TOPIC: Suicide Prevention

The following represents a sample of information to get you started and is not meant to be exhaustive.
(Note: Clicking on the following links causes a new window to be opened. To return to this window, close the newly opened one.)

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
• SAMHSA, Ad Council, and Inspire USA Foundation launch National Suicide Prevention Campaign for Teens
• School Screening Programs (CDC)
• Screening for Mental Health: Depression
• Screening for Suicide Risk: Recommendation and Rationale
• Symptoms of Depression and Danger Signs for Suicide
• Youth at risk for mental illness and suicide: Screening instruments and assessment in SBHCs

Prevention

• After a Suicide: A Toolkit for Schools
• American Academy of Pediatrics Some Things You Should Know About Preventing Teen Suicide
• American Indian Life Skills Development/Zuni Skills Development
• Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands Commission on Adolescent Suicide Prevention
• CAST (Coping and Support Training)
• CARE (Care, Assess, Respond, Empower)
• Charting the Future of Suicide Prevention: A 2010 Progress Review of the National Strategy and Recommendations for the Decade Ahead
• Choosing and Implementing a Suicide Prevention Gatekeeper Training Program
• Education Commission of the States Suicide Prevention Site
• Emergency Department Means Restriction Education
• Evidence based practices in suicide prevention program
• Guidelines for Suicide Prevention: Policy and Procedures
• National Best Practices Registry for Suicide Prevention (BPR): An SPRC and AFSP Database
• National Council for Suicide Prevention
• 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 Teen Suicide: An NCSL Brief-2010
• Preventing Youth Suicide in Rural America: Recommendations to States, 2008
• 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
• Reconnecting Youth (RY): A Peer Group Approach to Building Life
• Research-Based Guidelines and Practices for School-Based Suicide Prevention
• School Based Youth Suicide Prevention Guide
• SOS: Signs of Suicide: A Middle School Program
• State Suicide Prevention Planning: A CDC Research Brief, 2008
• 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
• The Surgeon General's Call to Action to Prevent Suicide, 1999
• Teachers: An SPRC Customized Information Page
• Teen Suicide Prevention
• Youth Suicide Prevention: Analysis and Summaries of FY09 State MCH Plans for National Performance Measure # 16- A CSN Publication, 2010
• Youth Suicide Prevention: Strengthening state policies and school-based strategies
• Youth Suicide Prevention Programs: A Resource Guide

Intervention

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

Fact/Information Material

• AACAP Fact Sheet: Teen Suicide
• After a Suicide: A Toolkit for Schools
• "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
• National Suicide Statistics at a Glance
• 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
• Trends in the Prevalence of Suicide-Related Behaviors. National YRBS: 1991-2009. A CDC Fact Sheet
• WISQARS (Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System)
• Youth Suicidal Behavior: An AAS Fact Sheet, 2011

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
• Cyberbullying and suicide: a research summary.- A Cyberbullying Research Center Report, 2010
• Emergency Department Visits For Drug-Related Suicide Attempts By Adolescents: 2008- A SAMHSA Report
• Emergent Suicidality in a Clinical Psychotherapy Trial for Adolescent Depression depression
• Facilitating a suicide survivors support group
• Facilitating suicide bereavement support groups: A self-study package
• Free Online Workshop from the National Center for Suicide Prevention
• General Suicide Education (CDC)
• Guide to Engaging the Media in Suicide Prevention- An SPRC publication, 2008
• 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)
• Major Depressive Episode and Treatment Among Adolescents: 2009- A SAMHSA Report
• Media Contagion and Suicide among the Young
• National Center for Suicide Prevention Training
• Pediatric suicide-related presentations: A systematic review of mental health care in the emergency department
• Prevent Temporal Variations in School-Associated Violent Deaths (PDF Document, 131K)
• Recommendations for reporting on suicide: A Guide for Media, 2011
• Reporting on Suicide: Recommendations for the Media
• Risk and Protective Factors for Suicide
• School Gatekeeper Training (CDC)
• SOS-Handbook for Survivors of Suicide
• Suicidal People on the Internet: A University of Queensland (Australia) Study, 2009
• Suicide and Bullying: An SPRC Issue Brief, 2011
"Suicide" query prompts Google to offer hotline: A New York Times article, 2010
• Suicidality and Help-seeking Behaviors in American Indian Youth
• Suicide survivor resources
• Suicide Contagion and the Reporting of Suicide (Center for Disease Control)
• Survivors of suicide fact sheet
• The Impact of Social media on Children, Adolescents, and Families: AAP report and guidelines
• Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBBS)

Video Clips

• Safe Schools: Youth Suicide Prevention for Schools
• Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC): Research to Practice Webinar Index
• Prevention of Adolescent Suicide