Challenges and recommendations for evaluating suicide prevention programs

2016

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Report
Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC)
Education Development Center, Inc (EDC)

This document provides “lessons learned” about evaluation and data and surveillance collection from two separate virtual communities of learning (CoLs) for tribal and state Garrett Lee Smith suicide prevention grant  evaluators. The report highlights evaluation and data challenges and recommendations, tribal and state-specific evaluation concerns, resources, and case studies on how Garrett Lee Smith evaluators overcame particular evaluation challenges.