Suicide Watch Compilation - 2018

Suicide Watch as of September 1, 2018

August

August

8/31 - Stepping Up Suicide Prevention
8/31 - Smartphones, Evening Light, and Childhood Bipolar Disorder
8/31 - International Overdose Awareness Day
8/30 - OPP announces review, enhancement to mental health strategy following member suicides

Survivors of Suicide Loss
After a Suicide Resource Directory

8/30 - Alert: Secretary DeVos and President Trump could allow school districts to divert federal funding meant for mental health services and other school improvements and use it instead to arm teachers.
8/29 - More Mental-Health Services Would Make Pennsylvania Schools Safer, Report Says
8/29 - Youth Mental Health Call for Applications
8/28 - Panel: Doctors Should Focus on Preventing Depression in Pregnant Women, New Moms

Draft Recommendation Statement Perinatal Depression: Preventive Interventions

8/28 - Chickasaw Nation Honored for Zero Suicide Implementation Efforts
8/28 - Preteen suicides are rare, but numbers are on the rise
8/27 - PENNSYLVANIA: Making Schools Safer: Trained Security, Attention to Mental Health among Top Recommendations Full report here (66 page PDF)
8/27 - Suicide By Opioid: New Research Suggests Overdoses Should Be Classified As Self-Harm

Mortality in the United States from self-injury surpasses diabetes: a prevention imperative

8/24 - VISN 2 Center of Excellence for Suicide Prevention accepting applications for Postdoctoral Fellowships
8/24 - Autism Can Mask the Warning Signs of Suicide
8/24 - Characteristics of Crisis Line Users Who Died by Suicide
8/24 - Six Ways to Help Someone Who Lost a Loved One to Suicide
8/24 - Trump Signs Law Giving Suicide Lifeline a Makeover
8/23 - Teens are anxious and depressed, and turning to the school nurse for help. But most Illinois schools don’t have one.
8/23 - Psychiatry Rounds: Workplace Mental Health and More
8/20 - New Behavioral Health Resources Available for First Responders

Service to Self: Behavioral Health for Fire and EMS Personnel
Learn more about all of SAMHSA's training courses for first responders.
Effects of Trauma on First Responders: Volume 14, Issue 1 — 2018 (21 page PDF)
First Responders: Behavioral Health Concerns, Emergency Response, and Trauma (15 page PDF)

8/17 - Top 10 Must Haves for your Behaviorial Health Solutions Provider
8/17 - Using Electronic Health Records to Predict Suicide Attempts and Deaths in Outpatient Care
8/16 - Four Tips to Finding Grants for your Behavioral Health Group
8/16 - Why Do We Value Achievement Over Mental Health? A High School Senior Speaks Out
8/16 - Mini Quiz: Poverty, Inequality, and Mental Illness
8/16 - At the Heart of Depression: 3 New Studies
8/16 - Four Tips to Finding Grants for your Behavioral Health Group
8/16 - What Psychiatrists Need to Know: Patients in the Emergency Department
8/16 - Mini Quiz: Poverty, Inequality, and Mental Illness See article quiz is based on
8/16 - 2018 Children's Mental Health Report Get the report here (2 page PDF)

Behavioral Treatment for Kids With Anxiety
Best Medications for Kids With Anxiety
Why Childhood Anxiety Often Goes Undetected (and the Consequences)
How to Avoid Passing Anxiety on to Your Kids
Panic Attacks and How to Treat Them
What Is Social Anxiety?

8/15 - CANADA: New Suicide Prevention Project Targets High-Risk Nunavut Residents

In 2008 the Government of Nunavut, Nunavut Tunngavik Inc., Embrace Life Council, and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police partnered to create the Nunavut Suicide Prevention Strategy.

8/14 - Mental Health Checklist: 7 Parent Tips on How to Prepare Your Student for College-
8/14 - The President signed the National Suicide Hotline Improvement Act (H.R. 2345) today.
8/14 - Traumatic brain injury tied to increased risk of suicide
8/14 - Donated school books to focus on feelings

Preventing suicide among youth

8/14 - SCOTLAND: Pharmacists to receive ‘mandatory’ suicide prevention training

Scotland's Suicide Prevention Action Plan (25 pag PDF)

8/13 - Cultural and Population Sensitivity in Disaster Behavioral Health Programs The dialogue (29 page PDF)
8/12 - New suicide-prevention efforts target La Plata, Montezuma counties
8/10 - Improving the ED-to-Home Transition: The Community Paramedic–Delivered Care Transitions Intervention—Preliminary Findings
8/10 - MISSOURI: Children's Mercy Hospital Now Adding Suicide Prevention Questions to Check-Ups - SPRC -KMBC 9 News

Children Ages 12 and Younger - SPRC
Adolescents - SPRC

8/10 - Suicide Prevention Ideas for Action - SPRC (2 page PDF)
8/10 - Help the Helpers: Taking Time for Self-Care SPRC
8/10 - COLORADO: Longmont Library Launches Well-Being Bags to Spark Conversations about Mental Health

Supporting Action for Mental Health

8/8 - Suicide and Physician-Assisted Death for Persons With Psychiatric Disorders: How Much Overlap?
8/7 - Measuring TIC Practices, Efforts, and Initiatives
8/3 - 8/6 - Firearms Storage in Homes with Children at Risk for Self-Harm SPRC
8/3 - Teen Suicide Risk May Be Lower With Intense Team-Based Therapy SPRC Abstract
8/3 - NORTH DAKOTA: Law Enforcement Agencies Use New Tool to Prevent Officer Suicide SPRC Interactive Screening Program
8/3 - RHODE ISLAND: Rhode Island Law Aims to Prevent Suicides at Public Colleges SPRC Virtual learning lab for campus suicide prevention. (34 page PDF)
8/3 - Virtual Learning Lab: State Suicide Prevention APRC
8/3 - Firearms Storage in Homes with Children at Risk for Self-Harm
8/2 - Two Misleading Myths Regarding “Medical Aid in Dying” - Psychiatric Timese (Also, see 7/24 Millard Salter’s Last Day)
8/2 - Struggling to cope? An online 'mental health peer' can lend support
8/1 - Kids Need Play and Recess. Their Mental Health May Depend on It.
8/1 - House and Senate have passed the National Suicide Hotline Improvement Act. Awaiting the President's signature. AFSP
8/1 - Talking About Suicide in Schools AFSP
8/1 - The Most Important Conversation on Campus AFSP
8/1 - Returning to School After a Suicide Loss: For Teens AFSP
8/1 - Connect Students to Mental Health Services through AFSP’s Interactive Screening Program (ISP for Institutions of Higher Education) AFSP
8/1 - Bring ‘It’s Real: College Students and Mental Health’ to a Campus Near You AFSP
8/1 - Back in Session: How to Take Care of Your Mental Health in the Classroom - AFSP
August - 3 Things Mental Health Professionals Need to Know about Telemedicine: A Game Changer for Mental Health Services (Free 6 page eBook)
August - Interactive Screening Program
August - Division of Services and Intervention Research (DSIR)
August - Orygen's vision is for all young people to enjoy optimal mental health as they grow into adulthood
August - College Counseling from a Distance: Deciding Whether and When to Engage in Telemental Health Services
August - Primary care physicians’ perceived barriers on the management of depression in China primary care settings
August - Suicide among Hispanics in the United States
August - Dialectical Behavior Therapy—A Highly Effective Treatment for Some Adolescents Who Self-harm

Happened in August

8/30 - Webnar 3-4p ET  Using Case Management Data To Inform Practice & Develop Campus Trainings For Behavioral Intervention
8/30 - Webnar 3-4p ET  2-Part Webinar Series: Case Management & Behavioral Intervention
8/27 - Suicide By Opioid: New Research Suggests Overdoses Should Be Classified As Self-Harm

Mortality in the United States from self-injury surpasses diabetes: a prevention imperative
Concepts Matter: Ending the Self-injury Mortality (SIM) Epidemic is an Early 21st Century Imperative

8/27 - Making schools safer: trained security, attention to mental health among top recommendations Full Report (64 page PDF)
8/27 - A Parent's Guide to Resilience, An Evening Event by Gants Pass School DIstrict and the Why Try Organization, 6:30-7:30p, 725 NE Dean Drive, Grants Pass 541-474-5700 or dwerner@grantspass.k12.or.us
8/23 - Webnar 3-4p ET Mental Health Issues On Campus: Understanding Data, Recognizing Red Flags & Assisting Students In Distress
8/23 - Webnar 12M-1:30pm PDT Comprehensive Suicide Prevention – It’s More than a Mental Health Concern Register
8/23 - Webnar 4-5:30p ET Suicide Prevention and the Collaborative Care Model Register
Podcast Episode: Public Health Approaches to Suicide Prevention
8/23 - Public Health Approaches to Suicide
9/17-21 - 30th World Congress of the International Association for Suicide Prevention: Breaking Down Walls and Building Bridges
8/17 - Victorian Hospital Outreach Post-suicidal Engagement expands to include

Support Safe Care Transitions and Create Organizational Linkages

8/14 - Scotland: Pharmacists to receive ‘mandatory’ suicide prevention training

Scotland’s Suicide Prevention Action Plan (25 page PDF)

Due 8/10 - Indian Education--Demonstration Grants for Indian Children
8/9 - 9a-5p Youth Mental Health First Aid training - Gold Beach High School (Oregon). $25 lunch included. Register maggie.house@oregonstate.edu.or. or 541-247-6672
8/8 - SAMHSA) is hosting its annual Voice Awards 6-9:30p PT, UCLA's Royce Hall, Los Angeles, CA Register
8/7 - Webnar 1-2P ET Threat To Self & Others: Navigating Student Removal In A Manner That Reduces Legal Risk, Maintains Due Process & Supports Student Rights
Webnar 3-4p ET - Early Alert Case Study: Effective, Data-informed Intervention & Assessment Strategies
8/5-25 - Three week Rouge Youth Transitions early intervention outdoor youth program for middle school students. For more information: KARI.KINGSOLVER@dhsoha.state.or.us
8/2 - Webnar - 1-2p ET 2-Part Webinar Series: Case Management & Behavioral Intervention
8/2 - 8/9 - Webnar 12m-1p PST Using An Online Platform For Mental Health Outreach & Intervention
8/2 - Webnar 12m-1:30a PST 10 Essential Components Of An Evidence-Based Behavioral Intervention & Case Management Program

Happened in July

7/31 - A Son's Addiction vs. A Daughter's Addiction: Gender Differences In Drug Use and Recovery
7/31 - Addressing Depression: The World’s Largest Health Problem
7/31 - Major Depressive Episode: Is It Bipolar I or Unipolar Depression?
7/31 - Register by this date for video conference on Thursdays from 7:30-8:30 a.m. from September 13-December 5, 2018. Adult Psychiatry II ECHO Opportunity for Primary care clinicians
7/30 - Webnar, 12-1:30p PST Mental Health Issues on Campus: Understanding Data, Recognizing Red Flags & Assisting Students in Distress
7/27 - Two States Are Making Teachers Talk about Mental Health. Could This Be a Model? SPRS
7/27 - The Role of High School Teachers in Preventing Suicide SPRC (7 page PDF)
7/27 - A Historical Perspective on Suicide Psychiatric Times
7/25 - Webnar 1p-2:30p ET Developing and Delivering Effective Suicide Prevention Messaging: We All Play a Role! Highlight the Action Alliance’s Framework for Successful Messaging
7/25 - Webnar 1-2p ET National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention Webinar: Developing and Delivering Effective Suicide Prevention Messaging: We All Play a Role Register
7/24 - Millard Salter’s Last Day Psychiatric Times
7/24 - Webnar 3-4p ET Suicide & Bullying: Preventing Suicide through Collaborative Upstream Interventions (49 page PDF of slides)
7/20 - Are There Health Consequences When an Individual is Bereaved by their Spouse’s Suicide? AFSP
7/20 - Children's Mercy Hospital now adding suicide prevention questions to check-ups KMBC News
7/18 - Twitter Chat, 2-3p ET - Minority Mental Health Awareness Month
7/18 - Two for One Special: Med-Psych Physicians in the Hospital
7/17 - How to Talk About Your Mental Health When No One Wants To Listen - Huff Post

Racial/Ethnic Differences in Mental Health Service Use among Adults (49 page PDF)

7/11, Noon-1p PDT: How Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Can Help Prevention Bullying
7/10 - Webnar 12:30-2p ET Substance Use Disorders in the Zero Suicide Framework Register (54 page PDF)
7/2 - Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Sports Award 2018
TBD - Mental Health First Aid Class Register by Email or call 541-813-2535 (July Date to be announced soon.)
July - National Recovery Month
July - Minority Mental Health Awareness Month
July - US Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health
http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/couch-crisis/his-lovely-wife-psych-ward-interview-love-writing-and-mental-illness?rememberme=1&elq_mid=2474&elq_cid=3081348 July - National Alliance on Mental Illness
July - Recovery Month Toolkit
July - Proclamations, Statements and letters

Grants (Open)

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: Evidence for Action: Investigator-Initiated Research to Build a Culture of Health
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: Pioneering Ideas Brief Proposals
SAMHSA Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic Expansion Grants

July

7/31 - Best Medications for Kids With Anxiety Child Mind Institute EN ESPAÑOL
7/31 - What Parents Should Know About Risperdal Child Mind Institute
7/31 - Understanding ADHD Medications Child Mind Institute EN ESPAÑOL
7/31 - Is Your Child Getting the Right Medication Dosage? Child Mind Institute EN ESPAÑOL
7/31 - When to Worry About Kids Taking Multiple Medications Child Mind Institute EN ESPAÑOL
7/31 - How to Take Kids Off Medication Child Mind Institute EN ESPAÑOL
7/31 - Mania Linked to Beef Jerky That includes meat sticks, beef jerky, and turkey jerky, but not prosciutto, a dry-cured meat without nitrates.
7/25 - Cognitive Effects of MIN-101 in Patients With Schizophrenia and Negative Symptoms - Psychiatric Times
7/25 - His Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward: An Interview on Love, Writing, and Mental Illness - Psychiatric Times
7/25 - Refusing Prescription Opioids in Recovery - Partnership for Drug Free Kids
7/24 - Physical Activity and Incident Depression: What the Data Tell Us Psychiatric Times
7/24 - Physical Activity and Incident Depression: What the Data Tell Us - Psychiatric Times
7/24 - How to Handle Holidays After a Death in the Family Grief can make special days harder - Child Mind Institute
7/24 - Coping With A Parent’s Suicide How to help the children who are left behind - Child Mind Institute
7/24 - Supporting Children After the Suicide of a Classmate Responding to a painful loss in the healthiest way possible - Child Mind Institute
7/24 - Helping Children Cope With Grief - Child Mind Institute
7/24 - Should children attend funerals? - Child Mind Institute
7/23 - H.R. 2345, the National Suicide Hotline Improvement Act, passed by the House 379 to 1 Goes to the President for signing. AFSP
7/23 - Global warming risk: Rising temperatures from climate change linked to rise in suicides - USA Today
7/20 - Mini Quiz: Peer Support and Mental Illness
7/20 - Nonsuicidal Self-Injury among U.S. Adolescents
7/20 - A Simple Emergency Room Intervention Can Help Cut Suicide Risk NPR

7/11 - Comparison of the Safety Planning Intervention With Follow-up vs Usual Care of Suicidal Patients Treated in the Emergency Department

7/20 - COLORADO: Colorado Is Leading the Country in Suicide Prevention Work Toolbox
7/20 - GUYANA: Trying To Stop Suicide: Guyana Aims To Bring Down Its High Rate NPR

Guyana: National Suicide Prevention Plan 2015-2023 Report (52 page PDF)

7/18 - Calls to suicide crisis centers have doubled since 2014
7/13 - More than Mental Health: Reaching Men at Risk for Suicide
7/13 - What Educators Need to Know About Suicide: Contagion, Complicated Grief, and Supportive Conversations
7/13 - After a Suicide: A Toolkit for Schools 2nd edition (76 page PDF)
7/13 - VA Reveals Its Veteran Suicide Statistic Included Active Duty Troops
7/13 - VA National Suicide Data Report 2005–2015 (48 page PDF)
7/13 - CALIFORNIA: Suicide Prevention Spikes Will Be Installed on Coronado Bridge, Where More than 400 Have Taken Their Lives
7/13 - Reduce Access to Means of Suicide
7/12 - Racial and Ethnic Differences in the Prevalence of Depressive Symptoms Among U.S. Nursing Home Residents
7/11 - Two States Are Making Teachers Talk about Mental Health. Could This Be a Model? Dateline NBC
7/11 - Nonsuicidal Self-Injury Among a Representative Sample of US Adolescents, 2015 - AJPH
7/11 - Comparison of the Safety Planning Intervention With Follow-up vs Usual Care of Suicidal Patients Treated in the Emergency Department
7/9 - IRELAND: Extra Suicide Prevention Training Planned for Teachers The Irish Times
7/3 - Injury Control Research Center Briefs from the CDC - Suicide Prevention
July - Gun Safety Matters Challenge - Winners announced
July - Suicide rising across the US: More than a mental health concern - CDC
July - Guide for Suicide Attempt Survivors after Treatment in the Emergency Department (10 page PDF) SAMHSA
July - Guide for Emergency Department Providers on Caring for Suicide Attempt Survivors (10 page PDF) SAMHSA
July - Guide for Taking Care of a Family Member after Emergency Department Treatment for an Attempt (12 page PDF) SAMHSA
July - Predicting Risk of Suicide Among Individuals Who are Members of Higher-Risk Populations: Finding THE Needle in a Stack of Needles!
July - The Patient Safety Screener (PSS-3): A Brief Tool to Detect Suicide Risk in Acute Care Settings
July - National Guidelines for Suicide Prevention in the Workplace survey
July - 2017 Children's Mental Health Report (20 page PDF)

June

6/29 - Addressing Poverty and Mental Illness
6/29 - Why Do Adolescents Attempt Suicide?
6/29 - Job strain, long work hours, and suicidal ideation in US workers: a longitudinal study
6/29 - Suicide Risk among Pacific Islander, American Indian, and Multiracial Youth, Website
6/28 - Life after loss: Comparing student service member/veteran and civilian mental health characteristics among individuals exposed to death by suicide
6/28 - Smartphones, Sensors, and Machine Learning to Advance Real-Time Prediction and Interventions for Suicide Prevention: a Review of Current Progress and Next Steps
6/28 - VA suicide data shows vets still desperately struggling - Fox News
6/28 -Self-Injury Age of Onset: A Risk Factor for NSSI Severity and Suicidal Behavior
6/27 - Therapy Reduces Risk in Suicidal Youth - NIH
6/25 - Efficacy of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in Reducing Suicidal Ideation and Deliberate Self-Harm: Systematic Review (11 page PDF)
6/24 - FINDING HOPE, Battling America’s Suicide Crisis
6/24 - Rising Suicide Rate Reflects A Troubled Society
6/23 - New tool helps identify patients' suicide riskStar Tribune Abstract
6/23 - Talking and sharing are key to suicide prevention
6/22 - There's a severe shortage of mental health professionals in rural areas . Here's why that's a serious problem - CNN
6/22 - Safety Measures to Prevent Railway Suicides and Trespassing Accidents
6/22 - Women's Suicide Rates Are Increasing Faster Than Men's. We Asked Experts Why. Full report (8 page PDF)
6/22 - Young Men, Masculinities, and Suicide
6/21 - My View: With help, suicide can be prevented - Portland Tribune
6/21 - The Patient Safety Screener (PSS-3): A Brief Tool to Detect Suicide Risk in Acute Care Settings

Patient Safety Screener (PSS-3) and Tip Sheet
Patient Safety Screener (PSS-3) Pocket Card
Patient Safety Screener (PSS-3) Implementation Scenarios
Screening for Suicide Risk: The Initial Approach is Key (39 page PDF)
Suicide Care Management Plans
Caring for Adult Patients with Suicide Risk: A Consensus Guide for Emergency Departments
Preventing suicide in emergency department patients Online Courses
How Emergency Departments Can Help Prevent Suicide among At-Risk Patients: Five Brief Interventions Online Courses
Suicide Prevention Toolkit for Primary Care Practices
Zero Suicide website
Implementing Universal Screening for Suicide
Ensuring the Quality of Suicide Screening
Detecting and treating suicide ideation in all settings
Recommended standard care for people with suicide risk: Making health care suicide safe (23 page PDF)

6/20 - Intervention Shows Promise for Treating Depression in Preschool-Aged Children - NIH
6/20 - American Association of Suicidology’s Statement on the Detrimental Effects of Administration’s Family Separation Policy
6/20 - Rocky Mountain Short Takes on Suicide Prevention: AAS Lived Experience Part 1, Part 2
6/19 - Understanding the Relationship between TBI & Suicide - Veterans (60 page PDF)
6/18 - Mental Health-related Physician Office Visits by Adults Aged 18 and Over: United States, 2012–2014
6/17 - At My Darkest Moment, I Reached Out For Help And Chose To Live
6/16 - The Econmist

The sorrows of Werther: Suicide is born of despair. Suicide prevention is far from hopeless
The crack-up: Is inequality to blame for suicide, drug abuse and mental illness
The power food: Anthony Bourdain, chef, traveller and food-writer, hanged himself on June 8th, age 61

6/15 - What educators need to know about suicide: Contagion, complicated grief, and supportive conversations - Education Week
6/15 - Suicide-Related Conversations on Instagram
6/15 - Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance — United States, 2017 (Minnesota, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming don't participate in this program)
6/15 - Deaths of Dispair, The Econommist
6/15 - Increasing Awareness of Suicide Risks to Save Lives - AMA
6/15 - When I attempted suicide, I didn't want to die. I wanted to stop the pain: Guest opinion, Oregonian
6/14 - U.S. Suicide Rates Are Rising Faster Among Women Than Men
6/14 - How Childhood Trauma Contributes to Skyrocketing Suicide Rates - National Review
6/13 - Depressive and Anxiety Symptoms in Older Adults With Auditory, Vision, and Dual Sensory Impairment
6/13 - What happens when you call the suicide prevention hotline - New York Post
6/13 - AMA Adopts Policy to Improve Physician Access to Mental Health Care
6/13 - Calls to suicide prevention hotline spiked after celebrity deaths, but what's the next step?
6/12 - Mayim Bialik Talks to Kids With Depression video

What to Do if You're Worried About Suicide: A parents guide to helping children in distress
2017 Children’s Mental Health Report

6/12 - VA and PsychArmor Institute Offer Free Online and Suicide Prevention Training - 25 Minute
6/11 - Suicide: How You Can Make a Difference - NIH
6/11 - How To Talk About Suicide In A Way That’s Actually Helpful - Huffpost
6/11 - US states ranked by suicide rate (2016)
6/11 - School poverty and the risk of attempted suicide among adolescents
6/11 - Webnar The Importance of Suicide Prevention Research 3:45 p.m. to 4:45 p.m. ET
6/8 - Vital Signs: Trends in State Suicide Rates — United States, 1999–2016 and Circumstances Contributing to Suicide — 27 States, 2015 CDC
6/8 - Making sense of suicide when there were no signs - CNN
6/8 - 13 Reasons Why: An Opportunity for Prevention
6/8 - Q&A
Due 6/8 - Request for Information on Health Innovations for Suicide Prevention
6/8 - APA Calls Suicide Prevention a Public Health Priority
6/8 - 'We're so extremely busy:' More calling suicide prevention hotlines since celebrity deaths
6/8 - Vital Signs: Trends in State Suicide Rates — United States, 1999–2016 and Circumstances Contributing to Suicide — 27 States, 2015
6/8 - QuickStats: Homicide* and Suicide Death Rates for Persons Aged 15–19 Years — National Vital Statistics System, United States, 1999–2016
6/7 - WVU Researcher’s Work Stresses Importance of Suicidality in Drug-Related Deaths
6/7 - CDC: U.S. Suicide Rates Have Climbed Dramatically. Full report
6/7 - Suicide rates rise sharply across the United States, new report shows Washington Post
6/7 - Suicide rates have shot up in almost every U.S. state Science News
6/6 - Designer Kate Spade's death sparks national conversation on suicide - NBC Nightly News
6/6 - Kate Spade's death and the unintentional consequences of suicide coverage - USA Today
6/6 - Why Mental Health Advocates Use the Words "Died by Suicide"

Safe and Effective Messaging and Reporting
Evidence-Based Prevention6/ 6 - Substance Use and Suicide in Pacific Islander, American Indian, and Multiracial Youth
6/6 - Rocky Mountain Short Takes on Suicide Prevention: Never Worry Alone
6/5 - Kofi Siriboe Wants To Get More Black Folks Talking About Mental Health - Essence
6/5 - The Intersection of Opioid Abuse, Overdose, and Suicide: Understand the Connections
6/4 - A community-based peer support service for persons with severe mental illness in China (10 page PDF)
6/4 - Young men tend not to seek mental health help. Virtual visits are changing that - CNBC
6/4 - Gun Studies: Permit Laws Reduce Murders; Red Flag Laws Cut Suicides - NPR
6/3 - Puerto Rico Ramps Up Mental Health Training - NPR First Responders
6/1 - Suicide Prevention Training: Policies for Health Care Professionals Across the United States as of October 2017
6/1 - Recent Increases in Injury Mortality Among Children and Adolescents Aged 10–19 Years in the United States: 1999–2016 (16 page PDF)
June - VA National Suicide Data Report 2005–2015 (48 page PDF)
June - Suicide Prevention Facts & Resources
June - Addressing the challenges of the opioid crisis and serious mental illness
June - Suicide Rates in the United States Continue to Increase
June - Comprehensive, integrated approaches to suicide prevention: practical guidance
June - Substance Use and Suicide in Pacific Islander, American Indian, and Multiracial Youth
June - After a Suicide: A Toolkit for Schools, 2nd Edition (76 page PDF)
June - Recommended Standard Care for People with Suicide Risk: Making Health Care Suicide Safe (23 page PDF)
June - A Counselor's Guide to Mental Health and Wellness - Bradley University
June - CDC Vital Signs (4 page PDF Factsheet)
June - State Laws: Suicide Prevention in Schools (K-12) (8 page {PDF) - Overview
June - State Statutes - Suicide Prevention in Schools (81 page PDF) - Oregon, Hawaii and New Mexico are the only states that have choosen not to have ANY such legislation.
June - Veteran Suicide Data: 2015 Update

VA National Suicide Data Report 2005–2015 (48 page PDF)
Facts About Veteran Suicide: June 2018 (8 page PDF)

I have a copy of each but haven't found them on the web to pass on. I will update this as soon as I have web acceess to the info:

June - Keeping Oregon Safe: A Proposal by the Oregon Task Force On School Safety (2 page PDF)
June - Keeping Students Safe: Implementing A Statewide School Safety and Prevention System (16 page PDF)
June - Oregon Safe and Effective Schools for ALL Students Advisory Committee: Summary and Recommendations Report (37 page PDF)

May

5/31 - Kids' Suicide-Related Hospital Visits Rise Sharply

Hospitalization for Suicide Ideation or Attempt: 2008–2015 - Abstract
Increase in Suicide in the United States, 1999-2023
Helping Kids in Crisis: Managing Psychiatric Emergencies in Children and Adolescents $60.00

5/31 - The Role of Firearms in Rural-Urban Differences in Suicide in Maryland
5/31 - Mobile Phone Intervention to Reduce Youth Suicide in Rural Communities: Field Test 15 pages
5/30 - CALIFORNIA: San Diego County Expands Suicide Prevention Plan - CBS 8

San Diego: Working Together to End Suicide

5/29 - Protocol of an ongoing randomized controlled trial of care management for comorbid depression and hypertension: the Chinese Older Adult Collaborations in Health (COACH) study
5/29 - Why Suicidology Should Pay Attention to Moral Injury
5/25 - Frequency of Prescription Opioid Abuse and Suicide Risk
5/25 - ALASKA: Research Highlights Northwest Alaska's Suicide Prevention Work. Full article.
5/25 - CANADA: Saskatchewan First Nations Group Releases Suicide Prevention Plan

Saskatchewan First Nations Suicide Prevention Strategy (108 page PDF)

5/24 - Suicide prevention: Research network finds new way to predict risk (Kaiser Permanente)
5/23 - Are bullying perpetration and victimization associated with adolescent deliberate self-harm? A meta-analysis
5/23 - Common pathways to NSSI and suicide ideation: The roles of rumination and self-compassion
5/23 - Isolating the association of sleep, depressive state, and other independent indicators for suicide ideation in United States teenagers
5/23 - Differences in Firearm Suicides by Residential Location in Texas, 2006-2023
5/23 - The Effects of Publicized Suicide Deaths on Subsequent Suicide Counts in Israel
5/23 - Suicide Timing in 18 States of the United States from 2003-2023
5/23 - Childhood Maltreatment, Pathological Personality Dimensions, and Suicide Risk in Young Adults
5/22 - Black children commit suicide at twice the rate of white kids Science News
5/22 - Method overtness, forensic autopsy, and the evidentiary suicide note: A multilevel National Violent Death Reporting System analysis
5/22 - UTAH: The Role Faith Leaders Can Play in Preventing and Responding to Suicide

Faith Communities Task Force

5/21 - Age-related racial disparities in suicide rates among youth ages 5 to 17 years
5/18 - 8 Things to Remember if You Just Watched '13 Reasons Why' Season 2
5/18 - Method to Identify Undetected Drug Suicides Wins NIDA Award
5/18 - Estimates of Funding for Various Research, Condition, and Disease Categories (RCDC)
5/18 - SPRC - Commonly asked questions about 13 Reasons Why. Read More
5/18 - Recommended Standard Care for People with Suicide Risk: A Critical Step Forward (23 page PDF)
5/17 - Teens push for better services, culture surrounding mental health in Philly schools
5/16 - Inside West Bloomfield school's attempt to combat suicide, help students cope

Resources and Programs for High Schools
Making Educators Partners in Youth Suicide Prevention: ACT on FACTS

5/14 - Measuring adherence to antipsychotic medications for schizophrenia: Concordance and validity among a community sample in rural China
5/13 - UNITED KINGDOM: More Workers Ask for Mental Health Help

New survey shows rise in reports of mental health issues in the workplace

5/9 - Gaps remain in U.S. state policies on suicide prevention training
5/9 - What Would It Take to Prepare Health Care Professionals to Work With Suicidal Persons? AJPH
5/7 - SAMHSA Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Grant Program
5/7 - MASSACHUSETTS: Court Says Schools Can Be Liable for Suicides but Clears MIT
5/4 - Suicide among Mothers of Children Taken into Care by Child Protection Services
5/4 - Predictive Analytics Pointing VA to Veterans at Risk of Suicide

Military Service Members and Veterans

5/4 - ALASKA: Alaska Native Youth Find Strength, Resilience in Ancient Traditions
5/4 - INTERNATIONAL: Young Victims of Cyberbullying Twice as Likely to Attempt Suicide and
5/4 - Broad-Based Assessment of Suicide Data and Suicide Prevention Services through the Colorado National Collaborative
5/3 - Governor Bullock announces new statewide suicide prevention tool

Cognitive Therapy for Suicide Prevention

5/2 - SAMHSA Tribal Behavioral Health Grant Program
5/1 - Hospitalization for Suicide Ideation or Attempt: 2008–2015
5/1 - Five Ways You're Shaming Mental Illness and May Not Know It

Safe and Effective Messaging and Reporting

OBLIVIOUS: An Online Predator PSA
Gaming technology used for suicide prevention
Student suicide prevention plan in the works for Newport-Mesa schools
VR gaming helps California educators
This Video Game Combats Anti-LGBTQ+ Bullying In Schools
Can Computer Simulations Help Teachers Intervene With Suicidal Students?
How Do Emotions and Experiences Combine to Provoke Suicidal Ideation and Behavior?
K-12 Toolkit for Mental Health Promotion & Suicide Prevention
Treatment Works for Vets
Rocky Mountain Short Takes on Suicide Prevention: Treatment Works for Vets podcast interview
County-Level Trends in Suicide Rates
All of Us Research Program National Launch

Self-Harm
Self-Harm, Suicidal Behaviours, and Cyberbullying in Children and Young People: Systematic Review

A Parent’s Guide to Mental Health and Wellness for College Students - book
Many Opioid Overdoses May Be Suicides
At-Risk for PK-12 Educators video: Kognito Youth Suicide Prevention Program - 1:53
Kognito Webnar Power Point Slides on:

Threat Assessment in Virginia Public Schools: Model Policies, Procedue and guidelines 2nd Edition, 2016 (59 page PDF)
Mental Health as Part of a Comprehensive School Safety Framework - A Q&A Discussion (9 page PDF)
Responding to Trauma: The Role of K-12 Schools (44 page PDF)
Innovative Approaches to School-Based Suicide Prevention (16 page PDF)
Suicide Postvention: The Role of the School Community After a Suicide (35 page PDF)
AB2246 & Developing Your Suicide Prevention Policy: What School Leaders Should Know webnar (37 page PDF broken)

CA Model Youth Suicide Prevention Policy

Responding to 13 Reasons Why: An Interactive Q&A Discussion (8 page PDF)

13 Reasons Why Talking Points (1 page PDF)

Bullying in our Schools – What Adults Can Do to Make a Difference (Webnar only)
Introducing Simulations for PK-12 Educators and Peer Support (Video only)

At-Risk for Elementary School Educators (Video only)
Friend2Friend (Video only)

A Real Life Tale of Two Districts: Harnessing the Power of Kognito Conversations to Improve Mental Wellness for Students (28 page PDF)
New technology to improve wellness in Indian Country (20 page PDF)
Title IX and Trans Students’ Rights (48 page PDF)
Suicide Prevention Legislation and Our Schools (34 page PDF) )
Suicide Postvention in Schools: Responding Effectively! Preventing Contagion (36 page PDF)
Innovations in K-12 School Mental Health (6 page PDF)
Bullying and Schools: Keys for Prevention and Intervention (27 page PDF)
Satisfying AB2246 Suicide Prevention Mandate with Turnkey PD Solution (56:42 YouTube)

Blog Post: Responding to Trauma: The Role of K-12 Schools Webinar Recap
Blog Post: Does Your State Recommend Kognito as a Youth Suicide Prevention Program?

Oregon: Yes
California: Yes
Washington: Yes

Librarians emerge as unlikely players in battle against opioid epidemic (Oregonian)
Youth help line recruiting teen volunteers: Portland nonprofit opening satellite office in Central Oregon (Bend Bulletin)
Battling Depression and Suicide Among Female Veterans (NPR)
Mapping the rising tide of suicide deaths across the United States (Washington Post)
The Amazing Psychology of Japanese Train Stations (City Lab)
Red Flag Laws Are Linked to Declines in Gun Suicides, New Study Finds (Huffington Post)
Saving Lives, Losing Themselves (paramedics and mental health care) (US News)
It Saves Lives. It Can Save Money. So Why Aren’t We Spending More on Public Health? (NYT)
What you need to know about the doctor suicide epidemic – and how you can help
Children’s Safety Network Infographic on injury disparities including suicide
Research: Isolating the association of sleep, depressive state, and other independent indicators for suicide ideation in United States teenagers.
Center for Health Care Strategies: Trauma-Informed Care in Action Profiles
Guiding their way back: A resource for people who are supporting someone after a suicide attempt (beyond blue out of Australia) (40 page PDF)
Results from the 2016 Natinoal Survey on Drug Use and Health: Detailed Tables (2,889 page PDF)

Happened in May

5/30 - Webinar: SPRC's Effective Suicide Prevention Model, 2-3p ET
5/29-30 - ASIST, 10a-6p, Southwestern Oregon Community College, Curry Campus,Brookings
5/25 - Mental Health First Aid Class, Southwestern Oregon Community College, Curry Campus,Brookings, Free Register by Email or call 541-813-2535 (Training is full. Next one will be in July Date to be announced soon.)
5/22 - ACEs Training, 1-3 pm, Human Services Building, Medfordplease contact peter_buckley@southernoregonsuccess.org to sign up. For Professional Development credits for this training, please register at PD Networks.
5/18 - Warning: Season 2 of 13 Reasons Why breaks May 18 on Netfliex..Watch it with your kids for their safety. Know the facts. Have these supportive resources available for parents, students and stakeholders
5/14 - Promoting Firearms Safety among Veterans at Risk of Suicide 12-1P PDT
5/13-19 - Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration National Prevention Week
5/10 - National Children's Mental Health Awareness Day
5/10 - Associations between health-related self-efficacy and suicidality
5/9 - Webinar: Suicide Risk Assessment and Management for LGBT People 9a PT
5/1 - Resilience: The Biology of Stress and Science of Hope, 6 p.m. Northern Lights Theatre Pub, Salem FREE. More info: contact Michael Polacek at michael.polacek@salemhealth.org
5/1 - Drug, alcohol, and suicide deaths in the U.S. and the need for a national resilience strategy web forum 1-2:30p ET
May - First Responders: Behavioral Health Concerns, Emergency Response, and Trauma - (15 page PDF)

April

Timeliness of Death Certificate Data for Suicides - 6 page PDF
Navigating the Addiction Treatment System: Your Child’s Treatment & Recovery Roadmap - 7 page PDF
Few Sex Differences in Hospitalized Suicide Attempters Aged 70 and Above
Material Hardship and Mental Health Symptoms Among a Predominantly Low Income Sample of Pregnant Women Seeking Prenatal Care
Case study of an adaptation and implementation of a Diabetes Prevention Program for individuals with serious mental illness
Association Among Television and Computer/Video Game Use, Victimization, and Suicide Risk Among U.S. High School Students
Determining Suicide Risk in Trauma Patients Using a Universal Screening Program
Poor family functioning mediates the link between childhood adversity and adolescent nonsuicidal self-injury
Suicides Among American Indian/Alaska Natives — National Violent Death Reporting System, 18 States, 2003–2014
Suicide screening scales may not adequately predict disposition of suicidal patients from the emergency department
NVDRS Special Report - Deaths from Suicide among U.S. Veterans and Armed Forces in 16 States | Safe States Alliance
Suicide Prevention Toolkit for Primary Care Practices | SPRC
Suicide Clusters within American Indian and Alaska Native Communities: A Review of the Literature and Recommendations | SAMHSA Plus 56 page PDF
Suicidal Thoughts and Behavior in 33 Metropolitan Statistical Areas Update:2013 to 2015 : 2013 TO 2015 - Short Report 7 page file
NEVADA: Teen Sexual Identity, Childhood Trauma Linked to Suicidal Behaviors - Abstract
Youth Violence Prevention Interventions that Incorporate Racism/Discrimination Prevention
Executive Order to Improve Mental Health Resources for Veterans
WISQARS 2016 Fatal Injury Data Now Available
Rocky Mountain Short Takes on Suicide Prevention: Suicide Prevention Master Series with Dr. Jerry Reed 50:11 Podcast
Deaths from Suicide among U.S. Veterans & Armed Forces in 16 States - 58 page PDF
Herion,Fentanyl and other Opioids::A Comprehensive Resource for Families with a Teen or Young Adult Struggling with Opioid Use - 52 page PDF
After a Suicide: A toolkit for schools, Second Edition - 62 page PDF
Recommended Standard Care for People with Suicide Risk: Making health care suicide safe - 22 page PDF
Crisis Now Website Launch
Suicidal Ideation and Suicide Attempts among Utah Students 4 page PDF
HHS Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Parity Action Plan 9 page PDF

Achieving Parity in Health Insurance Coverage: 21st Century Cures Act Parity Listening Session

Happened in April

4/27 - School Connectedness and Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors
4/27 - More Officers and Firefighters Died of Suicide than Line-of-Duty Deaths in 2017

Study: Police Officers and Firefighters Are More Likely to Die by Suicide than in Line of Duty  

4/27 - IOWA: Governor Signs Mental Health, Suicide Prevention Bills and more

3:19

4/27 - MONTANA: Arlee’s “Warrior Movement” Brings Suicide Prevention to Great Falls
4/26 - Suicide: A Silent Contributor to Opioid-Overdose Deaths
4/26 - New Research Findings on Collaborative Care - blog post
4/25 - Many Opioid Overdoses May Be Suicides

Suicide: A Silent Contributor to Opioid-Overdose Deaths

4/24 - UTAH: Utah Lt. Gov. Hopes Ceremonial Signing of Eight Mental Health-Related Bills Spurs Conversations in Families
4/24 - MICHIGAN: Below A Michigan Overpass, Truckers Make A Safety Net and Video
4/23 - These teens saw how poor mental health hurt their peers. So they got a law passed.
4/21 - Rally to Prevent Suicide - West Front Steps, U.S. Capital, 5:00-6:30pm Register
4/20 - Classifying Drug Intoxication Deaths as Suicides
4/19 - Bozeman Pediatrics offering trigger locks for youth suicide prevention initiative

Reduce Access to Means of Suicide

4/19 - Functional Impairment among Telephone Crisis Support Workers: Impact on Callers
4/18-21 - American Association of Suicidology Annual Conference Press Kit
4/17 - Mental Health as Part of a Comprehensive School Safety Framework - A Q&A Discussion
4/14 - NACRHHS Policy Brief on Understanding the Impact of Suicide in Rural America - webnar, 11a Pacific
4/13 - Suicide Risk after Intentional Self-Harm in Adolescents and Young Adults
4/13 - PUERTO RICO: ‘I Sit and Cry All Day’: Suicide Hotline Calls Double in Puerto Rico Six Months after Hurricane Maria
4/13 - MASSACHUSETTS: Stopping School Shootings Before They Start: Mental Health Experts Push for Preventive Measures
4/13 - Age-Adjusted Suicide Rates,*,† by Race/Ethnicity — National Vital Statistics System, United States, 2015–2016
4/9 - Depression & Suicide Prevention for Older Adults training, Dt. Patrick Arbore, Meadow Lakes Restaurant, 300 SW Meadow Lakes Dr. Prineville, OR 97754 7:30a check-in, Training 8am-12mm Free
4/6 - After spike in kid suicides, new Virginia law puts focus on prevention
4/6 - Clinician Experience and Attitudes toward Safety Planning with Adolescents At-Risk for Suicide
4/6 - Getting Comprehensive in Our Suicide Prevention Efforts
4/6 - CALIFORNIA: City of Palo Alto to Install Suicide Prevention Cameras
4/6 - WASHINGTON: “Hope” Springs Eternal in Hoquiam School District
4/6 - Getting Comprehensive in Our Suicide Prevention Efforts

TRANSFORMING COMMUNITIES Key Elements for the Implementation of Comprehensive Community-Based Suicide Prevention - 68 page PDF

4/6 - INTERNATIONAL: Sexual Orientation Top Risk for Suicidal Thoughts in College Freshmen

Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors Among First-Year College Students: Results From the WMH-ICS Project

4/4 - Suicide & Maternal Depression: Uncovering the prevalence of maternal depression resulting in self-harm, 12mm-1p
4/2 - MINNESOTA: Police calls involving mental health have doubled. St. Paul now devotes a unit to them

Mental Health Unit

4/2 - Screening for Safety: Evidence-Based Tools to Prevent Suicide in Primary Care
4/1 - Hope Squads: Peer-to-Peer Suicide Prevention in Schools
4/1-31 - National Child Abuse Prevention Month
April - Addressing suicide risk in partners and relatives bereaved by suicide
Suicide Attempts and Completions among Mothers Whose Children Were Taken into Care by Child Protection Services: A Cohort Study Using Linkable Administrative Data

March

3/30 - Using chosen names reduces odds of depression and suicide in transgender youths
3/30 - Comparing Suicide Rates: Making an Apples to Apples Comparison
3/30 - Suicide Exposure: Perceptions of Impact and Closeness
3/30 - Suicide Exposure: Perceptions of Impact and Closeness
3/30 - Using Awkward Silences for Potentially Life-Saving Conversation about Depression See Video

Why Address Suicide Prevention in Schools
Middle School
High School

3/30 - Michigan Schools Help Students with Mental Health
3/30 - MASSACHUSETTS: How Many Opioid Overdoses Are Suicides?
3/26 - INDIANA: Instead of jailing those with mental illness, here's what Indianapolis is doing

Evaluation of the Indianapolis Mobile Crisis Assistance Team - 30 page PDF

3/23 - Underreporting of Suicidal Ideation among U.S. Army Personnel
3/23 - National Data Shows Firefighters’ Mental, Emotional Health Not Getting Enough Attention
3/18 - Prince Ea Video on mental illness
3/16 - Suicidal Ideation and Suicide Attempts among Court-Involved, Non-Incarcerated Youth
3/16 - Pediatricians Call For Universal Depression Screening For Teens

Guidelines for Adolescent Depression in Primary Care (GLAD-PC): Part I. Practice Preparation, Identification, Assessment, and Initial Management - 23 page PDF

3/16 - Montana Communities Receive State Funding For Community-Based Suicide Detection and Prevention

741741 Crisis Text Line Poster - Montana
Suicide Prevention - Poster - Montana
Handling a Suicide Caller - Montana

3/15 - Suicide & Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs): Preventing Suicide through Collaborative Upstream Interventions - 62 page PDF webnar slides from ICRC-S now available on-line

Hubs Help Native American Communities Address Youth Suicide
Hubs Help Native American Communities Address Youth Suicide

3/9 - Work-Related Perceptions and Suicide
3/9 - Twitter Updates Its Policy on Tweets that Encourage Self-Harm and Suicide
3/9 - Sexual Orientation Discordance Puts Adolescents at Greater Risk for Nonfatal Suicidal Behaviors
3/5 - Three-digit national suicide hotline moves a step closer
3/5 - Breaking down mental health barriers in agriculture
3/2 - Bringing Suicide Prevention to a School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
3/2 - One patient at a time, this Wash U program works to reduce gun suicides

Counseling on Access to Lethal Means (CALM) free two-hour online course

3/2 - Technology and Suicide Risk: Moving Beyond Fear to Opportunity
3/2 - Suicides Among American Indian/Alaska Natives — National Violent Death Reporting System, 18 States, 2003–2014
3/2 - Top 10 Causes of Death for Americans Ages 15 to 24
2018 Oregon State Report - How Do Counties Rank for Health Outcomes? 16 page PDF
State of Our Schools: Examining Oregon's high schools through students' eyes - Oregon Student Voice (OSV) - 41 page PDF
Is it Possible to Assess Short-Term Risk of Suicide?
North Wales Suicide and Self Harm Prevention Strategic Plan - 54 page PDF
C-SSRS for Communities and Healthcare
Trauma-Informed Integrated Care for Children and Families in Healthcare Settings - 4 page policy brief
Why Address Suicide Prevention in Schools?

Happened in March

Gender Equality Month - March
ICRC-S Webinar: Suicide & Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs): March 15, 2018, 3–4p ET - Register
National Youth Violence Prevention Week Preventing Suicide through Collaborative Upstream Interventions March 19 - 23
Trainings in March (Click here for all 2018 trainings)

February

2/9 - CALIFORNIA: Suicide Prevention Group Chief Calls Gun Club’s Ideas “A Game Changer”
2/9 - Preventing Suicide in Primary Care: A Newly Updated Toolkit Feb - Statement for the American Association of Suicidology Regarding the Role of Firearms in Suicide and the Importance of Means of Safety in Preventing Suicide Deaths - 4 page PDF
Identify and Assist Persons at Risk
Youth Suicide Prevention Referral and Tracking Toolkit - Maine Youth Suicide Prevention Program 26 page PDF
Media Literacy & Fake News - 14 page PDF
The Rationale for Developing Comprehensive Approaches to Suicide Prevention and One State's Experience with This Approach Broken
Comprehensive, Integrated Approaches to Suicide Prevention: Practical Guidance | Injury Prevention
Physical Health Problems as a Late-Life Suicide Precipitant: Examination of Coroner/Medical Examiner and Law Enforcement Reports | Gerontologist
Breaking Down Barriers: Using Youth Suicide-related Surveillance Data from State Systems | SPRC
Surveillance Success Stories: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation | SPRC
WISQARS Fatal Injury Data Visualization | CDC
2016 Fatal Injury Data Now Available | CDC

January

1/30 - Improving Care for Homeless Patients at Risk for Suicide Webnar 11:30-2pm PST (41 page PDF)
1/26 - Improving Care for Homeless Patients at Risk for Suicide - Webnr 11:30:00 AM PST - 2:00:00 PM PST
1/26 - Lethal Means Counseling in Hospital Emergency Departments
1/24 - Adolescent Suicide Prevention: Recognizing Teens at Risk and Responding Effectively 8:30a-12:30p ET
1/22 - Colo. Sheriff's Office to Pair Mental Health Specialists with Deputies
1/19 - Functional Impairment among Telephone Crisis Support Workers: Impact on Callers
1/12 - Addressing Despair through Partnerships
1/12 - CALIFORNIA: Warm Voice on the Line: SF Counselors Lend an Ear to Callers in Their Loneliest Moments
1/11 - Drug-overdose suicides may be going undetected
1/10 - Discerning Suicide in Drug Intoxication Deaths: Paucity and Primacy of Suicide Notes and Psychiatric History | PLOS One
1/8 - Entrapment as a Mediator of Suicide Crises | BMC Psychiatry
1/8 - Epidemiology of Asphyxiation Suicides in the United States, 2005-2023 | Injury Epidemiology
1/5 - Socio-Demographic and Mental Health Profile of Admitted Cases of Self-Inflicted Harm in the US Population | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
1/5 - Ending the stigma: Programs create conversations about mental health in Arizona schools

NAMI Ending The Silence

1/2 - Most big public colleges don't track suicides, AP finds
National Trends in the Prevalence of Suicidal Ideation and Behavior Among Young Adults and Receipt of Mental Health Care Among Suicidal Young Adults | Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Breaking Down Barriers: Using Youth Suicide-related Surveillance Data from State Systems | SPRC
Why Are America's Farmers Killing Themselves in Record Numbers?

I wrote about farmers' suicides – and the reaction has been overwhelming

Talking about Suicide & LGBT Populations - 4 page PDF
How Not to Talk About Suicide
Native American Youth Suicide
Recommendations for Reporting on Suicide - 2 page PDF
At-a-Glance: Safe Reporting on Suicide - SPRC - 2 page PDF
Yup’ik Communities Turn to Indigenous Knowledge to Prevent Risk for Youth Suicide and Alcohol Abuse
The Role of Law Enforcement Officers in Preventing Suicide - 10 page PDF
A Parents Guide to Cyberbullying - an 8 page PDF
Super Confidential Crisis Line for members to Law Enforcement - 800-267-5463
Oregon Youth Suicide Intervention and Prevention Plan 2016-2023 Tracking of Project Due Dates
National Strategy for Suicide Prevention Implementation Assessment Report - 50 page PDF
Suicide Awareness and Prevention Resource Guide - Includes floating training's calendarPreventing
Suicide among Men in the Middle Years: Recommendations for Suicide Prevention Programs - SPRC - 2016 64 page PDF
Opioid Overdose Prevention Toolkit - 28 page PDF
Continuing Education Courses (54) for Suicide Assessment, Treatment and/or Management (SB-48)
CALIFORNIA: Study Shows Transgender Students Are at Significant Risk for Suicidal Thoughts
CALIFORNIA: New Law to Require Suicide Prevention Training for Psychologists
CALIFORNIA: Under State Mandate, Glendale Unified Adopts Policy on Suicide Prevention
CALIFORNIA: CDC Report: Youth Suicide Rates in Santa Clara County Highest in Palo Alto, Morgan Hill
CALIFORNIA: Community Survey Gives Snapshot of Palo Alto Perception on Youth Suicide
CALIFORNIA: A New Emphasis on Mental Health for Cops, Other Officers

Law Enforcement
Justice System

Respond Effectively to Individuals in Crisis

Copline

California Law Spurs Reforms after Suicide Cluster

Model Youth Suicide Prevention Policy

Rocky Mountain Short Takes on Suicide Prevention: Suicide and Chronic Pain
CALIFORNIA: “It's OK to Say Suicide”: School Districts Set New Tone for Suicide Prevention Awareness

AB-2246 Pupil suicide prevention policies

Discrimination and Risk for Suicide in Later Life | The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
An Examination of Social Comparison and Suicide Ideation Through the Lens of the Integrated Motivational-Volitional Model of Suicidal Behavior | Suicide and Life-Threatening Behaviors
Concerns of Older Veteran Callers to the Veterans Crisis Line
Presence of Alcohol, Cocaine, and Other Drugs in Suicide and Motor Vehicle Crash Decedents Ages 18 to 54
Self-injury Mortality in the United States in the Early 21st Century: A Comparison With Proximally Ranked Diseases
Staff Views of an Emergency Department Intervention Using Safety Planning and Structured Follow-Up with Suicidal Veterans
Suicidal Ideation and Social Capital: Community Matters | The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
Telementoring Primary Care Clinicians to Improve Geriatric Mental Health Care | Population Health Management
Emergency Department Visits Related to Suicidal Ideation, 2006-2013 | Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project, AHRQ (22 page PDF)
Patients at Risk of Suicide: What Emergency Departments Need to Know | Aptus Health and SPRC
Preventing Suicide: A Technical Package of Policy, Programs, and Practices | CDC (62 page PDF)
Suicide in the Workplace | U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (17 page PDF)
Suicide Prevention in Indian Country | SAMHSA
Youth Suicide and Self-Harm Prevention: 2017 Resource Guide | Children's Safety Network (14 page PDF)
Acute Substance Use as a Warning Sign for Suicide Attempts: A Case-Crossover Examination of the 48 Hours Prior to a Recent Suicide Attempt | Journal of Clinical Psychiatry

Predictors of Suicide in Patient Charts Among Patients With Depression in the Veterans Health Administration Health System: Importance of Prescription Drug and Alcohol Abuse | Hyungjin Myra Kim, Journal of Clinical Psychiatry
Rapid Resolution of Suicidal Ideation After a Single Infusion of an N-Methyl-d-Aspartate Antagonist in Patients With Treatment-Resistant Major Depressive Disorder | Nancy DiazGranados et al., Journal of Clinical Psychiatry
Predictors of Suicide Attempt in Early-Onset, First-Episode Psychoses: A Longitudinal 24-Month Follow-Up Study | Vanessa Sanchez-Gistau et al., Journal of Clinical Psychiatry
Overdose - Drugs of Abuse | Jeanna M. Marraffa et al., Cancer Therapy Advisor
Heavy Cannabis Use Increases Depression, Suicidality Risks | Medscape CME
Alcohol Use and Fighting, Suicide Attempts in Students

Co-occurring Physical Fighting and Suicide Attempts Among U.S. High School Students | Monica H. Swahn et al., Medscape

Effect of Crisis Response Planning Vs. Contracts for Safety on Suicide Risk in U.S. Army Soldiers: A Randomized Clinical Trial | Journal of Affective Disorders
Evaluation of a Social Norms Approach to a Suicide Prevention Campaign | Journal of Health Communication
Exposure to Suicidal Behaviors: A Common Suicide Risk Factor or a Personal Negative Life Event? | International Journal of Social Psychiatry (8 page PDF)
Frequency and Methods of Nonsuicidal Self-Injury in Relation to Acquired Capability for Suicide Among Adolescents | Archives of Suicide Research
Opportunities to Intervene? "Warning Signs" for Suicide in the Days before Dying | Death Studies
Suicide Deaths with Opioid Poisoning in the United States: 1999-2023 | American Journal of Public Health | American Journal of Public Health
Acute Substance Use as a Warning Sign for Suicide Attempts: A Case-Crossover Examination of the 48 Hours Prior to a Recent Suicide Attempt | Monica H. Swahn et al., Medscape

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