Goal 1
Promote awareness that suicide is a public health problem that is preventable. |
Goal 2
Develop broad-based support for suicide prevention. |
Goal 3
Develop and implement strategies to reduce the stigma associated with being a consumer of mental health, substance abuse, and suicide prevention services. |
Goal 4
Develop and implement suicide prevention programs. |
Goal 5
Promote efforts to reduce access to lethal means and methods of self-harm. |
Goal 6
Implement training for recognition of at-risk behavior and delivery of effective treatment. |
Goal 7
Develop and promote effective clinical and professional practices. |
Goal 8
Improve access to and community linkages with mental health and substance abuse services. |
Goal 9
Improve reporting and portrayals of suicidal behavior, mental illness, and substance abuse in the entertainment and news media. |
Goal 10
Promote and support research on suicide and suicide prevention. |
Goal 11
Improve and expand surveillance systems.  |
