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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.
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Organized by suicide prevention organizations, Suicide Prevention Now provides a report on a poll reviewing the public's beliefs and attitudes about suicide and mental health. The website provides key messages and tools that people can use to support and communicate about suicide prevention.
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This report outlines the burden of mental health problems globally, including their impact on substance use disorders. It contains suggestions on how to scale up mental health care in communities as well as resources for prevention.
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This brief article describes a study that found that people who had experienced 2 or more disasters in the last 5 years had lower mental health scores. The author notes that the article and its findings highlight the need for public health interventions for people who have experienced more than one disaster within a short period of time.
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This 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.
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This webpage offers information on FEMA's Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMPG). Through the HMGP, FEMA provides funding to states, U.S territories, and federally recognized tribes, and those entities receive applications for funding from businesses, private nonprofits, and individuals (though individuals are sponsored by local governments and do not apply directly).
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The RSP is a CCP grant program that provides disaster relief and crisis counseling services for up to 9 months after a Presidential disaster declaration that includes Individual Assistance. State, territory, and tribal governments are eligible to apply. In their applications, which must be submitted within 60 days of the disaster declaration, state, territory, and tribal governments need to show a continuing need for services.
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Part of the CCP, the ISP funds short-term disaster relief and crisis counseling services to help communities in the immediate aftermath of disaster. The ISP lasts up to 60 days after a Presidential disaster declaration that includes Individual Assistance. State, territorial, and tribal governments are eligible to apply and must submit an ISP application within 14 days of the Presidential disaster declaration to be considered for funding.
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This document follows up on the 2001 National Strategy for Suicide Prevention. It lists six key action items needed to reverse the upward trend in suicide deaths. For each of the six key action items, smaller steps as well as priorities are identified. This resource includes suggestions for federal agencies; state, territory, tribal, and local governments; public health agencies; suicide prevention leaders and organizations; and others.
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This web page describes practices jurisdictions can implement to ensure that they reach whole communities affected by disasters, including individuals with limited English proficiency, individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing, individuals who are blind, and individuals in racial and ethnic minority groups. The page also links to several federal websites that can be reviewed to understand federal standards and guidance.
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This page provides information about funding opportunities for state and local public health systems. It is part of the CDC's effort to help public health departments nationwide improve their ability to respond to and prepare for emergencies. The page includes emergency response funding for crises and outbreaks such as Zika, Ebola, and H1N1.
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FEMA's Public Assistance (PA) grants provide assistance to government organizations and certain nonprofits following a Presidential disaster declaration. State, territorial, tribal, and local governments are eligible to apply for this type of grant, as are some private nonprofit organizations.
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This literature review explores the effect of quarantine and isolation during disease outbreaks, epidemics, and pandemics on the risk of suicide. It includes studies on the impacts of outbreaks and epidemics including the Spanish influenza outbreaks, H1N1 influenza, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), Ebola virus disease, and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS).
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The MHBG provides funds to grantees states and U.S. territories to provide comprehensive, community-based mental health services to adults with serious mental illnesses and to children with Serious Emotional Disturbance and to monitor progress in implementing systems through which these services are provided.
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This online resource provides access to research and findings of the nine Rural Health Research Centers funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration's Office of Rural Health Policy. Products available through the site include policy briefs, fact sheets, and journal articles, as well as recaps of rural health research and resource collections on topics including rural emergency preparedness and response.
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The RIC, according to its website, provides services for rural communities, local officials, organizations, business, and rural citizens working to maintain the vitality of America's rural areas. The RIC website contains links to current information on a wide variety of rural resources.
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As part of HRSA, the Office of Rural Health Policy promotes better health services for rural Americans. The website contains information about funding opportunities, policy, programs, and research.
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This report examines existing statistics and knowledge of mass violence events to analyze the impacts of these incidents and provide recommendations for ensuring effective preparedness and response. Created for federal, state, and local organizations, this resource aims to provide a wide range of information and strategies to mitigate the impacts of mass violence events.
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This fact sheet from the Center for Health Care Strategies describes key organizational and clinical practices necessary for ensuring trauma-informed care and services. It explores the effect of trauma on health and identifies key principles at work in different organizations in the field, explaining how they address trauma-informed needs through their efforts.
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This guide was developed for policymakers and others responsible for handling communication about a public health emergency, as well as professionals involved in development of risk communication plans. It includes recommendations on integrating emergency risk communication into health and emergency response systems and building trust with emergency-affected populations. The guide is also available in several languages other than English.
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An updated version of the 2013 interim guidance, this resource provides information to guide nations and regions in preparedness for and response to pandemic influenza. It outlines the World Health Organization’s responsibilities related to pandemic preparedness, describes the Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Framework, and offers guidance on pandemic influenza risk assessment and management.
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This report describes a study to identify promising practices for rural mental health and substance use-related programs across the United States. The report explains the importance of promising practices, defines and describes promising practices, and presents in Appendix C the programs included in the study.
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This book presents discussion and recommendations from a workshop on ways to improve mass casualty response in rural areas. The book includes a review of the incident that led to the workshop, a 2008 bus crash in Utah, as well as another rural mass casualty incident; challenges in rural emergency response; and ideas for improving response to rural mass casualty incidents.
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This document reports on the findings of a project to understand issues in mental and substance use disorder services in rural areas. It covers barriers to mental health and substance use disorder service delivery, model programs and policy strategies, and the roles of telehealth and state and local organizations in service delivery in rural communities.
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According to its online description, the objectives of the Rural Healthy People 2010 project are to employ a survey of State and local rural health leaders to identify rural health priorities, to synthesize available research and other publications on these priorities, to identify and describe models for practice employed by rural communities to address these priorities, and to disseminate this information to rural communities.
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