National Suicide Links
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Prevention Related Links Survivor Support Links
Youth Related Links Miscellaneous Links
Prevention Related Links
The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
AFSP was founded in 1987 by concerned scientists, business and community leaders, and survivors of suicide in an effort to support the research and education needed to prevent suicide. This organization also offers educational programs and conferences for survivors, mental health professionals, physicians, and the public. This site contains a section dedicated to survivor support as well as a 1998 National Directory of Survivor Support Groups for families and friends of suicide.
American Association of Suicidology
AAS is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the understanding and prevention of suicide. This site is designed as a resource for anyone concerned about suicide, including AAS members, suicide researchers, therapists, prevention specialists, survivors of suicide, and people who are themselves in crisis. You will also find a National Directory of Support Groups for Survivors of Suicide on this site.
Baton Rouge Crisis Intervention Center
"Our mission is to offer prevention, intervention and postvention services that both provide support in times of crisis and reduce the impact of suicide in the community". On their site you will find excellent information on suicide prevention, help, and tips.
National Strategy for Suicide Prevention
A collaborative effort of SAMHSA, CDC, NIH, HRSA and IHS, presenting data and statistics on suicide and suicide prevention.
SPAN USA
The Suicide Prevention Action Network (SPAN) is a grass-roots, non profit organization dedicated to the creation of an effective national suicide prevention strategy. SPAN links the energy of those bereaved by suicide with the expertise of leaders in science, business, government and public service to achieve the goal of significantly reducing the national rate of suicide by the year 2010.
Suicide and the Elderly
Information, links and studies on suicide and its prevalence among the older age groups.
Suicide Prevention Services of the Fox Valley
Located in Batavia, Illinois (in the Fox Valley area). Dedicated to the mission of reducing and eliminating suicide and suicide attempts through education, advocacy, and collaboration.
State Plans For Suicide Prevention- Davis Hayden, Ph.D. (Western Washington
University) provides readily available current information on state
suicide prevention plans.
Suicide Information & Education Center
A library and resource center for suicide information & education. Also available on this site is information regarding caregiver training and information on suicide prevention training programs.
SA\VE - Suicide Awareness Voices of Education
The mission of SAVE is to educate about suicide and to speak for suicide survivors. This web site is an excellent resource and contains a collection of Public Service Announcements.
The Evangelical Lutheran Church of America
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) is the first formal faith community to issue an extensive Message on Suicide Prevention. The contents may be adapted to any other faith community.
With One Voice
The primary objective and aim of this project is to bring students, families, professionals, schools,
and communities together to energize suicide prevention. We use music and drama as a powerful vehicle to provide understanding and problem solving for kids in a language they can embrace. The MUSICAL stimulates a desire to help... The CRISIS PROGRAM makes it possible!
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Survivor Support Links
1000 Deaths
Christine Smith, survivor mom, Northern VA. The person who completes suicide dies once. Those left behind die a thousand deaths, trying to relive those terrible moments and understand... Why?
S.O.L.A.S. ( Surviving Our Loss After Suicide)
Based in Kalispell, MT, their goals are to offer support and an empathetic community for those affected by suicide. To provide a network of concerned persons available for the newly bereaved. To provide an opportunity for education regarding suicide and suicide grief reactions. To support each other toward healthy resolution of the grief.
Surviving Suicide
A web site for healing after the loss of a loved one through suicide. Written and maintained by a survivor mom, a support group facilitator, the Southern Nevada Community Organizer for SPAN (Suicide Prevention Advocacy Network), and a charter member of the Nevada chapter of AFSP (American Foundation for Suicide Prevention).
Survivors of Suicide, San Diego
Survivors of Suicide, Inc., is a nonprofit, nonsectarian, self-help support group for those who have lost a relative or friend through suicide. The Survivors of Suicide volunteers are dedicated to providing information and support to assist in the grieving and healing process. Survivors of Suicide holds monthly support group meetings in the San Diego area. Survivors of Suicide also publishes a quarterly newsletter and supports this web site.
The Gift of Keith
A website for understanding suicide by Carol Loehr, mother of Keith who died by suicide on March 29, 1999, when her own journey into grief started. Designed to help comfort and inform survivors of suicide, and to educate clergy, health care professionals and counselors.
Parents of Suicide Email support group
This web site provides an e-mail support group for parents whose children have died of suicide. It is intended to provide a place where parents can discuss, via email, the lives and deaths of their children with other parents whose children have died by suicide.
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Youth Related Links
B-SPAN - A Brown University chapter of SPAN
B-SPAN is a student organization at Brown University that is actively involved in suicide prevention and mental health awareness. Their main goal is to help others stop the emotional pain they are experiencing before it leads to suicide.
The Jason Foundation
The Jason Foundation, Inc. is a nationally recognized leader in teen suicide awareness and prevention. They make a wide range of informative, educational materials and programs available, at no charge, to parents, teachers, youth workers and others who are concerned about the alarming statistics that link our country’s next generations and suicide.
National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center
The NYVPRC was established as a central source of information on prevention and intervention programs, publications, research, and statistics on violence committed by and against children and teens. It is a collaboration between the CDC and other Federal agencies and serves as a user-friendly, single point of access to Federal information on youth violence prevention and suicide.
Yellow Ribbon Suicide Prevention Program
Because of the internal nature of depression and loneliness, thousands of youth who appear to be happy are screaming silently in the deepest emotional pain, what can we do? Find the answer on this site.
Youth Violence and Suicide Prevention
The National Center (CDC) for Injury Prevention and Control staff studies the problem of youth violence and suicide with the same kinds of public health tools applied to infectious diseases, chronic diseases, and occupational hazards. The mission of the Youth Violence and Suicide Prevention Team is to promote implementation of efforts to prevent injuries resulting from assaultive and suicidal behavior through development and dissemination of science-based knowledge, intervention, and prevention strategies, working with public and private organizations.
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Miscellaneous Links
National Injury Data Technical Assistance Center
Charts of injury mortality trends for each state with charts of the mechanism of suicide for two age groups. Each chart contains a link that allows a viewer to download a .pdf formatted MS Excel workbook containing the data that generated the chart and a high definition version of the chart suitable for inclusion in a printed reproduction.
WISQARS - (Web-based Injury Statistics Query
And Reporting System) is an interactive system that provides customized injury-related mortality data useful for research and for making
informed public health decisions.
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