This guide is designed to help national organizations, states, localities, and community coalitions develop Black youth suicide prevention initiatives. It lays out SAMHSA’s Black Youth Suicide Prevention Initiative and policy academies as a blueprint for carrying out this life-changing work.
Resource Types: Report
Hope: A Guide for Faith Leaders to Help Prevent Youth Suicide
This guide focuses on suicide prevention specifically geared for faith leaders who work with youth. It provides information to help faith leaders learn how to identify young people who may be at risk for suicide, describes concrete steps to take if someone is struggling, and encourages the creation of supportive communities. It also describes the unique and crucial role of faith communities and faith leaders in helping prevent youth suicide and fostering mental health.
2024 National Strategy for Suicide Prevention
The 2024 National Strategy for Suicide Prevention (NSSP) is a bold new 10-year, comprehensive, whole-of-society approach to suicide prevention that provides concrete recommendations for addressing gaps in the suicide prevention field. This coordinated and comprehensive approach to suicide prevention at the national, state, tribal, local, and territorial levels relies upon critical partnerships across the public and private sectors. People with lived experience are critical to the success of this work.
The National Strategy seeks to prevent suicide risk in the first place; identify and support people with increased risk through treatment and crisis intervention; prevent reattempts; promote long-term recovery; and support survivors of suicide loss.
Emergency Department Best Practices: Care Transitions for Individuals with Suicide Risk
This document provides recommendations to help reduce repeat emergency department visits, ensure follow-up care, and connect the patient with resources and support to address the care gap between emergency departments and outpatient care.
Mental Health Promotion and Suicide Prevention for LGBTQIA2S+ Youth: A Resource Guide for Professionals, Families, and Communities
This guide can help professionals, families, and communities support the mental well-being of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexual, and Two-Spirit (LGBTQIA2S+) youth. Developed by SPRC in partnership with NORC at the University of Chicago, the guide centers the input of LGBTQIA2S+ individuals and those who have experienced suicidal thoughts and behaviors.
Focus Guides
SPRC 2021 Tribal Suicide Prevention Needs Assessment Aggregate Technical Report
The primary purpose of the Tribal Needs Assessment is to help SPRC better understand tribal suicide prevention needs and track changes over time in suicide prevention capacity, while providing information to tribes and tribal health boards on their own progress and on tribal suicide prevention infrastructure and programming in the nation as a whole.
Public Perception of Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Survey Results
This report summarizes the results of a Harris Poll conducted in July 2020 about public knowledge, perceptions, attitudes, and experiences related to mental health, access to mental health care, and suicide prevention among adults in the United States. The poll was conducted on behalf of the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention, Suicide Prevention Resource Center, Education Development Center, and American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and builds on similar surveys from 2015 and 2018. It included questions about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
State Lifeline Reports: January-June 2020
These reports examine call volume for each state and the territories of American Samoa, Guam and Puerto Rico to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline from January to June, 2020. They also provide five-year trends and the proportion of callers receiving responses from in-state crisis centers.
Click on the link for your state/territory to view your state/territory report.
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Fostering Healthy Mental, Emotional and Behavioral Development in Children and Youth
Healthy mental, emotional and behavioral development are protective against suicide. The publication of Preventing Mental, Emotional and Behavioral Disorders among Young People: Progress and Possibilities made a strong research-based case for supporting mental, emotional, and behavioral (MEB) interventions in 2009. In the ten years since, a growing body of research has significantly strengthened understanding of healthy MEB development, factors that influence it, and how it can be fostered. This report discusses MEB influences in several environments; strategies to address MEB in homes, schools, healthcare and policy domains; and guidelines for implementation.
Trevor national survey on LGBTQ youth mental health
This is the Trevor Project’s first wide-ranging report from a cross-sectional national survey of LGBTQ youth across the United States. 34,000 LGBTQ youth responded, reporting on discrimination, being pressured to change their sexual orientation, feeling sad and hopeless, thoughts of suicide and suicide attempts.