Resource Types: Report

Article in Pediatrics, Vol. 120 No. 3 September 2007, pp. 669-676. This report updates the previous statement of the American Academy of Pediatrics and is intended to assist the pediatrician in the identification and management of the adolescent at risk of suicide.

This report from the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence discusses issues related to access to firearms on college and university campuses.

This guide for parents discusses internet risks and concerns, including cyberbullying, for youth and presents protection strategies.

This issue brief reviews the state of
mental health services for children and youth who visit hospital emergency departments for mental health-related reasons and provides an overview of the challenges associated with mental health-related emergency department visits. It discusses the policy implications of using emergency department services for mental health reasons for children and youth and makes recommendations for policy action.

The Task Force was charged with: identifying the psychological risks and mental health-related service needs of
military members and their families during and after deployment(s); developing a strategic plan for working with the military and other organizations to meet those needs; and constructing a list
of current APA resources available for military members and families, as well as additional resources that APA might develop or facilitate in order to meet the needs of this population.

This updated national plan promotes 6 action areas for suicide prevention activity:
1. Promoting well-being, resilience and community capacity across Australia.
2. Enhancing protective factors and reducing risk factors for suicide and self harm across the Australian Community.
3. Services and support within the community for groups at increased risk
4. Services for individuals at high risk.
5. Partnerships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
6. Progressing the evidence base for suicide prevention and good practice.

This website summarizes the program’s work and provides links and resources for information of value in understanding, detecting, treating, and preventing self-injurious behavior (SIB) in adolescents and young adults.

The goals of this project were to: evaluate the immediate outcomes of calls to Telephone Crisis Services (TCS) by callers who are either suicidal or were experiencing other nonsuicidal crises; evaluate the intermediate outcomes for suicidal and nonsuicidal crisis calls; and evaluate the community context of TCS.

This report compiles injury information from 34 states and consolidates data from hospital records, death certificates, and several national surveillance systems. The report provides the rates of various intentional and unintentional injuries – such as traumatic brain injuries, fire and burn injuries, and suicides and related factors.

In 2006, STIPDA (now Safe States), through its cooperative agreement with CDC, conducted telephone interviews with National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS) program staff in the 17 NVDRS-funded states for the purpose of gathering detailed information about states’ experiences applying for, implementing and evaluating the NVDRS. This report compiles their lessons learned and strategies for improvement. The report is intended to benefit states planning to apply for an NVDRS cooperative agreement – as well as those in the first year or two of implementation – by demonstrating how to smooth and accelerate the application, the set up and the implementation of the NVDRS in a state, and avoid repeating common dilemmas in these processes.