Community-Led Suicide Prevention Strategic Planning Worksheet
This worksheet and example will help you bring together your planning across the seven elements of Community-Led Suicide Prevention. It will also help you link your community’s suicide prevention plans with the evidence-informed approaches in CDC’s Suicide Prevention Resource for Action.
Getting Started Guide: Community-Led Suicide Prevention
Getting Started Guide: Community-Led Suicide Prevention is a step-by-step guide for community members on how to start working with Community-Led Suicide Prevention’s seven elements and successfully launch your local suicide prevention efforts.
SPRC: Strategic Planning Approach: Step 5: Plan the Evaluation
This webpage covers what is involved in planning an evaluation and why it is useful to work with an evaluation specialist.
National Guidelines for Workplace Suicide Prevention
These guidelines contain videos on nine recommended practices to help make suicide prevention a health and safety priority in workplaces.
Veteran Outreach Toolkit: Preventing Veteran Suicide Is Everyone’s Business: A Community Call to Action
This toolkit provides guidance, resources, and tools to support communities in preventing veteran suicide.
Walking Softly to Heal: The Importance of Community Readiness
These resources provide information on how to assess, understand, and measure how ready a community is to address issues like suicide, and how to use that knowledge to stimulate change. The Community Readiness Model, developed at Colorado State University identifies dimensions, such as leadership involvement, knowledge of the problem, and levels of community readiness, and […]
Suicide Surveillance Strategies for American Indian and Alaska Native Communities
This report summarizes findings and recommendations from SPRC’s exploration of suicide surveillance among American Indian and Alaska Native communities across the country. It is designed for any practitioners working in suicide surveillance who want to learn about challenges and strategies specific to suicide surveillance in tribal populations.
Qungasvik Toolbox: An Indigenous Intervention Science Model for Alaska Native Communities
This toolbox is a multilevel strength-based intervention developed by Yup’ik communities to reduce and prevent alcohol misuse disorder and suicide in 12-18 year old Yup’ik Alaska Native youth. It focuses on culturally meaningful “reasons for sobriety” and “reasons for life.” An operations manual describes the community-level cultural implementation process along with specific prevention activities that […]
Promoting Emotional Health and Preventing Suicide: A Toolkit for Senior Centers
This toolkit helps senior centers integrate suicide prevention into activities that support well-being. It describes activities that increase protective factors, and explains how to recognize the warning signs of suicide.
After a Suicide: A Toolkit for Schools, Second Edition
This toolkit assists schools in implementing a coordinated response to the suicide death of a student. It is designed primarily for administrators and staff but can also be useful for parents and communities. It includes information, resource lists, tools, and examples of how different communities have addressed specific issues in responding to a suicide death.
