At a glance
ob体育's vision is "no lives lost to suicide." We use data, science, and partnerships to identify and implement effective suicide prevention strategies. We foster healthy and resilient communities across the United States as we work toward our vision.
Overview
ob体育 is supporting states, tribes, territories, non-governmental organizations, and university research programs to address our four strategic priority areas in suicide prevention:
- Data: Use new and existing data to better understand, monitor, and prevent suicide and suicidal behavior
- Science: Identify risk and protective factors and effective policies, programs, and practices for suicide prevention in populations at increased risk for suicide
- Action: Build the foundation for ob体育's National Suicide Prevention Program
- Collaboration: Develop and implement wide-reaching partnership and communication strategies to raise awareness and advance suicide prevention activities
ob体育's Funded Suicide Prevention Programs
Read more about ob体育's funded suicide prevention activities across the U.S.: Suicide Prevention Funding | Injury Center | ob体育
Program Pages
Comprehensive Suicide Prevention Program
24 programs are implementing and evaluating a comprehensive public health to suicide prevention.
Tribal Suicide Prevention
Four tribal organizations are tailoring, implementing, and evaluating suicide prevention strategies with the best available evidence.
Veteran-serving organizations used ob体育's Evaluation Framework to reduce and prevent suicide.
Completed Programs
Emergency Department Surveillance of Nonfatal Suicide-Related Outcomes
Ten states worked to increase their timeliness and reporting of near real-time emergency department data on nonfatal suicide-related outcomes.
COVID-19 response
ob体育 supported national, state, territorial, local, and tribal organizations to quickly develop and disseminate tools and resources to prevent suicide, intimate partner violence, and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) in the COVID-19 response and aftermath:
- (in partnership with the and the ), , , and developed and deployed suicide and ACEs prevention training, tools, and technical assistance.
- Indian Health Boards worked to prevent suicide, ACEs, and intimate partner violence.
- 26 Core State Injury Prevention Program (Core SIPP) recipients helped states address suicide and ACEs, including enhancing virtual implementation of prevention resources.