This report summarizes recent fatal and nonfatal data from the CDC among youth and reports on first year Garrett Lee Smith Grant-funded results using the framework from Nebraska’s state suicide prevention plan to address suicide and suicidal behavior among youth.
Resource Types: Report
Transforming communities: Key elements for the implementation of comprehensive community-based suicide prevention
Developed by the Action Alliance, this resource presents seven key elements that should guide program planning and implementation. It is being jointly released with the CDC’s Preventing Suicide: A Technical Package of Policy, Programs, and Practices which outlines specific, evidence-based suicide prevention strategies for communities to consider as part of their comprehensive approach.
Breaking down barriers: Using youth suicide-related surveillance data from state systems
These materials assist state Garrett Lee Smith grantees in exploring the opportunities and barriers they face in accessing and using suicide surveillance data from three youth-serving state systems: juvenile justice, child welfare, and public behavioral health. Data from these systems are important for planning, building political and community support, quality improvement, and measuring impact.
The National Tribal Behavioral Health Agenda
This report presents a first-of-its-kind collaborative tribal-federal blueprint for improving the behavioral health of American Indians and Alaska Natives. It was developed in response to calls from tribal leaders for improved collaboration with federal agencies to address the behavioral health of their communities.
Montana 2016 Suicide Mortality Review Team report
This report presents findings and recommendations of the Montana Suicide Mortality Review Team and is based on the review of 555 suicides that occurred in Montana between January 1, 2014 and March 1, 2016. It includes data specific to youth suicides, American Indian suicides, and suicides by Montana veterans.
Wyoming Vital Statistics Reports
This webpage contains annual summaries and appendices with Wyoming vital statistics and detailed and county level data including suicide rates by county.
Preventing Suicide among Men in the Middle Years: Recommendations for Suicide Prevention Programs
This publication was created to help state and community suicide prevention programs design and implement projects to prevent suicide among men in the middle years (ages 35–64). It includes a review of the research, recommendations that provide guidance for state and community suicide prevention programs on addressing suicide in this population, and an annotated list of programs and resources.
Data linkage strategies to advance youth suicide prevention
The purpose of this review is to identify and describe data systems that can be linked to data from studies of youth suicide prevention interventions and to identify analytic approaches to advance youth suicide prevention research. It concluded there is a potential for linking existing data systems to evaluate broader and extended impact of suicide prevention interventions. While the report does not compare the effectiveness of interventions, it focuses on ages 0-25 spanning a period where suicide is rare but primary prevention could be effective, through a period when suicide rates increase.
Better evidence for decision-makers
This document examines flaws with current systems providing access for decision-makers to information about evidence-based programs and makes recommendations that emphasize contextual factors such as for whom is the intervention intended to help and under which circumstances. It proposes collaborative and fluid models where programs can adapt to new information and changing circumstances.
Challenges and recommendations for evaluating suicide prevention programs
This document provides “lessons learned” about evaluation and data and surveillance collection from two separate virtual communities of learning (CoLs) for tribal and state Garrett Lee Smith suicide prevention grant evaluators. The report highlights evaluation and data challenges and recommendations, tribal and state-specific evaluation concerns, resources, and case studies on how Garrett Lee Smith evaluators overcame particular evaluation challenges.