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Community-Led Suicide Prevention

Community-Led Suicide Prevention helps communities come together to create and reach their suicide prevention goals. This web toolkit provides step-by-step information and how-to tools for comprehensive suicide prevention. Community-Led Suicide Prevention was inspired by The National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention’s Transforming Communities report.

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Each of the website’s seven main sections has information and resources based on one of the seven community-led suicide prevention elements.

The Seven Elements

It is most effective to use the seven elements in the order listed below. However, you may need to go back and forth between some of them, which we have noted on each relevant page.

Unity

Unity

How to develop broad-based support for a shared vision
Data

Data

How to use data to guide action and improve efforts
Planning

Planning

How to use a strategic planning process
Fit

Fit

How to align activities with community culture and needs
Integration

Integration

How to use multiple, complementary approaches
Communication

Communication

How to communicate clearly, safely, and consistently
Sustainability

Sustainability

How to create long-lasting change

Check out the Resource Hub, which lists all of the resources from the seven elements’ pages and more.

Strategic Planning Worksheet
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Strategic Planning Worksheet:
Put the elements together

Use this worksheet to help you plan across the seven elements of the Community-Led Suicide Prevention web-based toolkit.
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Suicide Prevention Resource for Action

Choose approaches with the best available evidence

CDC’s Suicide Prevention Resource for Action lists the approaches with the best available evidence to help communities and states focus on the prevention activities most likely to prevent suicide.
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