This sheet lists written materials, trainings, organizations, and websites that contain information on suicide prevention in adult correctional facilities. It can be used with the Suicide Prevention Resource Center’s information sheet The Role of Adult Correctional Officers in Preventing Suicide or on its own by correctional officers, administrators, and health/mental health care providers in adult correctional facilities, as well as by suicide prevention professionals interested in working with adult correctional facilities.
Resource Types: 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 years or older in 2006, 2010, and 2013. It presents trends in the population-based rate overall and by patient and hospital characteristics. Trends in the number of admissions to the same hospital are examined over time, as well as the cost and length of these inpatient stays. ED visits related to suicidal ideation are then compared with all other adult ED visits in 2013, including overall visits, and by patient characteristics, expected payer, and disposition status. Finally, co-occurring injuries and mental and substance use disorders for patients with ED visits related to suicidal ideation in 2013 are presented.
Surveillance success stories – Montana
The passage of the Montana Suicide Mortality Review Team Act in 2013 marked the beginning of a coordinated effort to use surveillance data to reduce the state’s suicide rate. The Suicide Mortality Review Team accesses and analyzes data from death certificates, coroner and medical examiner reports, and health and behavioral health care records for every suicide death in the state, which it uses to identify trends and make prevention recommendations to the legislature.
This story is part of SPRC’s Surveillance Success Story Series, which describes how states, tribes, and health systems access and analyze data on suicide deaths and attempts, and use data to inform evaluation and program planning.
Surveillance success stories – Texas: Denton and Tarrant Counties
This story details how Denton and Tarrant Counties in Texas created strong and timely data snapshots for their Zero Suicide-specific and broader county suicide prevention efforts. By collaborating with Medical Examiner Offices, Local Mental Health Authorities, and Local Outreach to Suicide Survivors teams, the counties were able to access real-time suicide death data, which they used to strengthen and track the impact of their prevention efforts.
This story is part of SPRC’s Surveillance Success Story Series, which describes how states, tribes, and health systems access and analyze data on suicide deaths and attempts, and use data to inform evaluation and program planning.
Suicide prevention in Indian country
This fact sheet, developed for tribal audiences and the agencies that work with them, reviews suicide prevention in Indian Country and how the 2012 National Strategy for Suicide Prevention can apply to tribal communities.
Surveillance success stories – Fort Peck Indian Reservation
Following a coordinated emergency response to a suicide cluster in 2010, tribal leaders began collecting data from multiple sources to describe detailed circumstances of suicide ideation, attempts and deaths. This allowed them to identify the role of substance abuse in suicide attempts and initiate family education for family members of previously suicidal individuals when they were released from care, emphasizing the importance of close supervision at home and limiting access to drugs and alcohol.
This story is part of SPRC’s Surveillance Success Story Series, which describes how states, tribes, and health systems access and analyze data on suicide deaths and attempts, and use data to inform evaluation and program planning.
Suicide prevention policy and legislation
This issue brief describes some of the ways in which policy and legislation can impact suicide prevention.
Coalition guide resource
This series of fact sheets is designed to assist and guide communities and leaders through the process of building a coalition. Titles include: Before you build your coalition; Coalition formation stage; Implementation stage; Coalition maintenance stage; and Coalition institutionalization stage.
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 (AANHPI) males and provides clinicians with data on the prevalence of depression, suicide, and substance use disorder within the population.
Fact sheet: Trauma among American Indians and Alaska Natives
This fact sheet discusses types and extent of trauma among American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/AN) including data from studies examining adverse childhood experiences focusing on AI/AN children and those examining historical trauma. These studies suggest that AI/AN populations experience trauma at a rate that exceeds, and is different from, that of the general population.