SPRC State Infrastructure Update

October 2019 Update

SPRC’s newly released State Suicide Prevention Infrastructure recommendations lay out essential infrastructure elements for advancing state suicide prevention efforts. Read on for updates related to these recommendations, including upcoming events, new content, and more!

Upcoming Webinar

Building Suicide Prevention Infrastructure in your State

October 30, 2019, 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. ET

Does your state have the roads to build a suicide prevention superhighway? Or are they full of potholes? On October 30, from 3 to 4 p.m. ET, join the Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC), the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, and NAMI New Hampshire, to learn about SPRC’s newly released Recommendations for State Suicide Prevention Infrastructure. Presenters will describe how you can use the recommendations to pave the way to success in your state and provide tools to help. Ken Norton, Executive Director of NAMI New Hampshire, will share lessons learned in building state suicide prevention infrastructure, and how it has made a difference.

State Infrastructure Success Stories

Minnesota’s Suicide-Related Data Plan . This success story describes how the state of Minnesota gathers, analyzes, and disseminates suicide prevention data, and how its suicide-related data plan has helped achieve improvements in data collection, analysis, reporting, and use.

Arizona’s Comprehensive Crisis Care System . Wondering what the elements of a comprehensive crisis care infrastructure might look like? This success story describes how the state of Arizona worked with partner organizations to fund and support their crisis system, and how the state coordinates follow-up care and monitors costs and savings.

Colorado’s Office of Suicide Prevention and Suicide Prevention Commission . Two key parts of Colorado’s infrastructure are its Office of Suicide Prevention and its Suicide Prevention Commission. This success story outlines their development and how they partner with state agencies, private organizations, and other stakeholders; take a lead in Colorado’s suicide prevention efforts; and make evidence-based recommendations.

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State Infrastructure Tools

Suicide State Fact Sheets (from the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention). These fact sheets contain state-specific information about existing suicide prevention leadership structure and legislation. They also include data to help you make the case for improving infrastructure in your state.

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In Case You Missed It...

Building a Lasting Foundation for Suicide Prevention . This Director's Corner by SPRC Director Elly Stout and SPRC Manager of Special Initiatives Julie Ebin talks about how to build a stronger state suicide prevention infrastructure.

Suicide Prevention: Let’s Build a Stronger State Foundation. In this post on EDC’s Innovations blog, SPRC Director Elly Stout reflects on the critical role that state infrastructure plays in supporting long-term suicide prevention efforts.

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The Suicide Prevention Resource Center at EDC is supported by a grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS), under Grant No. 5U79SM062297. The views, opinions, and content expressed in this product do not necessarily reflect the views, opinions, or policies of CMHS, SAMHSA, or HHS.