Recommendations for Reporting on Suicide
This webpage provides recommendations to news media reporters and editors on reporting safely on suicide.
Framework for Successful Messaging
This website outlines four key factors to consider when messaging to the public about suicide: strategy, safety, conveying a “positive narrative,” and following relevant guidelines. It includes example communications that highlight each key factor.
County Health Rankings and Roadmaps Action Center: Communicate
The Action Center’s suite of resources provides guidance and tools to help communities create change related to health issues by moving from data to action. This section provides activities key to developing communication plans.
Community Tool Box: Promoting Internal Communication
This section of the Community Tool Box supports creating, using, and improving communication methods within a group or organization.
Community Tool Box: Encouraging Involvement in Community Work
This section of the toolkit provides information on actively involving diverse people and groups in your efforts.
CDC: VetoViolence: Violence Prevention in Practice: Strategies and Approaches
This webpage covers the following: selecting a mix of strategies that can make a difference in priority risk and protective factors, identifying approaches that work together to advance the strategies, and choosing specific policies, practices, and programs that support those approaches.
SPRC: A Comprehensive Approach to Suicide Prevention
This model includes nine evidence-based strategies that you can combine for a comprehensive approach to suicide prevention and mental health promotion. Each strategy is a broad goal that can be advanced through many possible activities (i.e., programs, policies, practices, and services). It includes individual web pages with details and resources on each of the nine […]
Suicide Prevention Resource for Action
This resource from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) presents a select group of strategies based on the best available evidence to help communities and states focus on prevention activities with the greatest potential to prevent suicide. These strategies focus on preventing the risk of suicide as well as lessening the immediate and […]
SPRC: Strategic Planning Approach: Step 6: Implement, Evaluate, and Improve
This webpage describes criteria for ensuring activities are implemented as planned and documenting progress toward long-term goals. It also contains considerations for how to share findings from implementing the activities.
Community Tool Box: Developing a Strategic Plan, Section 3: Creating Objectives
This section of the Community Tool Box covers creating objectives.
