Helping to save the lives of young people in Idaho. ILP’s mission is to foster connectedness and resilience throughout Idaho’s school communities to prevent youth suicide. The Project brings comprehensive, evidence-based programs to communities statewide and strives in all of its efforts to help Idaho youth find the hope, help, and strength they need to flourish.
To achieve Zero Suicide among our youth through prevention, awareness, and direction to treatment around the disease of depression. Change: People’s thinking. Eliminate stigma that surrounds mental illness. It is a disease. A disease that needs to be treated like any other disease. It’s time to talk about suicide. Change: How we interact with people. Listen. Really listen. And be kind. A little kindness really does go a long way. Change: Change the way hospitals track those suffering from mental illness. We need to be able to reach out to them. It is merely adding one line to hospital admissions.
The Idaho Suicide Prevention Hotline, a program of Jannus, is committed to the prevention of suicide in Idaho. The hotline provides crisis intervention, emotional support, resource referrals, linkages to local services, and follow-up for all Idahoans, including those at risk for suicide and their families and loved ones. ISPH listens supportively to callers, empowering them to look at options and come up with their own solutions.
The Suicide Prevention Program was established in 2016 to help implement specific strategies in alignment with the Idaho SuicidePreventionPlan (ISPP) and provide a more comprehensive approach to suicide prevention in Idaho to reduce our state’s suicide rate. The program is supported by state general funds and housed in the Division of Public Health in the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare. It was created through an allocation made by the 2016 Idaho State Legislature and will initially support three priorities:
Provide funding for youth education.
Provide funding for the Idaho Suicide Prevention Hotline.
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) offers many resources including resources for emergencies, crisis services, and mental health care. This site offers resources based on the mental health care that someone might need. The AFSP provides resources for the treatment of the following mental health conditions: alcohol and drug addiction, anxiety disorders, bipolar disorders, borderline personality, cutting, depression, eating disorders, emotional health, schizophrenia, stress, and suicide prevention.
The National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention and the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline know it is possible to reduce deaths from suicide like we have reduced heart disease fatalities and other leading causes of death. For every person who dies by suicide annually, there are another 278 people who have thought seriously about suicide who don’t kill themselves, and nearly 60 who have survived a suicide attempt. The overwhelming majority of these individuals will go on to live out their lives. These untold stories of hope and recovery are the stories of suicide prevention, stories that inform the Lifeline and the Action Alliance’s efforts to prevent more suicides every day.
This site provides resources for suicide prevention, coping with trauma, mental health resources, and training. This site includes helplines, chatlines and organizations dedicated to helping those in distress.
The Community-Led Suicide Prevention project and this Community-Led Suicide Prevention Toolkit were inspired by the report, Transforming Communities: Key Elements for the Implementation of Comprehensive Community-Based Suicide Prevention, developed by the Transforming Communities Priority Group of the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention – the nation’s public-private partnership for suicide prevention.
We started HelpGuide in 1999, dedicated to our daughter, Morgan Segal. We believe her tragic suicide could have been avoided if she had access to professional information that gave her help and hope. We wanted to create an online experience that empowers people to help themselves create better mental health.
During the last 16 years we kept expanding and refining the website. We stay on top of developments in the psychological, social, and medical sciences, both through our own research and via our collaboration with Harvard Health Publications. HelpGuide has become a globally acclaimed resource serving over 80 million people annually.
The Jason Foundation, Inc. (JFI) is dedicated to the prevention of the “Silent Epidemic” of youth suicide through educational and awareness programs that equip young people, educators/youth workers and parents with the tools and resources to help identify and assist at-risk youth.
Lifeline Crisis Chat is a service of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline in partnership with CONTACT USA. It is the first service of its kind where crisis centers across the United States have joined together to form one national chat network that can provide online emotional support, crisis intervention, and suicide prevention services. The chat specialists are here to listen and support you through whatever difficult times you may be facing.
Would you know what to do if you or a friend was experiencing symptoms of a mental health condition? If you don’t, that’s OK. That’s why we created this infographic. Knowing how to recognize the signs of a mental health condition and how to respond is critical to getting support and care. Addressing concerns early can lead to better outcomes, so get the help that your friend, family member or you need.
The Ask Suicide-Screening Questions (ASQ) Toolkit is a free resource for medical settings (emergency department, inpatient medical/surgical units, outpatient clinics/primary care) that can help nurses or physicians successfully identify youth at risk for suicide. The ASQ is a set of four screening questions that takes 20 seconds to administer. In an NIMH study, a “yes” response to one or more of the four questions identified 97% of youth (aged 10 to 21 years) at risk for suicide. By enabling early identification and assessment of young patients at high risk for suicide, the ASQ toolkit can play a key role in suicide prevention.
The revised strategy emphasizes the role every American can play in protecting their friends, family members, and colleagues from suicide. It also provides guidance for schools, businesses, health systems, clinicians and many other sectors that takes into account nearly a decade of research and other advancements in the field since the last strategy was published. The NSSP features 13 goals and 60 objectives with the themes that suicide prevention should follow.
Helps individuals in suicidal crisis to contact the nearest available suicide prevention and mental health service provider through a toll-free phone number.
The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline’s With Help Comes Hope website has information for survivors, friends and family, and clinicians. It also includes a therapist and support group finder, videos, and a timeline of the attempt survivor movement.
Our mission is to provide the highest quality evidence-based prevention for suicide, violence, bullying and substance abuse by training, supporting, and empowering both peer leaders and caring adults to impact their world through the power of connection, hope, help and strength.c health problem.
In the United States, suicide claims the lives of more people than homicide and HIV combined. In addition, 1 million adults attempt suicide every year. Suicide touches everyone—all ages and backgrounds, all racial and ethnic groups, in all parts of the country. And the emotional toll on those left behind endures long after the event. There is help—and hope—when individuals, organizations, and communities join forces to address suicide as a preventable public health problem.
Founded in 1998 by the creators of the Academy Award®-winning short film TREVOR, The Trevor Project is the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) young people ages 13-24.
The Recover – Suicide Prevention Checklist offers help for anyone who wants a solid solution for their suicide issues. Take an easy suicidal prevention self-test, learn about nutritional deficiencies that can cause depression, neurotransmitter imbalances, prescription medication, treatment, and more.
To Write Love on Her Arms is a non-profit movement dedicated to presenting hope and finding help for people struggling with depression, addiction, self-injury, and suicide. TWLOHA exists to encourage, inform, inspire, and also to invest directly into treatment and recovery.
