
The Joint Commission realized that suicide rates have not improved over the past decade and has...
Video/Audio Recording
Transforming Tribal Communities: Indigenous Perspectives on Suicide Prevention
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
Understanding Risk and Protective Factors for Suicide: A Primer for Preventing Suicide
This primer provides an overview of risk and protective factors for suicide and guidance on how...
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
Financing suicide prevention in health care systems
Training
A Strategic Planning Approach to Suicide Prevention
Toolkit
Best and Promising Practices for the Implementation of Zero Suicide in Health and Behavioral Health Care Systems in Indian Country
Video/Audio Recording
Faith Leaders' Guide to Self-Care after a Suicide
When someone dies by suicide, faith leaders are often called upon to provide care and support t...
Guidelines/Recommendations
A Model School Policy on Suicide Prevention: Model Language, Commentary and Resources
This document was developed by ensuring that local policies are in line with the latest researc...
Website
Uniting for Suicide Postvention
Suicide postvention builds on prevention efforts by providing immediate and ongoing support to ...
Manual
National Suicide Prevention Strategies: Progress, Examples and Indicators
This guide outlines strategies for developing, implementing and evaluating national suicid...
Report
Fostering Healthy Mental, Emotional and Behavioral Development in Children and Youth
Healthy mental, emotional and behavioral development are protective against suicide. The public...
Toolkit
Preventing Suicide: A Community Engagement Toolkit
This toolkit is a step-by-step guide for people who would like to initiate suicide prevention a...
Report
Trevor national survey on LGBTQ youth mental health
This is the Trevor Project’s first wide-ranging report from a cross-sectional national survey...
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
National estimate of LGBTQ youth seriously considering suicide
The Trevor Project consulted with experts and national datasets to arrive at estimates of LGBTQ...
Guidelines/Recommendations
State Suicide Prevention Infrastructure
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
Suicide among Women Veterans: Risk Factors Associated with Mental Health and Emotional Well-Being
Women veterans are almost twice as likely as non-veteran women to die by suicide. This issue br...
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
Tailoring crisis response and pre-arrest diversion models for rural communities
This brief features a few current strategies and technologies that rural communities can adopt ...
Website
Adolescent connectedness has lasting effects
Database
Learning center assistance listings
This beta website replaces the online Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA). It provide...
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
Preventing Suicide: The Role of High School Mental Health Providers
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
Preventing Suicide: The Role of High School Teachers
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
Alcohol and drug misuse and suicide and the millennial generation: A devastating impact
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
Suicide rates for females and males by race and ethnicity: United States, 1999 and 2017
This data brief examined the growth in the suicide rate between the years 1999 and 2017 fo...
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
How women’s reproductive cycles and sexual health affect their suicide risk
The suicide rate among women Veterans is nearly twice that of their civilian peers. Sexual dysf...
Manual
Screening and assessment of co-occurring disorders in the justice system
This guide examines practices for screening and assessment of people in the justice system who ...
Training
Locating and Understanding Data for Suicide Prevention
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
Pain in the nation update: While deaths from alcohol, drugs, and suicide slowed slightly in 2017, rates are still at historic highs
This issue brief reports on 2017 alcohol-and drug-induced fatalities and suicide which had reac...
Manual
Leveraging Funding Sources and Partnerships in Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention
This guide provides a compilation of public and private funding sources and strategic guidance ...
Toolkit
Suicide reporting recommendations: Media as partners in suicide prevention
The purpose of the toolkit is to provide media professionals with application-based recommendat...
Database
Blueprints for healthy youth development
Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development is a registry of evidence-based positive youth develop...
Website
What you can do: Firearm injury prevention
This website provides physicians with resources and tools to identify, counsel and intervene wi...
Manual
A practical guide to psychiatric advance directives
This guide provides background and practical information promoting the use of psychiatric advan...
Guidelines/Recommendations
Community support resource for those impacted by gun violence
This resources helps community members identify and support those impacted by mass shootings su...
Video/Audio Recording
Rocky Mountain short takes on suicide prevention: Postvention 101
In this first of a series of podcasts on postvention, speakers Dr. Sarra Nazem and Dr. Jack Jor...
Book
The practical playbook II: Building multisector partnerships that work
This book expands upon work of the Institute of Medicine commissioned by the Centers for Diseas...
Report
Health systems interventions to prevent firearm injuries and death
The Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice of the National Academies of Sciences...
Manual
Suicide prevention competencies for faith leaders: Supporting life before, during, and after a suicidal crisis
Report
Behind the asterisk*: Perspectives on young adult mental health from "small and hard-to-reach" communities
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
After a school tragedy: Readiness, response, recovery & resources
This resource helps schools support students and families in the aftermath of violence and trau...
Guidelines/Recommendations
Safe messaging best practices: A guide for anyone communicating and writing about Veteran suicide
Media portrayals of suicide can influence behavior in a positive manner by encouraging help-see...
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
Coping after suicide loss: Tips for grieving adults, children and schools
This resource provides guidance on how to cope with one's own emotions after the suicide d...
Webinar/Presentation
Suicide: A preventable public health priority
This webinar provides an overview of suicide prevention as a public health issue in the US. Ell...
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
Suicide and social media: A tipsheet for parents and providers
This tip sheet provides direction to parents to monitor their children’s use of social media ...
Guidelines/Recommendations
National Recommendations for Depicting Suicide
This resource provides the first-ever national recommendations for depicting suicide in enterta...
Website
Zero Suicide Outcome Stories
This webpage provides a portal to the Zero Suicide Outcome Stories, a series that high...
Manual
Behavioral health services for American Indians and Alaska Natives for behavioral health service providers, administrators and supervisors
Video/Audio Recording
Strategic Communication Planning
Program/Practice
Assessing and Managing Suicide Risk: Core Competencies for Mental Health Professionals (AMSR)
Assessing and Managing Suicide Risk (AMSR) is a series of one-day or half-day training...
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
Overview of criteria and ratings: National Repository of Evidence-based Programs and Practices (NREPP)
Report
Improving care to prevent suicide among people with serious mental illness: Proceedings of a workshop
In September 2018, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a worksho...
Training
CALM: Counseling on Access to Lethal Means
Report
Suicide rates by major occupational group — 17 states, 2012 and 2015
Using data from 17 states participating in the National Violent Death Reporting System in 2012 ...
Article/Chapter
If the media is ready to change the conversation to suicide prevention, are we ready to help them?
The executive director of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline discusses how the suicide pr...
Report
Suicide Surveillance Strategies for American Indian and Alaska Native Communities
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
Suicide mortality in the United States, 1999–2017
This trend analysis examines differences in suicide percentages and rates by sex, age grou...
Video/Audio Recording
How emergency departments can help prevent suicide among at-risk patients: Five brief interventions
Website
Patient Safety Screener webpage
Training
Preventing adverse childhood experiences (ACEs)
These training modules are divided into two sections. There are two introductory modules design...
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
Surveillance Success Stories – Centerstone of Tennessee
Video/Audio Recording
David Jobes, PhD, on Evidence-Based Psychological Treatments and Suicide-Specific Brief Interventions
Report
VA national suicide data report: 2005–2016
This report documents differences in suicide mortality between Veterans who have and have not u...
Training
Safety planning intervention for suicide prevention
Report
Public health surveillance: Preparing for the future
This report highlights CDC’s progress and future directions for its Surveillance Strategy, a ...
Article/Chapter
Concepts matter: Ending the self-injury mortality (SIM) epidemic is an early 21st century imperative
The author makes a case for a concept representing not separate suicide and poisoning mort...
Article/Chapter
Incidence and method of suicide in hospitals in the United States
Using data from the National Violent Data Reporting System (NVDRS) and the Joint Commission's S...
Manual
College counseling from a distance: Deciding whether and when to engage in telemental health services
The purpose of this guide is to: 1. Outline the potential benefits, limitations, and concerns r...
Toolkit
Opioid epidemic practical toolkit: Helping faith and community leaders bring hope and healing to our communities
This toolkit was created to equip faith-based and community leaders to be able to respond to th...
Guidelines/Recommendations
#chatsafe: A young person’s guide for communicating safely online about suicide
Report
Healthy Campus Award: Celebrating success in student health and wellness, Key findings reports
Active Minds presents the Healthy Campus Award as part of its ongoing commitment to student wel...
Manual
Student fees: A campaign guide for students
This campaign guide is for students wanting to raise or modify student fees on campus for fundi...
Toolkit
Coercion related to mental health and substance use in the context of intimate partner violence: A toolkit for screening, assessment, and brief counseling in primary care and behavioral health settings
This toolkit provides trauma-informed guidance on integrating questions about mental health and...
Guidelines/Recommendations
Recommended CSTE indicators for suicide among American Indians and Alaska Natives
This resource guide identifies and describes indicators of suicidal behavior and associated&nbs...
Website
VA suicide risk management consultation program
This no-cost consultation service is available to any provider who serves veterans at risk for ...
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
Suicide rates in the United States continue to increase
This data brief describes trends in suicide deaths by sex, age group and means of suicide ...
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
Mental health-related physician office visits by adults aged 18 and over: United States, 2012–2014. (Data Brief, No. 311)
This data brief examines adult mental health-related physician office visits by specialty and s...
Website
Healthcare professional burnout, depression and suicide prevention
This webpage contains many helpful resources to prevent suicide among physicians and residents....
Brochure/Booklet
After an attempt guides for families, providers and those being treated in EDs
Resource List/Bibliography
Choosing a Suicide Prevention Gatekeeper Training Program: A Comparison Table
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
Suicide prevention facts and resources
This two-page fact sheet includes information about suicide in the U.S., the Suicide Assessment...
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
Addressing the challenges of the opioid crisis and serious mental illness
This two-page fact sheet includes information about opioid abuse and serious mental illness in ...
Report
Garrett Lee Smith Youth Suicide Early Intervention and Prevention Strategies national outcomes evaluation: Report to Congress, fiscal year 2017
Article/Chapter
Using science to improve communications about suicide among military and veteran populations: Looking for a few good messages
Experts have recommended public communications as part of a comprehensive effort to prevent sui...
Article/Chapter
Why suicidology should pay attention to moral injury
The author discusses moral injury among Veterans, associated suicide risk, how it is similar to...
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
Pain in the nation: Healthcare systems brief: How healthcare systems can help address the drug, alcohol and suicide crises
This brief provides guidance on how healthcare systems can address drug, alcohol and suicide cr...
Manual
Crisis supports for the autism community
This short guide assists crisis workers in identifying and supporting autistic callers/texters ...
Website
Crisis Now website
This website provides tools, recommendations and case examples on the Crisis Now model which wa...
Report
Helping children and youth who have traumatic experiences
This short report highlights the incidence of traumatic experiences among children, the impact ...
Report
Public policy approaches to violence prevention: Proceedings of a workshop—in brief
This 9 page document summarizes a workshop convened by The National Academies in 2016, with the...
Manual
Conducting research with participants at elevated risk for suicide: Considerations for researchers
This document is intended to support the development of NIMH research grant applications in sui...
Article/Chapter
Broad-based assessment of suicide data and suicide prevention services through the Colorado National Collaborative
This article describes an initial broad-based assessment conducted by the Colorado National Col...
Manual
Support on social media
This webpage includes three sections for providing support on social media.
• ...
Manual
Navigating a mental health crisis: A NAMI resource for those experiencing a mental health emergency
This guide outlines what can contribute to a crisis, planning for a crisis, warning signs that ...
Website
YRBSS methods
This website provides the latest CDC report describing the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance Sys...
Guidelines/Recommendations
National strategy for preventing veteran suicide, 2018–2028
The VA developed the National Strategy for Preventing Veteran Suicide in alignment with th...
Guidelines/Recommendations
Recommended standard care for people with suicide risk: Making health care suicide safe
Toolkit
RISING SUN toolkit
The Reducing the Incidence of Suicide in Indigenous Groups - Strengths United through Networks ...
Video/Audio Recording
Rocky Mountain Short Takes on Suicide Prevention: Suicide Prevention Master Series with Dr. Jerry Reed
Toolkit
After a Suicide: A Toolkit for Schools, Second Edition
Report
NVDRS special report: Deaths from suicide among U.S. Veterans and Armed Forces in 16 states
Database
SAMHSA’s Evidence-based practices resource center
Article/Chapter
Comparing suicide rates: Making an apples to apples comparison
In this article the author explains how different considerations such as where a person is...
Report
Trends in suicide by level of urbanization, United States, 1999–2015
During 1999–2015, suicide rates increased across all levels of urbanization, with the gap in ...
Article/Chapter
First responders: Behavioral health concerns, emergency response, and trauma
This article examines the behavioral health concerns of first responders - depression, sub...
Website
Reduction of Suicide and Trespassers on Railway Property (RESTRAIL)
This organization, based in Europe, created materials to mitigate the incidence of railway suic...
Website
Community Toolbox
This website offers free educational modules and tools addressing community assessment, plannin...
Website
Community Toolbox: Developing an intervention
Website
The Community Toolbox: Evaluate the initiative
This part of the University of Kansas's Community Toolbox provides a framework and support...
Guidelines/Recommendations
Issues in developing a surveillance case definition for nonfatal suicide attempt and intentional self-harm using ICD–10–CM coded data.
This guidelines assist injury researchers and practitioners to correctly use coded IC...
Website
The Community Toolbox: Advocating for change
This part of the University of Kansas's Community Toolbox provides a framework and support for ...
Website
Community Toolbox: Implementing effective interventions
This webpage focuses on how to ensure that key aspects of evidence-based approaches are carried...
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
Pain in the nation update: Deaths from alcohol, drugs and suicide reach the highest level ever recorded
This issue brief reports on 2016 alcohol-and drug-induced fatalities and suicide which had reac...
Other
Zero Suicide listserv
The Zero Suicide email discussion list provides a forum for those involved in Zero Suicide to d...
Report
Suicide and the news and information media: A critical review
Video/Audio Recording
Rocky Mountain Short Takes on Suicide Prevention
In this podcast trilogy, Rocky Mountain Short host Adam Hoffberg interviews three key Zero Suic...
Website
The Community Toolbox: Sustaining the work or initiative
Section on sustainability from the Community Tool Box manual.
...Website
The Community Toolbox: Developing a plan for financial sustainability
A section on funding and sustainability from The Community Toolbox.
...Brochure/Booklet
After an attempt: A guide for taking care of yourself after your treatment in the emergency department
Brochure/Booklet
After an attempt: A guide for taking care of your family member after treatment in the emergency department
Toolkit
Opioid overdose prevention toolkit
This toolkit offers strategies to health care providers, communities, and local governments for...
Brochure/Booklet
After an attempt: A guide for medical providers in the emergency department taking care of suicide attempt survivors
Website
Kansas Annual Summary of Vital Statistics.
A general summary of data compiled from vital event records. It includes a wide range of ...
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
State veteran suicide data sheets
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) produced this series of state-by-state fact sheets...
Report
The way forward: Federal action for a system that works for all people living with SMI and SED and their families and caregivers – Full report
This federal Interdepartmental Serious Mental Illness Coordinating Committee (ISMICC) report to...
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
Characteristics of homeless individuals using emergency department services in 2014
This Statistical Brief examines the characteristics and disposition if homeless individuals rep...
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
Understanding the impact of suicide in rural America: Policy brief and recommendations
This policy brief discusses national suicide trends based on the level of urbanization, hi...
Report
Pain in the nation: The drug, alcohol and suicide epidemics and the need for a national resilience strategy
This report notes significant increases in alcohol- and drug-related deaths and suicide, examin...
Guidelines/Recommendations
Guidelines for integrated suicide-related crisis and follow-up care in emergency departments and other acute settings
Patients and ED staff are often dissatisfied with ED care expressing a lack of ongoing support,...
Toolkit
ASQ Ask suicide-screening questions toolkit
The ASQ Toolkit provides resources tailored to the emergency department, inpatient medical...
Report
The state of mental health in America, 2018
This report provides survey results on the prevalence of mental illness, insurance and access t...
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
Surveillance success stories - California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
Guidelines/Recommendations
A framework of recommendations for colleges and universities to support the mental health of students of color
The Equity in Mental Health Framework, a joint project of the JED Foundation and the Steve Fund...
Article/Chapter
Suicide and the health risks of lack of sleep
This short article discusses the importance of getting 7-8 hours of sleep per night. This can h...
Report
Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics Demonstration Program Report to Congress, 2017
Section 223 of the Protecting Access to Medicare Act (PAMA) of 2014 (Public Law 113-93) authori...
Toolkit
Prevention collaboration in action: Collaboration tools
This suite of tools provides resources through a structure of five steps to forming and sustain...
Program/Practice
Complicated Grief Treatment (CGT)
Program/Practice
Adolescent Coping with Depression (CWD-A)
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
Making the connection: Suicidal thoughts and behaviors and academic grades
Data from the 2015 National Youth Risk Behavior Survey indicates that students that student wit...
Website
Center for the Promotion of Mental Health in Juvenile Justice
A project of the Columbia University Department of Psychiatry, the Center conducts research pro...
Report
Suicidality and death by suicide among middle-aged adults in the United States
This short report, based on data from the annual National Survey on Drug Use and Health and the...
Website
SAMHSA Knowledge Network
The Knowledge Network is a collection of technical assistance centers, tools, trainings and oth...
Webinar/Presentation
Talk like a man: Communication and connectedness for men in the middle years
This webinar explores the socialization and culture of men in the middle years. It is designed ...
Brochure/Booklet
After a campus suicide: A postvention guide for student-led responses
This guide is designed to assist students in leading a campus-wide effective response to a camp...
Article/Chapter
Building a partnership for research with juvenile justice-involved youth
This article describes the importance of partnerships between researchers, practitioners and ot...
Resource List/Bibliography
Suicide prevention resources for survivors of suicide loss
This sheet lists a selection of organizations, websites, and materials that can help people who...
Resource List/Bibliography
Suicide prevention resources for teens
This sheet lists websites with suicide prevention resources for teens at risk for suicide or wh...
Resource List/Bibliography
Suicide prevention resources for parents/guardians/families
This sheet lists websites and online pages that have suicide prevention resources for parents, ...
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
Suicide prevention resources for adult corrections
This sheet lists written materials, trainings, organizations, and websites that contain informa...
Resource List/Bibliography
13 Reasons Why
This resource lists common questions about the Netflix series 13 Reasons Why ...
Guidelines/Recommendations
Special report: Suicide prevention in health care settings, recommendations regarding environmental hazards for providers and surveyors
These recommendations were generated in 2017 by an expert panel in order to ensure the safety o...
Resource List/Bibliography
Youth suicide and self-harm prevention: 2017 resource guide
This guide divides selected resources into seven main sections: (1) Organizations, (2) Policy a...
Article/Chapter
Public health surveillance of youth suicide attempts: Challenges and opportunities
After participating in ICRC-S’ Training Institute, epidemiologists in KY began an assessment ...
Program/Practice
Problem-Solving Therapy (PST)
Program/Practice
Program to Encourage Active, Rewarding Lives (PEARLS)
Program/Practice
Good Behavior Game (GBG)
Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality (CAMS)
Report
Breaking through barriers: The emerging role of healthcare provider training programs in firearm suicide prevention
This report discusses why health care provider training programs should include lethal means sa...
Guidelines/Recommendations
Conducting research with participants at elevated risk for suicide: Considerations for researchers
This webpage offers guidance for those conducting suicide research, especially research funded ...
Video/Audio Recording
Training videos for the Self-Directed Violence Classification System
This series of six training videos, each 5-8 minutes, for providers and clinicians discusses th...
Article/Chapter
Preventing violent deaths and addressing health disparities for transition-aged youth (ages 10 to 24) in Texas
Research supports the concept that drug use and multiple forms of intentional injury are inter-...
Report
Suicide clusters within American Indian and Alaskan Native communities: A review of the literature and recommendations
This paper reviews the literature concerning suicide clusters among American Indian and Alaska ...
Article/Chapter
Speaking the same language: Developing culturally-informed messages about firearm safety
Researchers at Oregon State University (OSU) – Cascades noted that many rural firearm suicide...
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
Emergency department visits related to suicidal ideation, 2006-2013
This brief provides information on ED visits related to suicidal ideation among adults aged 18 ...
Database
Oregon Violent Death Reporting System (ORVDRS) data dashboard
Drawing on Oregon’s Violent Death reporting System, this database provides statistics by year...
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
Surveillance success stories - Montana
The passage of the Montana Suicide Mortality Review Team Act in 2013 marked the beginning of a ...
Manual
Creating Linguistically and Culturally Competent Suicide Prevention Materials
This guide is designed to help public health practitioners produce suicide prevention materials...
Report
Montana Native youth suicide reduction strategic plan
In order to address the significant disparity of suicide rates among Native youth in Montana, K...
Report
Deaths from suicide: A look at 18 states
This special report focuses on suicide using 2013 and 2014 data from 18 states participating in...
Report
Youth suicide prevention in Nebraska
This report summarizes recent fatal and nonfatal data from the CDC among youth and reports on f...
Report
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 p...
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
Surveillance success stories - Texas: Denton and Tarrant Counties
Guidelines/Recommendations
Recommendations for reporting on mass shootings
These recommendations address how media can safely cover an incident where a person (or a small...
Guidelines/Recommendations
Recommendations for blogging on suicide
Suicide is an important public health issue, and those who blog on the topic share diverse pers...
Report
Breaking down barriers: Using youth suicide-related surveillance data from state systems
Manual
A roadmap to behavioral health: A guide to using mental health and substance use disorder services
The Center for Mental Health Services (CMS) developed this guide as part of their Behavioral He...
Article/Chapter
Adverse childhood experiences and suicide risk: Toward comprehensive prevention
Although seldom the focus of suicide prevention efforts, adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), ...
Toolkit
Suicide Prevention Toolkit for Primary Care Practices
Toolkit
Get connected: Linking older adults with medication, alcohol, and mental health resources
This toolkit is designed to assist program managers with planning prevention programs to addres...
Guidelines/Recommendations
Talking about suicide and LGBT populations
A second consortium of organizations held in 2017 issued revised recommendations to guide both ...
Guidelines/Recommendations
Preventing Suicide: A Resource for Media Professionals - Update 2017
Updated in 2017, this resource briefly summarizes the evidence on the impact of media reporting...
Manual
TIP 50: Addressing Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors in Substance Abuse Treatment
Part of SAMHSA's Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP) series, this manual provides guidelines t...
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
Suicide prevention in Indian country
This fact sheet, developed for tribal audiences and the agencies that work with them, reviews s...
Article/Chapter
Training healthcare providers and social workers in suicide prevention: A tale of three universities
The National Strategy for Suicide Prevention called for all physicians to be educated in suicid...
Report
The National Tribal Behavioral Health Agenda
This report presents a first-of-its-kind collaborative tribal-federal blueprint for improving t...
Video/Audio Recording
Engagement informed by lived experiences
In this three-minute video, Leah Harris, Director of Communications & Development at the Na...
Brochure/Booklet
Help & Hope for Survivors of Suicide Loss
This short booklet is designed to assist the newly bereaved without an overwhelming amount of i...
Report
Montana 2016 Suicide Mortality Review Team report
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
Surveillance success stories - Fort Peck Indian Reservation
Database , Website
Arizona County Health Rankings and Roadmaps
Website with a database searchable by county for every state in the U.S. for health outcomes an...
Resource List/Bibliography
Each Mind Matters: Program and Resource Catalogue
Searchable listing of programs and resources relevant to people in California but some are usef...
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
Suicide prevention policy and legislation
This issue brief describes some of the ways in which policy and legislation can impact suicide ...
Program/Practice
SOS Signs of Suicide Middle School and High School Prevention Programs
Program/Practice
Adolescent Suicide Risk Assessment
Program/Practice
Friend2Friend
Friend2Friend is a 25-minute, online, interactive training program for high schoo...
Program/Practice
Together Strong: Peer Simulation for Veterans and Service Members
Program/Practice
Making Educators Partners in Youth Suicide Prevention: ACT on FACTS
Program/Practice
Families Are Forever
Guidelines/Recommendations
Crisis now: Transforming services is within our reach
This Action Alliance report describes what can be done to improve suicide care in emergency dep...
Toolkit
Tools from the CAPT: Increasing cultural competence to reduce behavioral health disparities
Guidelines/Recommendations
Zero Suicide: An international declaration for better healthcare
Resource List/Bibliography
Information about logic models
Program/Practice
Cognitive Therapy for Suicide Prevention
Website
Office of Minority Health & Health Equity (OMHHE)
OMHHE monitors and reports on the health status of vulnerable populations and on the effectiven...
Resource List/Bibliography , Website
Don't Be Sidelined State Resources
This website contains information about specific mental illnesses and mental illness in general...
Resource List/Bibliography
Tennessee Resources
This webpage contains links to nine other webpages with a wide variety of resources on and rela...
Article/Chapter
Newsletters of the Tennessee Suicide Prevention Network
This webpage contains links to the newsletters of the Tennessee Suicide Prevention Network from...
Website
Suicide Prevention
This is the suicide prevention section of the Virginia Department of Health’s website. It inc...
Report
Wyoming Vital Statistics Reports
This webpage contains annual summaries and appendices with Wyoming vital statistics and detaile...
Manual
Strengthening our future: Key elements to developing a trauma-informed juvenile justice diversion program for youth with behavioral health conditions
This report presents the current understanding of child trauma in the context of juvenile justi...
Brochure/Booklet
Suicide assessment and prevention for older adults
This brochure describes how clinicians can recognize suicide risk, engage at-risk elders in the...
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
Coalition guide resource
This series of fact sheets is designed to assist and guide communities and leaders through the ...
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
A snapshot of behavioral health issues for Asian American/Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander boys and men: Jumpstarting an overdue conversation
This brief highlights issues specific to Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander ...
Guidelines/Recommendations , Report
Preventing Suicide among Men in the Middle Years: Recommendations for Suicide Prevention Programs
This publication was created to help state and community suicide prevention programs design and...
Manual
After rural suicide: A guide for coordinated community postvention response
This guide was created to support California’s rural counties with developing a formal, local...
Manual
A Guide for Early Responders Supporting Survivors Bereaved by Suicide
This guide provides information for emergency responders on how survivors of a suicide loss may...
Training
Simmons College School of Social Work SW 464 - Understanding suicide: Prevention, intervention and postvention
This is the syllabus for a spring 2016 course at Simmons College of Social Work. SW 464 - Un...
Manual
Starting the conversation: College and your mental health
This guide was written to provide parents and students with important information about mental ...
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
Fact sheet: Trauma among American Indians and Alaska Natives
This fact sheet discusses types and extent of trauma among American Indians and Alaska Natives ...
Report
Data linkage strategies to advance youth suicide prevention
The purpose of this review is to identify and describe data systems that can be linked to data ...
Report
Better evidence for decision-makers
This document examines flaws with current systems providing access for decision-makers to infor...
Toolkit
Police-mental health collaboration (PMHC) toolkit
This toolkit provides resources for law enforcement agencies to partner with mental health prov...
Report
Challenges and recommendations for evaluating suicide prevention programs
Training
Preventing suicide in emergency department patients
Article/Chapter
Entrepreneurship education: A strength-based approach to substance use and suicide prevention for American Indian adolescents
This paper describes the development and evaluation of a youth entrepreneurship education progr...
Guidelines/Recommendations
Sample agency practices for responding to client suicide
These guidelines and recommendations are intended to help identify immediate responsibilities a...
Report
Garrett Lee Smith Youth Suicide Prevention and Early Intervention Program: National outcomes evaluation
Information presented in this report to Congress was gathered from state/tribal and campus Garr...
Report
Suicide among veterans and other Americans, 2001–2014
As part of the VA-led Call to Action to Prevent Veteran Suicide, VA has undertaken the most com...
Video/Audio Recording
Walking Softly to Heal: The Importance of Community Readiness
These resources provide information on how to assess, understand and measure how ready a commun...
Toolkit
An employer’s guide to policy approaches to address alcohol, drugs, tobacco, mental health, suicide, and chronic disease
The aim of this toolkit is to support employers who are seeking ways to improve the health and ...
Guidelines/Recommendations
Sample individual practitioner practices for responding to client suicide
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
Surveillance success stories - White Mountain Apache Tribe (WMAT)
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
Regional behavioral health authorities youth suicide prevention grant contacts
This map provides contact information for behavioral health authorities managing youth suicide ...
Report
Suicide in the workplace
This report describes trends in workplace (occurring at places of work) suicides from 1992 thro...
Resource List/Bibliography
Resources for Mental and Behavioral Health Treatment
This is one webpage on a larger Connecticut suicide prevention website. This webpage contains...
Report
CCDC downtown Boise parking structures: Evaluation and recommendations related to suicide means accessibility
Using police dispatch report data for calls relating to mental health crises and/or suicidal su...
Website
United Suicide Survivors International
Database , Resource List/Bibliography
Connecticut Clearinghouse
A statewide library and resource center for information on substance use and mental health diso...
Report
Indiana Mortality Report - State and County Data
This webpage contains annual reports with state and county data for Indiana from 1999 to 2014.<...
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
Kansas Data and Statistics
A compilation of suicide data and statistics for the state of Kansas mainly focused on the year...
Website
Nebraska LOSS Team
This is the website of the Nebraska Local Outreach to Suicide Survivors (LOSS) Team. The Team c...
Other
Suicide lifeguard mobile app
A free mobile app for anyone concerned that someone they know may be thinking about suicide. It...
Website
Connect
This is the website of the Connect program, which provides trainings on suicide prevention, int...
Report
NH Suicide Prevention Annual Reports
This webpage contains links to the New Hampshire Suicide Prevention Annual Reports.
A framework and toolkit for school-based (K-12) mental health education.
Status of Suicide in Tennessee is an annual report to provide state legislators, menta...
Resource List/Bibliography
Tennessee Statistics
This webpage contains links to one-page documents with suicide statistics for Tennessee.
Program/Practice
Suicide Prevention: A Gatekeeper Training for School Personnel
Suicide Prevention: A Gatekeeper Training for School Personnel, developed by the ...
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
Substance use and suicide: A nexus requiring a public health approach
Substance use is linked to a substantial number of suicides and attempts. The brief provides st...
Guidelines/Recommendations
TIP 60: Using technology-based therapeutic tools in behavioral health services
This Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP) provides an overview of current technology-based asse...
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
U.S. Census Bureau Profile America Facts for Features: American Indian and Alaskan Native Heritage Month: November 2015
Program/Practice
Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT)
This intervention is the practice of delivering outpatient treatment under court order to adult...
Toolkit
Hope for Life Day Toolkit
This toolkit is geared towards professionals and grass-roots organizers working in AI/AN commun...
Guidelines/Recommendations
A construction industry blueprint: Suicide prevention in the workplace
The construction industry is among occupations at highest risk for suicide. This guide provides...
Program/Practice
Suicide Assessment and Intervention Training for Mental Health Professionals
Guidelines/Recommendations , Program/Practice , Manual
Survivor Outreach Team Training Manual
Developed by the Kern County (CA) Mental Health Department (now Kern Behavioral Health and Reco...
Program/Practice
Community Gatekeeper Training: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) Older Adults & Suicide Prevention
Community Gatekeeper Training: LGBT Older Adults & Suicide Prevention
Program/Practice , Guidelines/Recommendations
Check-in With You: The Older Adult Hopelessness Screening Program (OAHS)
Check-in With You: The Older Adult Hopelessness ScreeningProgram
Guidelines/Recommendations
Responding to Grief, Trauma, and Distress After a Suicide: U.S. National Guidelines
These guidelines provide a unified, far-reaching blueprint for the development of suicide postv...
Article/Chapter
Director’s Corner: Postvention as Prevention
In this guest post, Ken Norton, LICSW, executive director of the New Hampshire chapter of the N...
Report
U.S. National Suicide Prevention Research Efforts: 2008-2013 Portfolio Analyses
This report, put together by the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention's Research Pr...
Toolkit
Behavioral health among college students information & resource kit
This toolkit discusses the range of substance misuse among many young adults as they enter coll...
Website
Zero suicide in health and behavioral health care
Zero Suicide is founded on the belief that suicide deaths for individuals under care within hea...
Manual
Trauma-informed care in behavioral health services: Quick guide for clinicians based on TIP 57
Based on the Treatment Improvement Protocol, Trauma-Informed Care in Behavioral Health Services...
Report
Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children and Their Families Program, Evaluation findings, Report to Congress, 2012-2013
The Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children and Their Families Program, als...
Resource List/Bibliography
LGBT training curricula for behavioral health and primary care practitioners
This list of professional training curricula for behavioral health and primary care practitione...
Website
Healthy Youth Survey Data
The Healthy Youth Survey provides information about youth in Washington that is used by county ...
Manual
A journey toward health and hope: Your handbook for recovery after a suicide attempt
Guides people through the first steps toward recovery and a hopeful future after a suicide atte...
Article/Chapter
Healing of the canoe: Preliminary results of a culturally grounded intervention to prevent substance abuse and promote tribal identity for native youth in two Pacific Northwest tribes
This article describes a culturally grounded social skills intervention to promote increased cu...
Guidelines/Recommendations
Psychiatric-mental health nurse essential competencies for assessment and management of individuals at risk for suicide
The following essential competencies for psychiatric registered nurses working in hospital sett...
Toolkit
ZEST toolkit for suicide safer care centers
The ZEST toolkit is intended to provide guidance and support to community behavioral health cen...
Guidelines/Recommendations
Youth warning signs
In order to achieve a consensus on warning signs for youth suicide, a panel of national and int...
Toolkit
Promoting emotional health and preventing suicide: A toolkit for senior centers
This toolkit provides ideas for integrating suicide prevention into the work of senior centers....
Manual
The Carter Center journalism resource guide on behavioral health
This resource guide is intended to aid the media in fair and accurate coverage of mental illnes...
Toolkit
Collaboration toolkit: California community colleges and California county behavioral and mental health departments
This toolkit resource identifies ways to build sustainable partnerships between community colle...
Report
Suicidal thoughts and behavior among adults: Results from the 2014 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH)
This report presents findings from the 2014 NSDUH on the percentages and numbers of adults aged...
Toolkit
Suicide surveillance data toolkit for GLS grantees
This first version of the toolkit is focused on national-level systems that collect data on sui...
Manual
Entertainment & media depiction suggestions for portraying behavioral health conditions: Mental illness and substance abuse disorders
These guidelines provide suggestions for accurate portrayal, words and tone, ways in which the ...
Resource List/Bibliography
Engaging suicide attempt survivors
This sheet contains resources which include videos, websites, reports, and toolkits that can he...
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
Surveillance success stories - Vermont
Screening/Assessing Students: Indicators and Tools
Toolkit
Coming together to care: A suicide prevention and postvention toolkit for Texas communities
This 2015 update to the suicide prevention and postvention toolkit focuses on safe suicide care...
Guidelines/Recommendations
Riverside Trauma Center postvention guidelines
This document offers guidelines for schools, organizations, and communities to follow after a s...
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
Surveillance success stories - Ohio
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
Don’t do it alone: A school system rises to the challenge of three student suicides
Larry Berkowitz, EdD, director of Riverside Trauma Center, discusses developing a school postve...
Resource List/Bibliography
Resources in behavioral health crisis services
This document provides information on crisis services and provides lists of crisis lines and mo...
Report
The truth about suicide & guns
This report includes a synthesis of data and research from the CDC, academic journals, and a va...
Report
Aiming for zero suicides
Report
Cost of Injury Reports and Partner Toolkit
Guidelines/Recommendations
Ending conversion therapy: Supporting and affirming LGBTQ youth
Presents research, clinical expertise, and expert consensus on therapeutic practices related to...
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
The moment I felt hope: A suicide attempt survivor reflects on strengths and weaknesses in suicide care
In this interview transcript, Diana Cortez, a suicide prevention advocate, shares her personal ...
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
Becoming better listeners: One health care organization’s experience of committing to the Zero Suicide approach
In this interview transcript, Kim Walton, chief clinical officer for behavioral health at Commu...
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
Texas injury data brief
The following data brief summarizes the burden of suicide in Texas and demonstrates which popul...
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
A continuum of behavioral health crisis services
This document describes the continuum of behavioral health crisis services.
Although the current evidence base for the effects of psychosocial interventions is sizable, su...
Article/Chapter
State participation in the Medicaid expansion provision of the affordable care act: Implications for uninsured individuals with a behavioral health condition
The ACA expands Medicaid coverage to adults below 138 percent of the Federal Poverty Level (FPL...
Manual
Protect the community, protect each other
This Guide is written in language familiar to those serving our communities and is intended to ...
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
Annual suicide data
This web page includes the yearly U.S.A. Suicide: Official Final Data sheets compiled by John L...
Database
After a suicide resource directory: Coping with grief, trauma, and distress
“After a Suicide" is a portal linking people who are grieving after a death by suicide to an ...
Manual
TIP 59: Improving cultural competence
Resource List/Bibliography
SAMHSA enrollment and outreach resources
This sheet lists resources outreach programs can use to ensure people with mental and/or substa...
Guidelines/Recommendations
Suicide safe mobile app
This app equips providers with education and support resources to assess patients' risk of suic...
Resource List/Bibliography
Bibliography of suicide prevention research for colleges and universities
This sheet lists survey results and studies relevant to different aspects of campus suicide pre...
Guidelines/Recommendations
Communicating to advance the public's health: Workshop summary
On September 22, 2014, the Institute of Medicine's Roundtable on Population Health Improvement ...
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
The role of senior living community professionals in preventing suicide
This sheet provides information to help professionals in senior living communities recognize an...
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
Positive youth development: Using strengths to address alcohol abuse and suicide among American Indian and Alaska Native youth
This information brief introduces prevention practitioners to the positive youth development fr...
Guidelines/Recommendations , Report
Gatekeeper Training for Suicide Prevention: A Theoretical Model and Review of the empirical literature
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
Racial and gender disparities in suicide among young adults aged 18–24: United States, 2009–2013
This NCHS Health E-Stat examines suicide rates and methods among young adults aged 18–24, by ...
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
QuickStats: Age-adjusted rates for suicide, by urbanization of county of residence — United States, 2004 and 2013
This bar chart shows the age-adjusted suicide rate from 2004 to 2013 increased in all county ur...
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
Combinations of types of mental health services received in the past year among young adults
This short document reports utilizes 2014 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) data t...
Report
Racial/ethnic differences in mental health service use among adults
This chartbook presents estimates of mental health service use by adults aged 18 or older from ...
Article/Chapter
Suicide and Suicidal Attempts in the United States: Costs and Policy Implications
This article summarizes data on the economic costs of suicide and suicide attempts as well as t...
Toolkit
First responders' trauma intervention resource toolkit
This toolkit describes the incidence of PTSD correlated with suicide among first responders. It...
Article/Chapter
Reformulating suicide risk formulation: From prediction to prevention
Guidelines/Recommendations
Defense strategy for suicide prevention (DSSP)
The DSSP is aligned with the 2012 National Strategy (NSSP) tailored to meet the unique needs of...
Toolkit
CJCA toolkit: Reducing the use of isolation
Subjecting developing adolescents to isolation can cause permanent psychological damage and mul...
Guidelines/Recommendations
Best practice guidelines for balancing program fidelity & adaptation
Video/Audio Recording
Eliminating stigma faced by peer support staff
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
Tips to reduce negative attitudes faced by peer support staff
Peer support staff are individuals in recovery from a mental illness and/or substance use disor...
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
Leveraging the lived experience of peer support staff in behavioral health
Peer support staff are individuals in recovery from a mental illness and/or substance use disor...
Report
Adults newly exposed to "Know the Signs" campaign report greater gains in confidence to intervene with those who might be at risk for suicide than those unexposed to the campaign
This report presents results of a one-year follow-up to a survey on Know the Signs, a Californi...
Report
Analysis of the benefits and costs of CalMHSA's investment in Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST)
This report estimates the possible reductions in suicide attempts resulting from investment in ...
Report
Leaving a Legacy: Translating SPRC’s Sustainability Recommendations into Action
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
Suicide: Facts at a glance 2015
This fact sheet from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention presents suicide-related da...
Resource List/Bibliography
Resources for Suicide Postvention Planning
This SPRC resource lists postvention resources, including information appropriate for particula...
Guidelines/Recommendations , Resource List/Bibliography
Framework for successful messaging: Guidelines topic list
This directory includes communications resources for specific goals, channels, audiences, and c...
Toolkit
Re-engineered Discharge (RED) Toolkit
This toolkit describes 12 mutually reinforcing actions that hospitals undertake during and afte...
Webinar/Presentation
The role of peer support services in caring for those at risk of suicide
This webinar explains the role of embedding lived experience into the Zero Suicide initiative a...
Website
U.S. Census Bureau Profile America facts for features: American Indian and Alaskan Native Heritage Month: November 2015
This web page provides data on American Indians and Alaska Natives, including demographic and h...
Website
Each Mind Matters: California's Mental Health Movement
Information and personal stories on mental health and suicide prevention and links to resources...
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
Mental Health in Youth and Young Adults
Presents basic information about mental health in youth and young adults in New Mexico.
Manual , Resource List/Bibliography
NYC Guide to Suicide Prevention, Services and Resources
This guide provides key linkages to resources, tools, research, and support services. It is des...
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
Suicide and Self Inflicted Injuries
Data on suicides and self-inflicted injuries in New York State.
...Website
Oregon Healthy Teen Survey
Oregon Healthy Teen Survey results from 2001 to 2015 and Youth Risk Behavior Survey results fro...
Guidelines/Recommendations
South Dakota Department of Social Services Prevention Program Five Year Strategic Plan (2015 – 2020)
The five-year strategic plan for 2015 – 2020 for the South Dakota Department of Social Servic...
Manual
Caring for adult patients with suicide risk: A consensus guide for emergency departments
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
Surveillance success stories - Kentucky
Manual
How to talk to a child about a suicide attempt in your family
This guide is intended to provide support and share resources that may be helpful if there has ...
Guidelines/Recommendations
CDC epi-aid report on youth suicide in Fairfax county
Responding to a possible suicide cluster of youth suicides (7 deaths over 3 years) the CDC cond...
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
Teen depression
Discusses the prevalence of depression, the difference between depression and sadness, signs an...
Report
Texas suicide safer schools
This report is designed to assist Texas educators to know the incidence of youth suicide and to...
Training
Required New Teacher Training: Available Suicide Prevention and Intervention Training Programs
A list of suicide prevention and intervention trainings that can serve as a guide for Indiana g...
Report
Preventing and responding to suicide clusters in American Indian and Alaska Native communities
The purpose of this report is to learn about suicide clusters and responses in tribal communiti...
Other
KnowBullying: Put the power to prevent bullying in your hand
Bullying is a risk factors for suicide ideation, suicidal behavior and suicide. This mobile app...
Toolkit
CSTE tribal epidemiology toolkit: Improving data quality and data sharing with Indian country
This toolkit of resources and best practices was created to help facilitate data sharing and li...
Program/Practice
Suicide Prevention among LGBT Youth: A Workshop for Professionals Who Serve Youth
Suicide Prevention among LGBT Youth: A Workshop for Professionals Who Serve Youth, dev...
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
An introduction to co-occurring borderline personality disorder and substance use disorders in brief
Although the main focus of this fact sheet is the co-occurrence of Substance Use Disorder (SUD)...
Guidelines/Recommendations
Suicide Prevention and the Clinical Workforce: Guidelines for Training
These guidelines address how to create suicide prevention training programs for various health ...
Program/Practice , Manual , Toolkit
A Guide to Using Facebook to Promote Suicide Prevention and Mental Illness Stigma Reduction
A Guide to Using Facebook to Promote Suicide Prevention and Mental Illness St...
Website
Faith.Hope.Life.
Faith.Hope.Life. is an initiative of the Faith Communities Task Force of the National Action Al...
Program/Practice , Guidelines/Recommendations , Manual
Manual for Support Groups for Suicide Attempt Survivors
Program/Practice
PREPaRE School Crisis Prevention and Intervention Training Curriculum (2nd Edition)
The PREPaRE School Crisis Prevention and Intervention Training Curriculum (2nd E...
Manual
The Way Forward: Pathways to hope, recovery, and wellness with insights from lived experience
This guide offers information on how to create a sustainable program for survivors of suicide a...
Brochure/Booklet
Guiding their way back: A resource for people who are supporting someone after a suicide attempt
This resource was developed to provide guidance for those providing support to a loved one afte...
Website
Framework for Successful Messaging
This website can help individuals and organizations develop messages about suicide that are str...
Program/Practice
Veterans on Campus: Peer Program
Veterans on Campus: Peer Program is a 30-minute, online, interactive gatekeeper and re-integrat...
Program/Practice
Family Intervention for Suicide Prevention (FISP)
Program/Practice
Networks for Life: An Educator's Role in Youth Suicide Prevention
Networks for Life: An Educator’s Role in Youth Suicide Prevention is a 3-hour t...
Program/Practice
LGBTQ on Campus for Students
Kognito LGBTQ on Campus for Students is a 30-minute, online, interactive gatekeep...
Report
A Prioritized Research Agenda For Suicide Prevention: An Action Plan To Save Lives
Program/Practice
Suicide Prevention: Supporting Those At-Risk for Suicide
Suicide Prevention: Supporting Those At-Risk for Suicide (formerly known as ...
Program/Practice
Umatter for Schools Youth Suicide Prevention
Umatter for Schools Youth Suicide Prevention is a two-day training program that p...
Program/Practice
LGBTQ on Campus for Faculty and Staff
Kognito LGBTQ on Campus for Faculty and Staff is a 30-minute, online, interactive...
Video/Audio Recording
Suicide prevention, intervention and response video series for clergy, pastors, ministers, rabbis and other faith community leaders
This series of five videos for clergy discusses: warning signs and risk factors; how to tell ...
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
Visits to emergency departments for drug-related suicide attempts increased
This report analyzed the increase in emergency department visits by age and found that the over...
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
Emergency department visits for drug-related suicide attempts among middle-aged adults aged 45-64
This report focused on the 45 to 64 age group, which had the largest increase in emergency depa...
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
Referenced version - The role of adult correctional officers in preventing suicide
Report
Leading change 2.0: Advancing the behavioral health of the nation, 2015–2018
The strategic plan outlines six strategic initiatives for meeting SAMHSA's mission, new and exi...
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
Everyone can play a role in the conversation about mental health
Guidelines/Recommendations
Information for faith-based and community leaders
These guidelines provide practical steps faith and community leaders can take in order to promo...
Report
SAMHSA's concept of trauma and guidance for a trauma-informed approach
The purpose of this paper is to develop a working concept of trauma and a trauma-informed appro...
Report
Preventing psychological disorders in service members and their families: An assessment of programs
In spite of the many DoD programs to address adjustment to civilian life and mental and behavio...
Guidelines/Recommendations
Exploring the role of the railroad industry in promoting suicide prevention
This document reports on a forum where executives from U.S. railroad companies came together wi...
Resource List/Bibliography
The suicide prevention movement
This sheet contains a list of resources from which you can learn more about the suicide prevent...
Manual
Proposed framework for presenting injury data using ICD-10-CM external cause of injury codes
This report provides background information on ICD-10-CM, a comparison between ICD-9-CM and ICD...
Resource List/Bibliography
Zero suicide in health and behavioral health care resource sheet
This sheet contains resources which provide information about Zero Suicide in health and behavi...
Manual
Mayors' resource guide on behavioral health issues
This guide helps ensure that mayors and municipal leaders have the information they need to add...
Resource List/Bibliography
Suicide Postvention as Suicide Prevention
This sheet contains resources from which you can learn more about how suicide postvention can b...
Website
NVDRS: Stories from the frontlines of violent death surveillance
This report uses a storytelling approach to provide an overview of the National Violent Death R...
Manual
Culture and community: Suicide prevention resources for Native Americans in California
This document describes culturally relevant resources to help you plan and engage in suicide pr...
Resource List/Bibliography
The person-centered approach to behavioral health care
This sheet contains resources from which you can learn more about the person-centered approach ...
Guidelines/Recommendations
Social media guidelines for mental health promotion and suicide prevention
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
Suicide among college and university students in the United States
Toolkit
Zero Suicide Toolkit
Website
Zero Suicide website
Training
Reframing psychology for the emerging healthcare environment: Recovery curriculum for people with serious mental illnesses and behavioral health disorders
This curriculum is designed to provide psychologists and other mental health professionals with...
Website
IASP special interest group - Postvention (suicide bereavement)
This web page contains a number of postvention resources including a guide to starting a suppor...
Manual
HIPAA privacy rule and sharing information related to mental health
This guide addresses some of the more frequently asked questions about when it is appropriate u...
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
Helping teens with traumatic grief: Tips for caregivers
This tip sheet provides guidance to parents and caregivers on recognizing traumatic grief after...
Article/Chapter
Prevalence and characteristics of sexual violence, stalking, and intimate partner violence victimization: National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey, United States, 2011
This report examines sexual violence, stalking, and intimate partner violence victimization usi...
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
What is Zero Suicide?
Toolkit
Community Guide toolbox
This toolbox is designed to help public health practitioners and community-based organizations ...
Webinar/Presentation
Potential Countermeasures to Mitigate Suicides on the Railroad Rights-of-Way
This presentation describes potential measures to prevent suicide in railway stations and along...
Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
Foster care providers: Helping youth at risk of suicide
This SPRC information sheet addresses suicide prevention among youth in foster care.
This article examines firearm suicide and issues that confer risk such as ownership and impulsi...
Report
Suicide among Oregon veterans, 2008-2012
This special report on Suicides among Veterans in Oregon analyzes data from the Oregon Violent ...
Training
Principles of prevention
This 75-90 minute free interactive online course discusses key concepts of primary prevention, ...
Report
Suicidal thoughts and behaviors among detained youth
This report examines suicidal thoughts and behaviors among 1,829 youth ages 10 to 18 in the Nor...
Manual
Postvention: A Guide for Response to Suicide on College Campuses
Other
Suicide prevention for LGBTQ2-S discussion list
This is a public listserv to share research, resources and other information, as well as pose q...
Training
Principles of prevention
This course teaches the fundamentals of effective violence prevention methods and incorporates ...
Manual , Video/Audio Recording , Report
Breaking the silence: Suicide prevention in law enforcement
The report was generated through the National Symposium on Law Enforcement Officer Suicide and ...
Report
The elders’ report into preventing indigenous self-harm and youth suicide
This report was developed in response to an unprecedented increase in Indigenous youth self-har...
Report
Parity or disparity: The state of mental health in America 2015
This report offers a collection of data across the 50 states and the District of Columbia, incl...
Report
Plus 65 at the end of the day senior's suicide prevention resource toolkit
This document provides statistics and information related to suicide among older adults.
Report
Depression in the U.S. household population, 2009-2012
This NCHS Data Brief examines both depression and depressive symptom severity in the past two w...
Report
Developing a mentally healthy workplace: A review of the research
This report presents six key areas and strategies for creating mentally healthy workplaces and ...
Manual
TIP 57: Trauma-informed care in behavioral health services
This Treatment Improvement Protocol provides evidence-based and best practice information for b...
Guidelines/Recommendations
Suicide risk in adolescents, adults and older adults: Screening
The Task Force concluded that although there was some evidence of effectiveness that screening ...
Manual
Training resource guide for suicide prevention in primary care settings
Article/Chapter
Expert recommendations for U.S. research priorities in suicide prevention
This supplement to American Journal of Preventive Medicine represents a subset of presentations...
Report
Building the evaluation capacity of local programs serving American Indian/Alaska Native populations: Lessons learned
Report
Preventing suicide: A global imperative
This first of its kind WHO report aims to increase awareness of the public health significance ...
Manual
Addressing the specific behavioral health needs of men: Quick guide for clinicians based on TIP 56
Equips clinicians with practical guidance to address the needs of men in recovery. Addresses sc...
Resource List/Bibliography
Information and support after a suicide attempt: A Department of Veterans Affairs resource guide for family members of veterans who are coping with suicidality
This brief guide is designed to provide Veterans, their families, and VA care providers with re...
Article/Chapter
Suicide in late life: Unique factors and enduring treatment gaps
Manual
Community readiness for community change
Video/Audio Recording
A voice at the table
This documentary highlights the need for the voices of individuals with lived experience to inf...
Article/Chapter
Suicide risk categorisation of psychiatric inpatients: What it might mean and why it is of no use
This article presents study findings suggesting that the methods used to categorize suicide ris...
Toolkit
Zero Suicide Toolkit: Identify and Assess Patients for Suicide Risk
This section of the toolkit provides information on screening and risk formulation with the go...