Resource Types: Report

The Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a workshop that examined the roles that health systems can play in addressing the prevalence of firearm violence, including suicide, in the United States. This publication summarizes the discussions held during the workshop and highlighted the lessons, practical strategies and opportunities for healthcare systems that were identified by the speakers to prevent firearm injury and death.

Youth and young adults in small and hard-to-reach communities (white rural, Asian American, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, LGBTQ+, urban Native American and the homeless) face special challenges, including suicide, to their mental health. The Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) worked with five focus groups drawn from these populations to arrive at a set of ten policy recommendations to promote systems reform and mental health equity. The purpose of this report is to inform policymakers, practitioners and advocates about the lives of these young people in order to achieve more effective and more equitable policymaking on their behalf.  

In September 2018, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a workshop in Washington, DC, to discuss preventing suicide among people with serious mental illness. Presenters reviewed what is known about the problem, what is currently being done and future directions. Special sessions focused on Military and Veterans, American Indians and Alaska Natives and Healthcare, including the development and implementation of Zero Suicide. 

Using data from 17 states participating in the National Violent Death Reporting System in 2012 and 2015, the CDC analyzed suicide deaths by Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) major groups for decedents ages 16–64 years. This report corrects an earlier one, Suicide Rates by Occupational Group — 17 States, 2012, retracted in 2018. The new report uses updated methodology, includes input from NIOSH and analyzes both 2012 and 2015 data.  
Although created in response to the earlier report, the attached Action Alliance statement provides many useful strategies and resources for preventing workplace suicide. 

This report highlights CDC’s progress and future directions for its Surveillance Strategy, a plan for improving timeliness and accuracy. On-time surveillance can raise awareness and guide public health policy and prevention strategies to address problems such as suicide.

Active Minds presents the Healthy Campus Award as part of its ongoing commitment to student wellness. The biennial award recognizes and celebrates U.S. colleges and universities that demonstrate excellence in prioritizing and promoting the health and well-being of their students.

This National Outcomes Evaluation has evolved based on previous outcome evaluations and new requirements by SAMHSA such that the Garrett Lee Smith Program design includes evaluation of core data from all grantees since the initiation of the program.
The evaluation design now supports more rigorous experimental or quasi-experimental approaches, which indicate the Garrett Lee Smith Suicide Prevention Program-sponsored trainings have had a positive collective impact on subsequent identification behavior of trainees, on youth suicide mortality, suicide attempts, continuity of care and service provision through providers implementing a suicide safer environment approach.