Resource Types: Report

This report, the first product of the State Violent Death Reporting System (VDRS) Workgroup, highlights the state-level similarities and differences in the numbers, characteristics and circumstances of deaths from violence. Two-page summaries from each of 17 VDRS states describe the following violent deaths’ data: the frequency; at-risk populations; circumstances; means or methods; and examples of how VDRS data are used to support state and local prevention efforts. In every state except Maryland and the selected sites in California, suicides outnumbered homicides. In Oregon and Utah, the annual number of suicides was more than five times that of homicides.

This white paper provides an overview of the advances made over the past decade in the areas of substance abuse prevention and treatment, and suicide prevention. It then examines how this knowledge can be effectively interwoven in suicide prevention efforts. The first section of the paper focuses on the epidemiology of suicide and presents a brief history of the growing focus on suicide as a public health issue. The second section provides an overview of what we know and do not know about the impact of substance abuse on suicide risk. The final section of the document explores suicide prevention within the public health context of behavioral health promotion and illness prevention.

SPRC and the State and Territorial Injury Prevention Directors Association formed a workgroup to generate recommendations to prevent suicide among rural youth. This report details the recommendations for state-level agencies to address promoting help-seeking behaviors, data and surveillance, services, screening and identification, gatekeeper training, bereavement, and survivor issues.

The fifth edition of the Big Cities Health Inventory (BCHI) report, a compendium of health status indicators produced in a comparative format for the 54 largest metropolitan areas in the United States. Considers 54 major American cities. Presents the indicators for the cities overall, according to gender and race/ethnicity. Indicators include suicides.

An overview, including statistics, of suicide as a public health problem in the United States.

This report describes: SAMHSA’s coordination with other federal departments and agencies to support mental health services in schools; how SAMHSA identifies and supports evidence-based school mental health services; and factors that affect the provision of mental health services in schools.

On January 16, 2007, eight attempt survivors were invited to attend an Attempt Survivor Advisory Summit Meeting in New York City. Four other attempt survivors who were unable to attend the meeting contributed their suggestions during individual indepth phone interviews conducted between January 25 and February 1, 2007. This report summarizes the findings from the meeting and the interviews.

This report compares depression levels and suicide rates in all 50 states and the District of Columbia and uses the information to highlight solutions to improve states’ mental health status.

The research–based on 12 focus groups conducted in 2006 and 2007–explores Indians’ perceptions of their own place in contemporary American society and how non-Indians view American Indians, what they know (or think they know), the generalizations they make and stereotypes they hold, how their perceptions were formed and their interest in learning more.