From Anya Shaffer, Suicide Prevention Program Coordinator, Virginia Department of Health
Events/Trainings
Get Ready for World
Suicide Prevention Day
September 10, 2014 is World
Suicide Prevention Day. You can find materials to help you plan and implement
activities for this important occasion on the International Association for Suicide
Prevention website.
Opportunities
Comment on SAMHSA's
Strategic Plan for 2015–2018
Feedback
Deadline: Monday, August 18, 2014
SAMHSA
is the agency within HHS that leads public health efforts to advance the behavioral
health of the Nation. This strategic plan outlines work to increase the
awareness and improve understanding about mental and substance use disorders;
promote emotional health and wellness, and the prevention of substance abuse
and mental illness; increase access to effective treatment; and support
recovery. An important component of the plan is to prioritize six Strategic
Initiatives and the linkages between these initiatives and SAMHSA's policy,
programmatic, and financial planning. At its core, this plan offers a framework
for common categories of initiatives that enables cross-collaboration and
organization of SAMHSA's work.
Download
Leading Change 2.0 Provide
feedback at http://store.samhsa.gov/leadingchange/feedback/
Resources
New Report Gives Voice to
Suicide Attempt Survivors
The National Action Alliance
for Suicide Prevention’s Suicide Attempt Survivors Task Force has released The
Way Forward, a report which gives voice to suicide attempt
survivors and bridges the gap between suicide attempt survivors, clinicians,
hospital policy makers, and suicide prevention leaders. The Way Forward
summarizes eight core values and offers a lens through which suicide prevention
can be envisioned to embrace safety and bring hope and meaning to those in
suicidal despair. Read The
Way Forward and the press
release about
this pivotal path for change and a roadmap to save lives.
Model
School Policy from the Trevor Project
Reducing the
risk of youth suicide requires making positive changes. To help make it easier
for schools to prevent, assess, intervene in, and respond to suicidal behavior,
The Trevor Project has collaborated to create a Model School District Policy
for Suicide Prevention. This modular, adaptable document will help educators
and school administrators implement comprehensive suicide prevention policies
in communities nationwide. Download our fact sheet and full policy today – by
adopting or advocating for this model policy in your school district, you can
help protect the health and safety of all students. http://www.thetrevorproject.org/pages/modelschoolpolicy
Office of Juvenile
Justice and Delinquency Prevention Releases Bulletin That Examines Suicidal
Thoughts and Behaviors Among Detained Youth
OJJDP
has released “Suicidal Thoughts and
Behaviors Among Detained Youth.” The bulletin is part of OJJDP's Beyond Detention series,
which examines the findings of the Northwestern Juvenile Project—a large-scale
longitudinal study of youth detained at the Cook County Juvenile Temporary
Detention Center in Chicago, IL. This bulletin summarizes the study’s methods,
findings, and implications of suicidal thoughts and behaviors among detained
youth ages 10–18. The authors examined rates of suicidal ideation and
behaviors, the relationship between suicide attempts and psychiatric disorders,
and differences by gender and race/ethnicity.
Sharing Our Wisdom: A New Resource for AI/AN
Communities
Sharing Our Wisdom is a new web-based resource that
presents stories of projects that promote resilience and prevent suicide in American
Indian/Alaskan Native communities. The first story in this series is from a
rural area of Alaska.
Suicide Prevention Resources for Adult Corrections
SPRC’s The Role of Adult Corrections Officers in
Preventing Suicide and Suicide Prevention Resources for Adult Corrections
provide information and resources to help staff in adult corrections facilities
prevent suicides.
Suicide
Reporting and Mass Media
Suicide is a significant
psychiatric and public health problem. It is not surprising that there is some
influence of the media on people’s thoughts and behaviors. Although it is
unrealistic to censor all potentially negative depictions of suicide in the
media, it is important to consider our responsibility to patients and the
health of the general population using our understanding of the role of the
media and potential interventions. The purpose of the present article is to
review the evidence regarding the relationship between suicide and its
depiction in mass media.
New Study: LGBT Youth More
Likely than Heterosexual Youth to Attempt Suicide
Based on
Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance Surveys (YRBSs) a new study examined rates of serious suicide attempts requiring medical
attention; results indicated that suicide attempt rates were much higher in
sexual minority than heterosexual youth.
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