TOPIC: Suicide Prevention

The following reflects our most recent response for technical assistance related to this topic. This list represents a sample of information to get you started and is not meant to be exhaustive.
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Center Developed Documents, Resources, and Tools

Center Policy Issues Analysis Brief

• Suicide Prevention in Schools

Introductory Packets

• Assessing to Address Barriers to Learning
• Introductory Packet: Affect and Mood Problems related to School Aged Youth

Newsletter

• Youth Suicide/Depression/Violence (Summer, '99)

Other

• Hotline Numbers

Presentation and Training Aid

• Youth Suicide Prevention: Mental Health and Public Health Perspectives (slides & script)

Quick Training Aids

• Suicide Prevention
• Case Management in the School Context

Resource Aid Packet

• Responding to Crisis at a School
• Screening/Assessing Students: Indicators and Tools

Practice Notes

• Suicidal Crisis
• When a Student Seems Dangerous to Self or Others

Technical Aid Packets

• School-Based Client Consultation, Referral, and Management of Care
• School-Based Mutual Support Groups (For Parents, Staff, and Older Students)

Technical Assistance Samplers

• Sampling of Outcome Findings from Interventions Relevant to Addressing Barriers to Learning
• School Interventions to Prevent Youth Suicide

Assessment
• A Measure of Adolescent Potential for Suicide (MAPS): Development and Preliminary Findings
• The Columbia Suicide Screen: Validity and Reliability of a Screen for Youth Suicide and Depression
• Detecting Suicide Risk in a Pediatric Emergency Department: Development of a Brief Screening Tool
• Feasibility of Screening Adolescents for Suicide Risk in "Real-World" High School Settings
• Preventing youth suicide in rural America (2008) Suicide Prevention Resource Center and State and Territorial Injury Prevention Directors Association
• School Screening Programs (CDC)
• Screening for Depression: Recommendations and Rationale
• Screening for Mental Health: Depression
• Screening for Mental Health: Suicide
• Screening for Suicide Risk: Recommendation and Rationale
• Symptoms of Depression and Danger Signs for Suicide
• Things to Watch Out for When Assessing Suicide Risk
• Youth at risk for mental illness and suicide: Screening instruments and assessment in SBHCs

Prevention

• American Academy of Pediatrics Some Things You Should Know About Preventing Teen Suicide
• Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands Commission on Adolescent Suicide Prevention
• Australia National Youth Suicide Prevention Strategy
• Early start to suicide prevention
• Education Commission of the States Suicide Prevention Site
• Evidence based practices in suicide prevention program
• Guidelines for Suicide Prevention: Policy and Procedures
• National Governors Association (NGA) Center for Best Practices
• National Strategy for Suicide Prevention (U.S.)
• National Strategy for Suicide Prevention (England)
• National Strategy for Suicide Prevention: Facts, Funding, Frameworks for Action
• New Mexico Youth Suicide Prevention Task Force
• Preventing Suicide and Deliberate Self Harm: Laying the Foundations: Identifying Practice Examples
• Preventing Suicide: What will Work and What Will Not
• The Prevention, Recognition, and Management of Young People at Risk of Suicide: Development of Guidelines for Schools
• Research-Based Guidelines and Practices for School-Based Suicide Prevention
• School Based Youth Suicide Prevention Guide
• Suicide Prevention
• Suicide Prevention (CDC)
• Suicide Prevention in the Schools: An Issue Brief from the Center for School Mental Health
• Suicide Prevention Gatekeeper Trainings Matrix
• Suicide Prevention Resource Center
• Suicide Prevention and Public Health Challenge, Strategy and Policy Recommendations
• Suicide Prevention Resource Packet
• Suicide Prevention Strategies: A Systemic Review
• Suicide Prevention: Why and how should schools get involved
• The Surgeon General's Call to Action to Prevent Suicide, 1999
• Teen Suicide Prevention
• Youth Suicide Prevention: Mental Health and Public Health Perspectives
• Youth Suicide Prevention: Strengthening state policies and school-based strategies
• Youth Suicide Prevention Programs: A Resource Guide
• Youth Suicide Risk and Prevention Interventions: A Review of the Past 10 Years

Intervention

• The Evaluation of Interventions to Prevent Suicide
• Issues to Consider in Intervention Research with Persons at High Risk for Suicidality
• Reducing Suicide: A National Imperative (2002) Institute of Medicine, National Academy Press
• Response: A Comprehensive High School Based Suicide Awareness Program
• Saving Kids from Suicide
• What to Do if Someone You Know Becomes Suicidal

Fact/Information Material

• AACAP Fact Sheet: Teen Suicide
• "Child Suicide and the Schools"
• Common Misconceptions about Suicide
• Explaining Suicide to Children
• Fact Sheet on Suicide 2006(National Adolescent Health Information Center)
• Fast Stats Self-Inflicted Injury/Suicide
• Frequently Asked Questions about Suicide (NIMH)
• Healthtouch: Suicide Facts
• Pitfalls: What to Avoid
• Suicide Prevention: Suicide Statistics in the US (CDC)
• Students' FAQs about Suicide
• Suicide and Mortality Fact Sheets on Adolescents and Young Adults
• Suicide Fact Sheet (National Adolescent Health Information Center)
• Suicide Trends Among Youths and Young Adults Aged 10--24 Years --- United States, 1990--2004
• WISQARS (Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System)
• Youth Suicide Fact Sheet (National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center)
• Youth Suicide Fact Sheet (Southern California Center of Excellence on Youth Violence Prevention, UCR)

Other (including Research Findings)

• Childhood Abuse, Household Dysfunction, and the Risk of Attempted Suicide Throughout the Life Span: Findings from the Adverse Childhood Experiences Study
• Emergent Suicidality in a Clinical Psychotherapy Trial for Adolescent Depression depression
• Free Online Workshop from the National Center for Suicide Prevention
• General Suicide Education (CDC)
• In Harm's Way: Suicide in America
• Is Suicide Contagious? A Study of the Relation between Exposure to the Suicidal Behavior of Others and Nearly Lethal Suicide Attempts (PDF Document, 71K)
• Media Contagion and Suicide among the Young
• National Center for Suicide Prevention Training
• Prevent Temporal Variations in School-Associated Violent Deaths (PDF Document, 131K)
• Preventing Youth Suicide in Rural America: Recommendations to States (2008)
• Reporting on Suicide: Recommendations for the Media
• Risk and Protective Factors for Suicide
• San Francisco Suicide Prevention
• School Gatekeeper Training (CDC)
• Suicidality and Help-seeking Behaviors in American Indian Youth
• Suicide among children and young people in Norway
• Suicide Contagion and the Reporting of Suicide (Center for Disease Control)
• Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBBS)

• Youth Suicide Prevention Program, Los Angeles Unified School District
• Evaluation of Suicide Risk Among Adolescents
• Study on Suicide: Training Manual
• Brief Cognitive-Behavioral Family Therapy for Suicidal Adolescents
• Adolescent Suicide Prevention: A Bibliography of Selected Resources
• Asian-American / Pacific Islander Resource Guide: Suicide, the Hidden Problem
• Crossroads: Coping with Crisis; Personal Wellness Handbook for The Youth Suicide Prevention Program
• Helpline: A Basic Text for Helpline Volunteers
• In His Brother's Footsteps: A Suicide Prevention Handbook for Teens (English and Spanish)
• Interviewing the Suicidal/Depressed Child
• Responding to Students At-Risk for Suicide
• Study on Suicide: Training Manual
• Youth Suicide Parent Information
• Youth Suicide: Crisis Intervention and Management

• American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
• American Association of Suicidology (AAS)
• American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP)
• The Befrienders
• Center for Disease Control: National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
• Center for Disease Control and Prevention
• Center for the Study of Prevention of Suicide
• Center for Suicide Research and Prevention
• Columbia Teen Screen Program
• LIFE (Living is for Everyone)
• International Academy for Suicide Research
• International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP)
• Mental Health and Suicide(Training Curriculum)
• The Jason Foundation
• The Kristin Brooks Hope Center
• The Link's National Resource for Suicide Prevention
• LivingWorks Education. Inc.
• National Adolescent Health Information Center
• National Center for Suicide Prevention Training (NCSPT)
• National Center for Mental Health Promotion and Youth Violence Prevention
• National Injury Data Technical Assistance Center
• National Institute of Mental Health Suicide Research Consortium
• National Organization for People of Color Against Suicide
• National Violent Injury Statistics System
• Oxford University Center for Suicide Research
• QPR Institute
• Samaritans USA
• SAVE: Suicide Awareness \ Voices of Education
• Suicide Information and Education Center (SIEC)
• San Francisco Suicide Prevention Website
• State Plans for Suicide Prevention
• Suicide Fact Sheets Based on National Violence Death Reporting System
• Suicide Prevention Action Network USA, Inc. (SPAN)
• Suicide Prevention Research Center
• Suicide Prevention Resource Center
• The Suicide Research and Prevention Unit (University of Oslo)
• Unit for Suicide Research (Belgium)
• World Health Organization Statistical Information System
• Yellow Ribbon Suicide Prevention Program