This information sheet summarizes the data available on suicidal thoughts, attempts, and deaths, and describes risk and protective factors that are common among college and university students. Since there are no national databases or registries, and no single study compiling and analyzing suicide deaths, attempts, and/or thoughts among college and university students, the data presented here are from sources that have been selected as the most comprehensive and up to date.
Resource Types: 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 a sudden or violent death and assisting teens in an understanding and nonjudgmental manner.
What is Zero Suicide?
This fact sheet provides an overview of Zero Suicide, a concept and practice utilizing a specific set of tools and strategies of suicide prevention in health and behavioral health care systems.
Foster care providers: Helping youth at risk of suicide
This SPRC information sheet addresses suicide prevention among youth in foster care.
Adolescent Suicide in Colorado, 2008 – 2012
Describes the issue of adolescent suicide in Colorado by using the NVDRS surveillance data.
Connecting the dots: An overview of the links among multiple forms of violence
This brief shares research on connections between forms of violence: shared risk and protective factors; co-occurrence of multiple types of violence and self-perpetuating violence (victims are likely to become perpetrators, experience poly-victimization and perpetrators are likely to engage in other forms of violence). Partnerships can recognize these connections and work to break down silos. The purpose is to guide practitioners in thinking strategically and creatively about preventing all types of violence in a way that recognizes these connections and considers the individual in their multiple environments as well as coordinating and integrating responses to violence in the context of their families, relationships, and communities.
Illinois data sheets
These data sheets describe circumstances around suicide by age and among adolescent and young adult suicide not receiving mental health treatment at time of death as well as youth and young adult suicide attempts with maps and tables by county. Fatality data provided through Illinois Violent Death Reporting System.
The role of adult correctional officers in preventing suicide
This brief sheet provides basic information to help correctional officers in facilities for adults to recognize and respond to people who may be suicidal or at high risk. (An unformatted version of the sheet that includes references is available.) An accompanying list of resources is also available.
Illinois issue papers
These issue papers provide an overview of suicide/suicide prevention as well as focus on specific populations. Individual papers are Preventing Suicide: A Preventable Public Health Issue, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Youth Suicide, Suicide and College Students, Suicide and First Responders, Suicide and Older Adults and Suicide Prevention in the Juvenile Justice System.
Suicide Screening and Assessment
This SPRC resource presents two approaches to evaluating suicide risk and links to resources.