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This resource describes evidence-supported strategies for states and communities to use to implement suicide prevention activities and reduce suicide risk. The guide offers an overview of suicide as a preventable public health problem, explains evidence criteria for inclusion in the guide, and details and expands upon each strategy.
View ResourceThis guide outlines the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention’s work in fiscal year (FY) 2023 in areas including communications and awareness, programs, and research. The guide includes links to information and opportunities to engage in awareness activities and trainings.
View ResourceThis guide provides the details of the psychological first aid model, which uses an evidence-informed approach for assisting children, adolescents, adults, and families in the aftermath of disaster and terrorism.
View ResourceThe guide was adapted from the Psychological First Aid Operations Guide (2nd Edition), with permission from the National Child Traumatic Stress Network and the National Center for PTSD.
View ResourceThis guide provides an adaptation of the psychological first aid model that shelter providers can use when working with families experiencing homelessness.
View ResourceThis guide provides suicide facts and figures, information on the role of first responders in suicide prevention, and information on helping someone who is suicidal. It offers information that may be helpful to managers of first responders as they plan, implement, and assess training and programs to prepare responders to work with individuals experiencing suicidality or scenes in which a suicide has been completed.
View ResourceThis suicide assessment can be used by mental health professionals during their first contact with an individual at risk of suicidal behavior and completed suicide. The five-step assessment includes identification of risk and protective factors; conducting an inquiry about suicidality; determining level of risk and selecting an appropriate intervention; and documenting the process, including a follow-up plan.
View ResourceThis adaptation of the psychological first aid model is designed to be used when working with youth who are experiencing homelessness. The guide provides a framework and a model for direct care staff working in drop-in centers, emergency and transitional shelters, and group homes so they can better understand and address the needs of homeless youth who are often impacted by trauma.
View ResourceThis adaptation of the guide gives community religious professionals an introduction and overview to PFA, described as an evidence-informed approach for assisting children, adolescents, adults, and families in the aftermath of disaster and terrorism. The manual also provides information on core actions of PFA that community religious professionals can use following a disaster.
View ResourceThe goal of this paper is to develop consensus-based guidelines for training in mental health and psychosocial interventions for trauma-exposed populations in the international arena.
View ResourceA comprehensive compilation of mental health first aid guidelines, including tips for helping adults and children through a disaster or traumatic event.
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