SUICIDE PREVENTION RESOURCES
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Prevention and Intervention
2012 National Strategy for Suicide Prevention
U.S. Surgeon General and the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention
A resource that marks suicide as a national priority and provides a comprehensive approach to suicide prevention objectives and strategies.
A Comprehensive Approach to Suicide Prevention
Suicide Prevention Resource Center
A national federally supported resource center with training, state activities, fact sheets, and more.
Effective Suicide Prevention with Case Examples
Suicide Prevention Resource Center
A national federally supported resource center with training, state activities, fact sheets, and more.
Suicide Prevention Social Media Toolkit
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
A resource that outlines appropriate messages to communicate and raise awareness to increase prevention efforts.
Preventing Suicide: A Technical Package of Policy, Programs, and Practices
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Strategies and recommendations based on the best available evidence to help communities focus efforts and activities to achieve their greatest potential to prevent suicide.
Understanding Risk and Protective Factors for Suicide: A Primer for Preventing Suicide
Suicide Prevention Resource Center
How to identify risk and protective factors and ways to use them in the strategic planning process.
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Guidelines/toolkits on tailored suicide prevention strategies in specific settings:
Postvention
Responding to Grief, Trauma, and Distress After a Suicide: U.S. National Guidelines
National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention
A framework to integrate and coordinate postvention activities, provide communication tools about the impact of suicide, and provide infrastructure for training suicide bereavement support and treatment.
Resources for Suicide Postvention Planning
Suicide Prevention Resource Center
Various resources including guidelines, safe messaging, and toolkits.
Best Practices and Recommendations for Reporting on Suicide
Online Collaborative Resource Reporting on Suicide
Recommendations on reporting and the media around safe reporting on suicide.
Reduce Suicide Risk and Promote Healing – Suicide Postvention Training
Connect, a Program of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, New Hampshire
Brief Protocols, training, and consultation for general audiences and specific audiences (i.e. first responders, faith leaders, police officers, American Indian/Alaska Native groups).
Lifeline Online Postvention Manual
National Suicide Prevention Hotline
Manual that discusses messaging guidelines, especially the role of the internet in postvention and ways to target online communities when there is a suicide death.
Riverside Trauma Center Postvention Guidelines
Riverside Trauma Center in Massachusetts
The Center provides a comprehensive guideline with strategies for offering postvention services in a variety of community organizations and schools.
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Guidelines/toolkits on tailored postvention responses in specific settings:
Video Resources
