This brief sheet provides basic information to help managers recognize and respond to their employees who may be suicidal or at high risk. It also contains a list of relevant resource materials and organizations.
Resource Types: Fact Sheet/Issue Brief
The role of emergency medical services providers in preventing suicide
This brief sheet provides basic information to help EMS providers recognize and respond to people who may be suicidal or at high risk. It also contains a list of relevant resource materials and organizations.
Suicide among youth
This tip sheet provides an overview of youth suicide and recommendations for safe reporting
Risk and Protective Factors: Hispanic Populations
This fact sheet presents information on risk and protective factors in Hispanic populations.
Risk and Protective Factors: Asian, Native Hawaiian, and Other Pacific Islander Populations
This fact sheet presents information on risk and protective factors in Asian, Native Hawaiian, and other Pacific Islander populations.
The role of faith community leaders in preventing suicide
This brief sheet provides basic information to help faith community leaders recognize and respond to people who may be suicidal or at high risk. It also contains a list of relevant resource materials and organizations.
Diversity & suicidal behavior
This fact sheet was designed to assist mental health clinicians when assessing and managing suicide risk among diverse patient populations, including sexual orientation, race/ethnicity, and religious diversity.
Putting knowledge into action to prevent violence
One of a series of actionable knowledge briefs to help integrate research into suicide prevention efforts in local communities, this resource uses examples from each of the three GLS programs to illustrate how they used the principles of the CDC’s actionable knowledge process to put science into action to prevent suicide and other forms of violence. It provides an overview of the actionable knowledge concept and looks at how research and evaluation were used to develop tools to choose, implement and evaluate gatekeeper training programs (Tennessee Lives Count); put focus on effective student risk data collection (Maine Youth Suicide Prevention Program); and produce culturally appropriate tools for tribal leaders, youth serving professionals, and parents of tribal/Native youth (Native American Rehabilitation Association’s Life is Sacred Native Youth Suicide Prevention Program). A worksheet is included where communities can apply the concepts to their own programs.
Suicide prevention: A public health issue
One of a series of actionable knowledge briefs to help integrate research into suicide prevention efforts in local communities, this resource uses examples from each of the three GLS programs to illustrate how they used the principles of the CDC’s actionable knowledge process to put science into action. This resource explains components of the public health approach to suicide prevention: the Population Approach used by Native American Rehabilitation Association’s Life is Sacred Native Youth Suicide Prevention Program; Multi-disciplinary perspective used by the Maine Youth Suicide Prevention Program; Primary Prevention used by Tennessee Lives Count and Commitment to Science applied by all three programs. A worksheet is included where communities can apply the concepts to their own programs.
Preventing suicide through connectedness
This knowledge brief discusses connectedness as a protective factor against suicide.