This half-day training teaches individuals ages 15 years and older steps to identify people with suicidal thoughts and connect them to resources for help and support.

The Suicide Prevention Resource Center offers technical assistance, training, and materials to increase the knowledge and expertise of suicide prevention practitioners and other professionals serving people at risk for suicide. Resources include information on school-based prevention programs, a best practices registry, and state information.

The Disaster Distress Helpline is the nation’s first helpline dedicated to providing disaster crisis counseling. The toll-free helpline operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. This free, confidential, and multilingual crisis support service is available via telephone or text message (1–800–985–5990) to U.S. residents who are experiencing psychological distress as a result of a natural or human-caused disaster.

This tip card includes possible reactions, emotions, and conditions that can lead to suicidal thoughts and behavior. It includes information on warning signs that may indicate that a soldier is suicidal and factors that raise the risk of the individual’s becoming suicidal.

This section of the website of the National Center for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is for professional researchers, mental health treatment practitioners, and others who focus in their work on helping people cope with trauma. The website brings together free, in-depth continuing education courses with topics ranging from PTSD in older adulthood to cross-cultural considerations to suicidality to resilience.

This program equips army communities to prevent suicide, successfully intervene to help community members experiencing suicidal thoughts or planning, and support community members grieving the loss of someone to suicide. The program website identifies and links to resources for soldiers in crisis; training resources for an intervention model called Ask, Care, Escort (ACE); and articles, podcasts, and other resources about building resilience.

This 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.

This toolkit equips high schools and their districts with strategies to prevent suicide and support the mental health of their students. The toolkit covers helping students who are at risk, responding to a suicide in a school, training staff, and conducting outreach to parents.

Designed for nursing homes, assisted living facilities, independent living facilities, and continuing care retirement communities, this toolkit contains a suite of resources with information about mental health and suicide prevention. It includes a manager’s guide, fact sheets for residents, and hands-on training tools for professional staff and family members.

QPR is a suicide prevention training for participants to be able to recognize the warning signs of suicide and question, persuade, and refer people at risk for suicide for help.

The Ask Suicide-Screening Questions tool is a brief (20-second) assessment that healthcare professionals can administer in a variety of settings (emergency department, inpatient medical unit, primary care clinics) to gauge suicide risk in patients. The toolkit website explains how to administer and respond to screening test results.

ASIST is a 2-day training program that teaches participants how to assist those at risk for suicide. Although many healthcare professionals use ASIST, anyone 16 years or older can use the approach, regardless of professional background. ASIST workshops cost money to attend, with cost varying by training site.

This report outlines a national strategy to guide suicide prevention actions. It includes goals and objectives across four strategic directions: (1) wellness and empowerment, (2) prevention services, (3) treatment and support services, and (4) surveillance, research, and evaluation.

Veterans and their loved ones can reach the Veterans Crisis Line for free, confidential support even if they are not registered with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) or enrolled in VA health care. The VA is partnering with SAMHSA to operate the national helpline.

The Crisis Text Line serves people across the United States experiencing any type of crisis and provides free, 24/7 emotional support and information through texting with a live, trained specialist. Individuals in the United States can access the Crisis Text Line by texting “HOME” to 741741. Responders can make disaster survivors aware of this resource.

Designed for military service members, this web page discusses signs of distress and suicidal thoughts and encourages readers to get help when they feel suicidal or unsafe or are in crisis. It also identifies sources of additional information and support.

This web page provides information for farmers and families of farmers to help them recognize signs of stress. It also lists resources for coping with stress and depression and preventing suicide.

This section of the Suicide Awareness Voices of Education website links to online resources on a variety of topics related to suicide. Topics include populations at greater risk, resources for families and students, data and statistics, and mental health information.

This section of the Suicide Prevention Resource Center website features information for people who work with American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) individuals and communities. It presents basic information about the issue of suicide among AI/AN people, tools to begin to address the issue, best practices in suicide prevention and health promotion in Native communities, and links to a wide range of resources.

Designed for law enforcement officers, this free online course describes common stressors in the line of duty and identifies ways to manage stress. The course highlights signs and symptoms of stress, depression, posttraumatic stress disorder, and suicidal thoughts that law enforcement officers may notice in themselves or their coworkers. It also provides information on where and how to seek additional help.

This online article provides an overview of suicide prevention in the Marine Corps, identifies warning signs and risk factors for suicide, and highlights ways for Marine Corps members and their loved ones to ask questions and offer support if they are concerned about someone. The web page also lists helplines and other sources of additional support.

This guide discusses culture in general and American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) cultures specifically, highlights risk and protective factors associated with AI/AN cultures, and offers guidance to AI/AN communities in preventing suicide. Tools for community suicide prevention and assessment of risk and protective factors are included in the guide.

Designed for mental health professionals and researchers, this online fact sheet provides information about trauma, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and suicide. It presents suicide statistics, identifies types of trauma associated with increased risk of suicide (e.g., military sexual trauma), explores research on whether PTSD increases suicide risk, and highlights types of treatment for PTSD that may also lower risk for suicide.

This web page provides information on the factors that may lead to suicide. It lists warning signs that someone may be suicidal based on their behavior, mood, and what they talk about. It also describes the health factors, environmental factors, and historical factors that put a person more at risk for becoming suicidal.

At this part of its website, the Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC) provides links to suicide prevention plans for 54 states and territories. In addition, SPRC lists contact information for officials and organizations within the state or territory that lead suicide prevention initiatives, as well as suicide prevention grantees and reports on efforts in suicide prevention within the state or territory.