This guide provides people engaged in suicide prevention with the tools necessary to serve as effective media spokespersons and to generate media coverage in order to create awareness of this important issue. It can help them to understand the needs of the news media as part of an effective media outreach program.
Resource Types: Manual
‘Walk softly and listen carefully’: Building research relationships with tribal communities.
This document seeks to strengthen partnerships with researchers by providing insight about how culture, sovereignty, and experience matter in research with Native communities. It was produced with insights from those involved with tribal research in Montana and elsewhere.
Style guide: Reporting on mental health
This style guide notes ways in which newsrooms can present a more accurate picture of mental illness. It includes use of appropriate language, verifying information and making help resources available for readers who need them.
Supporting infants, toddlers and families impacted by caregiver mental health problems, substance abuse, and trauma: A community action guide
Recent research indicates that adverse childhood experiences such as caregiver mental health issues contribute to suicide risk. Using a case study approach, this guide presents resources service providers, advocates, and practitioners can use to better understand and engage the community in responding to children whose caregivers are negatively impacted by mental illness, substance abuse, or trauma.
Breaking the silence in the workplace: A guide for employers on responding to suicide in the workplace
This guide is designed for employers and helps organizations to increase their understanding and confidence in responding to suicide in the workplace. Through this understanding, employers can reduce or minimize impacts on workplace outcomes. The guide explores what is involved in supporting employees bereaved through suicide and other practical information about responding effectively to suicide in the workplace. Sections examine four workplace suicide and offer practical approaches for each one and developing and implementing a bereavement policy to deal with suicide in the workplace.
Adolescent Suicide Prevention Program Manual: A Public Health Model for Native American Communities
This manual describes the Adolescent Suicide Prevention Program, why the program was developed, how it was created, and how it was maintained for 16 years (from 1989 to 2005). Based on the principles of community involvement and ownership, as well as culturally framed and public health approaches, the Adolescent Suicide Prevention Program emphasized community, school, outreach, and surveillance, as well as innovative behavioral health programs, ongoing program evaluation, and sustainability.
Suicide threats on social networking sites
With more people using Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, there has been an increase in the incidence of individuals at risk using these media to voice thoughts of suicide. This article discusses this emerging issue and offers basic guidelines on how social media users and host sites can respond.
Developing an effective evaluation plan: Setting the course for effective program evaluation
The purpose of this workbook is to help public health program managers, administrators, and evaluators develop a joint understanding of what constitutes an evaluation plan, why it is important, and how to develop an effective evaluation plan in the context of the planning process. It is intended to assist in developing an evaluation plan but not to serve as a complete resource on how to implement program evaluation. Rather, it should be used along with other evaluation resources, such as those listed in the resource section of this workbook.
Peer involvement in campus-based suicide prevention: Key considerations
This document was created to guide the process of involving peers in suicide prevention programs within a campus community. It briefly review the research on college student suicide; define relevant terms; classifies models for peer involvement; reviews eight key considerations for planning programs; provides examples of programs; suggests topics for future work and provides additional resources.
Campus MHAP: A guide to campus mental health action planning
Developed by The Jed Foundation (TJF) and Education Development Center (EDC), CampusMHAP: A Guide to Campus Mental Health Action Planning is a 32-page publication of principles and recommendations that can help college and university professionals develop a comprehensive plan to promote mental health within their campus communities, support students who are struggling emotionally or are distressed, and prevent suicide. The publication is divided into three main sections: Building Momentum and Infrastructure, Engaging in a Strategic Planning Process, and Strategies for Promoting Mental Health and Preventing Suicide. CampusMHAP: A Guide to Campus Mental Health Action Planning is part of the CampusMHAP series, which includes four webinars (Building the Momentum, Identifying Priorities, Developing Programs, and Measuring Impact) in the Campus Mental Health Action Planning series (archived on the Jed Foundation website).
Writing and production of CampusMHAP: A Guide to Campus Mental Health Action Planning was a collaborative effort between The Jed Foundation (TJF) and Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC). College and university campus professionals working directly with programs and services related to mental health and suicide prevention contributed to the content.
Program Objectives:
Campus administrators and others who read CampusMHAP: A Guide to Campus Mental Health Action Planning will have greater:
- Understanding of the public health approach as it applies to mental health and suicide prevention on college campuses and as described in the Jed Foundation/SPRC Comprehensive Approach to Suicide Prevention and Mental Health Promotion.
- Knowledge of the infrastructure needed to build and sustain an effective mental health promotion and suicide prevention effort on campus.
- Knowledge of how a strategic planning process can help ensure an effective response to mental health and suicide prevention planning.
- Knowledge of specific strategies and resources for addressing college student mental health and suicide prevention.