Maine’s approach to school-based suicide prevention

Garrett Lee Smith Suicide Prevention Grantee Meeting, January 5-9, 2009, Phoenix, AZ. This presentation describes how the Maine Youth Suicide Prevention Program combines universal, selective and indicated approaches to suicide prevention.

Suicide among Oregon veterans

Garrett Lee Smith Suicide Prevention Grantee Meeting, January 5-9, 2009, Phoenix, AZ. Discusses: scope of the problem; factors possibly increasing suicide risk for veterans; and existing prevention activities.

Ten leading causes of death and injury (charts)

Color charts of: All causes of deaths by age group; Causes of nonfatal injuries treated in US hospital emergency departments; Causes of injury death highlighting unintentional injury; Causes of injury death highlighting violence (including suicide). Charts are provided for the two most recent years of data available (2005 and 2006 in most instances; 2007 for nonfatal) and are available as pdf and jpg files.

Characteristics of juvenile suicide in confinement

This publication examines 110 juvenile suicides that occurred in confinement between 1995 and 1999. It describes the demographic characteristics and social history of victims and examines the characteristics of the facilities in which the suicides took place. Drawing on this data, the researchers offer recommendations to prevent suicides in juvenile facilities.

Creating competent communities for youth suicide prevention

Presentation that reviews the benefits of a comprehensive school-based suicide prevention program (the “competent school community”); outlines specific program components; provides an example of faculty/staff intervention; and reviews a model for parent awareness training and student curriculum.

When tragedy strikes: Suicide postvention on a college campus

Article on postvention in the college setting. Includes information on: crisis communication; safe messaging and contagion; memorialization; healing and recovery; and survivors in action. From the International Association for Suicide Prevention’s Postvention Taskforce Newsletter, September 2009