The Youth in Contact with the Juvenile Justice System Task Force, established in June 2011, completed its work in 2013 by focusing attention on the needs of youth in the juvenile justice system, particularly in the areas of suicide-related awareness and education, suicide research, suicide prevention programming and training, and collaboration between the juvenile justice and mental health systems. These are the resources developed to provide findings, recommendations, and practical tools for juvenile justice and mental health administrators and staff.
Resource Types: Resource List/Bibliography
New Hampshire Health Data Inventory
The Health Data Inventory is a website that provides information about New Hampshire state health data sources and national health data sources relevant to New Hampshire including: links to the data sets and reports, the dates of the most recent data available, the geographic level of the analysis, and contact information for the office that stewards the data set and/or distributes the report.
Measuring bullying victimization, perpetration, and bystander experiences: A compendium of assessment tools
This compendium provides researchers, prevention specialists, and health educators with tools to measure a range of bullying experiences: bully perpetration, bully victimization, bully-victim experiences, and bystander experiences. It represents a starting point from which researchers can consider a set of psychometrically sound measures for assessing self-reported incidence and prevalence of a variety of bullying experiences.
FNBHA catalogue of effective behavioral health practices for tribal communities
The First Nations Behavioral Health Association (FNBHA) catalogue is based on criteria developed by an expert panel in May 2008.
Suicidality and help-seeking behaviors in American Indian youth
Data Trend #143 May 2007. This fact sheet summarizes research on suicidality and help-seeking behavior in American Indian youth and discusses the importance of culture in determining both outcomes.
Depression and suicide in older adults resource guide
Lists recommended by the APA resources on the subject: journal articles; reports, monographs, and websites.
Recent firearms research
Listing of current research on firearms with a section on guns and death which includes research on firearms and suicide. Contains citations as well as major findings.
Evaluation resources
A list of resources related to program evaluation. The list includes book titles, online courses, toolkits, and online evaluator locators.
Glossary of suicide prevention terms
From the National Strategy for Suicide Prevention: Goals and Objectives for Action.