LEARN MORE ABOUT SUICIDE PREVENTION

Education is our best weapon in the battle against suicide.

DATA

Suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the US and is one of three leading causes of death that are on the rise. There are 800,000 deaths each year, 1700 of which are New Yorkers.

World Health Organization (WHO)
http://www.who.int/mental_health/prevention/suicide/suicideprevent/en/

National and state suicide rates
https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2018/p0607-suicide-prevention.html

American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (NY State)

https://afsp.org/suicide-statistics/

NYS GOV

https://nyshc.health.ny.gov/web/nyapd/suicides-in-new-york

Suicide Risk and Risk of Death Among Recent Veterans
https://www.publichealth.va.gov/epidemiology/studies/suicide-risk-death-risk-recent-veterans.asp

RESEARCH AND REPORTS

TRAINING

For more information on trainings please contact Samantha Colson at samantha.colson@namirochester.org

SCREENING AND ASSESSMENT

Columbia Protocol for Communities and Healthcare

cssrs.columbia.edu/the-columbia-scale-c-ssrs/about-the-scale/

SUICIDE MEANS REDUCTION

MEDIA MESSAGING

Bethe1to   https://www.bethe1to.com/

Suicide Prevention Center of New York State: Safe and Effective Messaging (General, Schools/Youth, Media, Other) https://www.preventsuicideny.org/safe-and-effective-messaging/

Talking About Suicide and LGBT Populations

https://www.preventsuicideny.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/talking-about-suicide-and-lgbt-populations-2nd-edition.pdf

SPECIAL POPULATIONS

INTEGRATING CULTURAL COMPETENCY INTO SUICIDE PREVENTION

Mental Health Bytes: Suicide Prevention for Young Latinas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frKRxzRNpJ4

Latinas Attempting Suicide: Findings from a Decade of Research

https://www.preventsuicideny.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/ZAYAS-Comunilife-presentation-2018-5-23-FINAL.pdf

Hispanic Adolescent Females and Suicide Risk

https://www.preventsuicideny.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Latina-Adolescent-Suicide-Lit-Review_Silva-2018.pdf

Creating Linguistically and Culturally Competent Suicide Prevention Materials

http://www.sprc.org/resources-programs/creating-linguistically-culturally-competent-suicide-prevention-materials

American Indian and Alaskan Native Suicide Prevention

http://www.sprc.org/settings/aian