Maine 's Suicide Prevention Program

If a person has a suicide related crisis, what should they do? A good place to start is calling 1-800-273-TALK. This is the National Suicide Helpline, and is an immediate resource to someone in crisis. Several centers around the United States maintain the helpline and provided suicide related services to their community. One of the centers in Colorado is Pueblo Suicide Prevention Center. The agency has been working with suicide related issues for over forty years and has many accomplishments. The agency works with several different types of people, and also serves their community by working with students in different educational institutions. Most recently, the center has worked with a student from the Social Work Program at Colorado

Surgeon General and of the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention, National Strategy for Suicide Prevention: Goals and Objectives for Action, 2012 recognizes that prevention should be combined in all fragments of our lives, family members, health care providers, educators, communities and government should be working together in preventing suicide. Goals and objectives are directed to “create supportive environments that promote healthy and empowered individuals, families, and communities; enhance clinical and community preventive services; promote the availability of timely treatment and support services, and improve suicide prevention surveillance collection, research, and evaluation” (National Strategy for Suicide Prevention: Goals and Objectives for Action,

Death by acute actions can lessen in Montana if there is more awareness and prevention. With the help of communities coming together suicide education can be expanded to not only across Montana, but across the nation. Positive advertisements about depression and

Healthy People 2020 is a government site that identifies health concerns based on statistics observed and collected over a ten-year period. Mental Health and Mental Disorders is one of the many health concerns or topics listed on their website and has been further subcategorized into objectives and goals (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services [HHS], 2015). The first objective listed under this topic states “reduce the suicide rate” (HHS, 2015). The goal of this objective is to “reduce the suicide rate by ten percent” (HHS, 2015). Suicide is prevalent among varying age groups, ethnicities, and genders (HHS, 2012). It is an increasing problem prompting Healthy People 2020 to label it as a Leading Health Indicator or an extremely important issue (HHS, 2015). To meet their goal, Healthy People 2020 partnered with the U. S. Surgeon General and the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention (NAASP) to create a plan that can be utilized throughout the nation. Their plan focuses on removing the stigma associated with mental health and mental health disorders while simultaneously building supportive communities with increased access to care, creating a standardized model promoting the collaboration of health care professionals in order to increase identification and data collection of high-risk patients and provide continuity of care, and ensuring the education and the adequacy of patient support systems.

As a social worker, I know that my clients are coming to me in a time in their lives where they need help, and some these clients are affected by suicide. Therefore, I must be aware of the current programs and service being utilized in the field of practice to prevent suicide. In this section, I will be identifying current services and programs aimed at preventing suicide among military service members and veterans. Additionally, I will address the effectiveness of these programs and services, what research has been conducted to evaluate these services, and what still needs to be explored. My primary focus in my review of these programs and services will be the role of social worker, and how the social worker

The Crisis Centers will follow-up with any individual at imminent risk of suicide within 48-hours of discharge from a partnering emergency department or who was referred from a crisis center to a partnering emergency department.

Due to the variety of different programs that were implemented by grantees, there were many different evaluation techniques. Therefore, not all suicide prevention program evaluations were comparable (Goldston et al., 2010). However, these evaluations were helpful in informing changes in programming based on locality. Cross-site evaluations were also conducted under the GLSMA. According to Goldston et al (2010), these evaluations were more thorough, consisting of four main stages. First, evaluators aimed to get a better understanding of the environment in which the suicide prevention programs were being implemented. Next, evaluators examined the development, utilization, and budget allocation of programs and services. Evaluators then looked at key activities related to the implementation of each suicide prevention plan that was developed by grantees in order to receive federal funding. Finally, evaluators examined the impact that the programs had on participants that were considered to be at a higher risk of suicide. These evaluations were primarily used for federal performance measurement and program management. As evidenced by the many methods of evaluation utilized under the GLSMA, it is clear that the effectiveness and feasibility of these services are of high

One of the goals of Healthy People 2020 is to reduce the suicide rate in the U.S. which is currently one of the top 10 causes of death. It is clearly in issue and vital to address this issue because these rates have had a steady incline from 1999-2014. This had led to an age-related suicide rate of 24% because it has gone from 10.5 to 13.0 deaths per 100,000. With such a modernized country, I would think that we would have done something about this earlier on by having more programs and being more proactive about this gruesome problem.

Teen suicide is increasing in America in teens age’s 14-17,young males,minorities;through the availability of guns,alcohol,drugs,and lack of support.

With this study, I think it should have been easy to identify the most at risk states or even regions, which could help those of us in suicide prevention, the sheriffs and or lawmakers want to work toward improving suicide prevention policies, guidelines, training, and assessment tools within the most impacted jail systems. It would have been a plus to the readers to identify if these problems exist nationwide, or if they are more prevalent in specific areas. This would also identify if there are better systems that could be mimicked, so those policies and prevention methods could be implemented in the jail systems that seem to have a bigger suicide rate of their

Over 1,000 people die from suicide each year in Illinois each year, and most of these people are teens, ranging from fifteen to nineteen years old. This sounds

The organization was tasked with establishing goals and objectives to prevent suicide across the nation (“Goals and Objectives” 1). Though the initiatives the National Strategy of Suicide Prevention set in place may be effective, suicide rates continue to climb amongst

The demographics of suicide shift significantly from state to state. Some states, similar to Pennsylvania, have suicide rates that are near the national normal; others, for example, Connecticut, have essentially bring down rates. Nonetheless, different states have much higher rates than the national normal. These varieties are

Suicide is a private, social and public health issue facing the youth of America especially the Native American community of Lake County, Montana. Native Americans

Prof Ella Arensman, the foundation’s director of research, said research shows that the approach proved highly effective in helping to prevent suicide and improve services for those most at risk. The programme involves large-scale training of professionals, high-quality services for those at risk and much closer links between health services and accredited services in the community. The model led to a fall of