Resource Types: Fact Sheet/Issue Brief

The Trevor Project consulted with experts and national datasets to arrive at estimates of LGBTQ youth ages 13-18, 19-24 and 13-24 having seriously considered suicide.  

Women veterans are almost twice as likely as non-veteran women to die by suicide. This issue brief focuses on the link between psychopathology and suicide risk among women veterans – a link that is stronger than among male veterans. It highlights suicide risk related to mental health conditions, substance use disorders, intimate partner violence, and problems with emotion regulation and distress tolerance. The brief provides recommendations for identifying and assisting women veterans at risk for suicide for clinicians and providers. 

This brief features a few current strategies and technologies that rural communities can adopt to increase opportunities for crisis response and pre-arrest diversion of individuals with mental and substance use disorders from the local criminal justice system.

Part of the Well Being Trust’s Pain in the Nation series, this issue brief reviews the data for deaths due to alcohol, drugs and suicide among young adults, ages 20 to 34, often called millennials, for the period between 1999 and 2017. Increases in alcohol, drug and suicide deaths have affected all age groups during that period but the impact on millennials has been especially significant. Based on the evidence, the brief provides upstream and policy recommendations.

This data brief examined the growth in the suicide rate between the years 1999 and 2017 for sex groups identifying as male and female, age groups 15–24, 25–44, and 45–64 and racial ethnic groups identifying as non-Hispanic white, non-Hispanic black, non-Hispanic Asian or Pacific Islander, non-Hispanic American Indian or Alaska Native (AIAN) and Hispanic persons. 

The suicide rate among women Veterans is nearly twice that of their civilian peers. Sexual dysfunction associated with suicidal ideation is stronger among women experiencing military sexual assault. Special risk factors are associated with women’s reproductive cycles such as suicide risk during the perinatal, premenstrual and perimenopausal periods. While effective identification, assessment and treatment of mental health issues associated with sexual health can reduce suicide risk, research has shown that VA providers tend to underassess and underaddress these issues. This brief provides an overview of the problem and discusses ways in which providers can take these issues into account as they screen for, treat and open conversations about sexual health and suicide risk among their female patients. 

This issue brief reports on 2017 alcohol-and drug-induced fatalities and suicide which had reached the highest number ever recorded, more than 150,000 Americans, more than twice as many as in 1999. Data are provided by age group, sex group, state, drug type and suicide. The brief concludes with 10 key recommendations to provide a comprehensive approach at the national, state, and local levels to counter the alcohol, drug, and suicide problems.

This resource helps schools support students and families in the aftermath of violence and trauma by providing strategies for readiness, response, and recovery. The focus is on the after-effects of traumatic events such as school shootings or suicides and how things like complicated grief and survivors’ guilt can place students at risk for suicide. Resources are provided for preventing suicide and building resilience. The importance of cultural considerations is also discussed.