Suicide Prevention Programs-Suicide Help Resources

Yellow Ribbon International Suicide Prevention Program®

Yellow Ribbon International Suicide Prevention Program® YellowRibbon.org - For the prevention of teen suicide. The Yellow Ribbon program was founded in 1994 by the parents of a bright, funny, loving teen, Mike Emme, who took his life when he did not know the words to say, or how to let someone know he was in trouble and needed help. We truly believe the words on the front of the card that we said to those first teens were divinely inspired. We are even more convinced that this program is all divinely inspired by the fact that over 2,500 precious youth lives have been saved through this program. We aren't the first, nor the only, parents who have said, or are saying these words... but kids heard them and now are hearing them around the world! We agree with the saying from our ancestors: "It takes a village to raise a child"..... we add: " It takes a village to save a child". We are asking you to help! Please put the Yellow Ribbon Suicide Prevention Program® into your life - spread the word, distribute the cards, wear a Yellow Ribbon, start the program in your community-school-work-church-LIFE, reach out to youth and let them know you care. The Yellow Ribbon Suicide Prevention Program as a valuable and timely contribution to the fight against youth suicide. Young people are our most valuable asset. A Yellow Ribbon Card, in itself is a simple and inexpensive thing. This program can help to restore in individuals the feeling that they are valued.

CrisisLink: Adult Suicide Myths

Our mission is powerful: We save lives by providing support for those facing life crisis, trauma and suicide. We offer: A 24/7 Hotline, "You Talk. We Listen." - Stress Relief Program for Teens, Support Groups, Community Crisis Response, CareRing, Business Crisis Response Training, Suicide Resource Information & Referral. We provide communities with assistance and training so they may better understand and respond to those needing support to cope with these life challenges. CrisisLink saves lives by providing vital support for those facing life crisis, trauma and suicide. Provides business, community, and organization crisis intervention and training. Call us anytime at 703-527-4077 or 1-800-SUICIDE - CrisisLink has been featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show, in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, Washingtonian Magazine, and the Wall Street Journal for our innovative programs, support services and community trainings. We invite you to get to know us; use us as a resource. Whether through the web, by phone, in our training classes, or through our crisis response team, we are here for you.

Suicide Prevention - The Jason Foundation

In 1997, The Jason Foundation was founded in response to a family’s personal grief and deep commitment to saving youths’ lives. Clark Flatt, President and Founder of the Jason Foundation, lost his youngest sixteen year-old son, Jason, to the silent epidemic of youth suicide and turned his energies toward reducing the number of youth suicides. The Jason Foundation, Inc. is a nationally recognized leader in youth suicide awareness, education and prevention. We provide information, education programs and resources to parents, educators, youth and others who want to help in the fight against the “silent epidemic” of youth suicide. We believe that by working together, we can help save lives. It is very important to us that we educate people about the alarming statistics of youth suicide and then begin to work together toward prevention. You have taken a step to help fighting this problem simply by clicking on our website. For more information and/or resources provided by the Jason Foundation and to learn more about how to help prevent youth suicide visit us NOW.

Kristin Brooks Hope Center - Suicide Prevention

Since the suicide of his wife Kristin in April 1998, KBHC Founder Reese Butler has been on a personal crusade. His mission the past four years has been to offer HOPE and the option to LIVE to those in the deepest emotional pain. The means to that end: the sharing of Kristin’s story, Livewithdepression.org, in an effort to offer HOPE and the message that depression is treatable and suicide is preventable: the launching of the Kristin Brooks Hope Center and its primary program, the National Hopeline Network 1-800-SUICIDE. Former U.S. Surgeon General Dr. David Satcher dedicated this national crisis hotline network in May 1999. It connects people who are depressed or suicidal -- or those who are concerned about someone they love — automatically to a CONTACT USA or AAS certified crisis center. Support from across the country helps KBHC achieve its mission to prevent suicide and educate people about depressive disorders. Support efforts. The Kristin Brooks Hope Center has created a unique, one-of-a-kind website that gives you a raw, personal glimpse into depression, and how it affects those around you. In addition, you will find the only clear, step-by-step path for you to follow out of the darkness. There is hope and you can feel happy again!

SUICIDE PREVENTION CENTER (310) 391-1253 OR (877) 7CRISIS

"Suicide is a public health problem that is preventable". The Suicide Prevention Center (SPC) is an integral part of Didi Hirsch Community Mental Health Center, a Los Angeles area-based non-profit community organization serving the mental health needs of over 25,000 individuals, couples, and families per year. Founded in 1958, SPC was the first agency in the United States to establish a 24-hour suicide prevention crisis line, and is widely recognized as the model for most crisis centers and hotlines across the country. The Suicide Prevention Center operates with over 100 volunteers who have been trained by professionals specializing in suicide prevention. SPC volunteers perform telephone crisis intervention, bereavement support, and community education and outreach.

Youth Suicide Problems: Gay/Bisexual Male Focus + More!

The Most Comprehensive Site on Gay/Bisexual Male Suicide Problems. Info. on the ones directly/indirectly abusing and harming GLBT children, adolescents, and young adults: mental health professionals, teachers, counselors, parents, peers, etc.. The evidence indicates that homosexually oriented males account for more than half of male youth suicide problems, but mainstream suicidologists generally continue to ignore this aspect of the problem. Information about lesbian youth suicide problems is included, as is other generally unrecognized factors possibly associated with youth suicide problems. It is hoped that your exploration of the site lead to positive outcomes for the ongoing victims of the traditional Better be Dead Than Gay social ideology. Unfortunately, many professionals have had a history of abusing, harming and/or ignoring these young individuals. They have also been ignoring the high risk status of many other adolescents targeted for abuse in schools and elsewhere because they are "presumed to be homosexual," usually on the basis of gender nonconformity

Suicide and Older Adults - Sedgwick County, Kansas Suicide

Although older adults attempt suicide less often than those in other age groups, they have a higher completion rate. Over the age of 65, there is 1 suicide for every 4 attempts. The difference appears to be a function of two things that develop with age: first, the older person is more committed to the act for its own sake than as a means of manipulating others, and second, the older person is more competent to plan and execute the act. Firearms account for 60% of all suicides in Kansas between 1995 and 1998. When that is translated into actual numbers 781 Kansans committed suicide with a gun. While firearm suicide deaths were prominent among young adults, older adults age 75 to 84 had the highest rate of firearm suicide deaths than any other age group.

Change Your Emotions And Your Life

Are you sick and tired of not being happy? Do you constantly wrestle with feeling sad, overwhelmed, or frustrated? How often do you go through your day with a dull sense of being bored, hopeless and just plain "tired"? You may not realize it, but you may actually be attracting negative energy through the vibrational effects of your feelings and emotions. When you change the vibrational energy of your emotions ... you change EVERYTHING. Learn how changing your emotions can transform your life. Enjoy renewed vitality, improved relationships and greater prosperity.

Ashamed to Get Treatment / Overcoming Emotional Obstacles / Getting Treatment for Depression / DepressionandSuicide.com

Suicidal.com SUICIDE CRISIS CENTER offers depression & suicide prevention & emergency crisis intervention for those who are hopeless, in despair, experiencing overwhelming negative thoughts, depression and suicidal thoughts with severe emotional pain, encouraging them to stay alive and seek treatment, helping them to realize that they should seek treatment and be diagnosed by a medically qualified psychiatrist, psychologist, mental health counselor or therapist for possible mental illness or a probable mood disorder such as major depression, and that without treatment their low moods, depression and suicidal thoughts could lead to a suicide attempt which may or may not be fatal since many survive attempted suicide. But that their sadness, crying, suffering, pain & sorrow, can be treated, the hurting can be stopped and their agony replaced with joy and happiness and a new appreciation for life and living.

Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention

The Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention (CASP) was incorporated in 1985 by a group of professionals who saw the need to provide information and resources to the community at large to reduce the suicide rate and minimize the harmful consequences of suicidal behaviour. CASP has outlined its main purpose and function. Vision: We, like many others, envision a world in which people enjoy an optimal quality of life, are long-living, socially responsible, and optimistic about the future. Purpose: CASP's ultimate purpose is to reduce the suicide rate and minimize the harmful consequences of suicidal behaviour. Operation: CASP works toward the achievement of its purpose by facilitating, advocating, supporting, and advising, rather than by the provision of direct services.

David Baldwin's Trauma Information Pages

These Trauma Pages focus primarily on emotional trauma and traumatic stress, including PTSD (Post-traumatic Stress Disorder) and dissociation, whether following individual traumatic experience(s) or a large-scale disaster. The purpose of this award winning site is to provide information for clinicians and researchers in the traumatic-stress field. Specifically, my interests here include both clinical and research aspects of trauma responses and their resolution. For example; What goes on biologically in the brain during traumatic experience and its resolution? Which psychotherapeutic procedures are most effective with traumatic symptoms, for which patients and why? How can we best measure clinical efficacy and treatment outcome for trauma survivor populations? Supportive resources supplement the more academic or research information of interest to clinicians, researchers, and students. I do realize that these are not mutually exclusive groups. Since 19 May 1995 (a month after the Oklahoma City bombing), this site has welcomed 1,400,655 visits (363 today).

Gay Is OK! A Gay Teen Suicide Website

Most people would say that 'gay' is the opposite of 'straight'. For gay kids who are insecure in their sexuality or who face hate mongers. Gay Is OK talks about depression, thoughts of suicide, gay teen suicide. Such black-and-white thinking does not reflect accurately the nature of sexuality. If it were so, people would have no interest in one gender or the other, yet we see many straights forming close bonds with their own gender, and gays with the opposite. Sexuality is a term which does not begin to cover the situation, and is misleading in its emphasis on sex. The main aspect of orientation is love and affection, it only follows that one prefers sex with a loved one. Suicide Is not the answer, it is defeat, an admission that 'they' were right. It only encourages the hate mongers to commit more 'murders by suicide' in the knowledge that they cannot be held legally accountable. If your situation is intolerable, then get out of that situation. Most gays have been driven to thoughts of suicide at some time in their lives by hostile peers, unsupportive families, damning churches, oppressive laws. A third of all teen suicides are gay kids who could find no way out. Learn more and stay alive here!

Kansas Suicide Prevention Steering Committee

Our task is to ensure that our state actively continues to endeavor to prevent suicides. We are here to Promote public awareness that suicide is a public health problem and, as such, many suicides are preventable. Use information technology appropriately to make facts about suicide and its risk factors and prevention approaches available to the public and to health care providers.

LifeForce Suicide Prevention Program

LifeForce is a suicide prevention program aiming to educate, empower and resource Australian communities to be aware of the issue of suicide, to recognise the signals of suicide, to effectively intervene and minimise the danger of suicide, and to be sufficiently resourced to refer the person with thoughts of suicide on to appropriate, qualified help. Just like suicide knows no bounds, LifeForce knows no bounds on where it facilitates its programs. Although LifeForce is based in Sydney, it has a commitment to training in all areas of Australia, especially the rural areas. This commitment has seen LifeForce take it's program to rural areas in NSW, VIC, QLD, TAS and WA and has also received expressions of interest from New Zealand. LifeForce is NOT a crisis hotline.

National Youth Suicide Prevention Communications Project - Australian Institute of Family Studies

The National Youth Suicide Prevention Strategy (NYSPS) was an initiative of the Commonwealth Government implemented by the Mental Health Branch of the Department of Health and Aged Care. A total of $31 million was allocated over 1995-99 for the Strategy. Underpinning the NYSPS was the premise that suicide is a complex problem that must be addressed using a range of approaches. Over 70 projects were funded under the NYSPS using a range of approaches. The Communications Project undertaken by the Australian Institute of Family Studies was part of the NYSPS. The Institute also conducted a summative Evaluation of the National Youth Suicide Prevention Strategy.

Our Friend Joe - In Memory of Joseph Howard Batton

When someone you love becomes a memory. The memory becomes a treasure. You never realize how much someone means to you and how much you count on them being there. Until they are gone. Suicide survivors feel guilt like nothing you can imagine. You feel like you failed to be a friend. You gave them too many burdens and added to their pain. You didn't see it coming. The list goes on and on. I guess this page is not only to honor Joe, but to try and heal our pain & guilt.

PAPYRUS - Prevention of Young Suicides - a national charity in the UK

UK resources and support for those dealing with suicide, depression or distress – particularly teenagers and young adults. PAPYRUS is a voluntary UK organisation committed to the prevention of young suicide and the promotion of mental health and emotional wellbeing. PAPYRUS is a UK charity committed to suicide prevention, focusing predominantly on the emotional well-being of children, teenagers and young adults. We offer the general public and health-care professionals alike, the requisite resources and support to help prevent suicide and improve mental health in young people.

Sarnia Lambton Suicide Prevention

Suicide Prevention and Awareness, resources, and information. Dealing with and preventing suicide in Canada. You can always talk to us. We're here to listen. Every day. About everyday problems or major crises. Caring, compassionate, and totally confidential. WE'RE IN YOUR CORNER .In Sarnia/Lambton call: 336-3000 Or 1-888-DISTRES

Screening for Mental Health: SOS High School Suicide Prevention Program

The SOS (Signs of Suicide) Program is a nationally recognized, cost-effective program of suicide prevention and mental health screening for secondary school students. The SOS Suicide Prevention Program provides school health professionals with all the educational materials necessary to replicate this easy-to-use program in a variety of school settings. Schools have the flexibility to make use of the materials in as large or small a program as their needs and resources dictate. The program can also be blended into an existing health curriculum. It is easily implemented by existing school personnel, and can be completed during one or two school periods. The program includes educational materials, a training video and an implementation manual. SOS is the only school-based suicide prevention program that has been shown to reduce suicidality in a randomized, controlled study (March 2004, American Journal of Public Health) SOS is the first suicide prevention program to be selected by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) for its Registry of Effective Programs.

SuicidalTeens.com - Teen Depression - Teen Suicide

The Life and Death Feelings and Decisions of Depressed and Suicidal Teens - for Teens & Parents of Teens - In the past years, I have received e-mails from many depressed and suicidal teens. They seem to feel they are living in total isolation from their parents. They feel that their parents will not believe them or take them seriously, will not help them, cannot help them, and will be angry and inconvenienced, with their depression and other personal problems. Unfortunately, I know these things to be true in far too many cases. I'd like to offer some suggestions to bridge the gap.

Suicide and Survivor Help, in Memory of Jeremy, 1961-2000

Resources on suicide, grief, prevention and survival for those who have lost a loved one by suicide. A message for those considering suicide. Produced by a father whose son died by suicide. As a family who has lost a loved one to suicide (our son Jeremy, in February, 2000), we know the incredible pain of the loss, the bewildering mixture of emotions and the incessant questions with no answers. We know that we will never get over the loss of Jeremy but for his sake, our own and that of our friends, and with God's help, we have worked at coming to terms with it. While the "grief spasms" still come, and probably always will, they are now thankfully less frequent, of shorter duration and usually of less intensity. We have found how helpful it is to be a part of a support group of others who have lost a loved one to suicide and we urge you to seek out similar support. We have also found it helpful to tell Jeremy's story over and over again to loving friends who will listen, a painful process but necessary, we believe. My wife and I have been co-facilitators of the group since September, 2001. Our faith and the loving support of our faith community have also been essential and life-giving to us. I have recently been ordained a deacon in the Anglican Church with an outreach ministry to survivors of suicide and in suicide awareness and prevention.

Suicide Awareness Voices of Education

SAVE was started in 1989 when six suicide survivors (people who have experienced the loss of a loved one to suicide) met and agreed on the need for an organization. The organization is comprised mostly of suicide survivors, and people that have suffered from depression. The major event for the organization is SAVE’s Suicide Awareness and Memorial Day held every spring in Minneapolis, Minnesota, which draws nearly 500 people annually. The #1 cause of suicide is untreated depression. SAVE is committed to the education of the general public about the depressive brain diseases (such as clinical depression and bipolar illness) that can result in suicide if left untreated medically and psychologically. By educating the general public about such brain diseases, SAVE strives to remove the stigma associated with these diseases. SAVE’s prevention and education programs are designed to: Increase knowledge about depression and suicide prevention. Increase knowledge about symptoms of depression and the warning signs of suicidal thinking and behavior. Increase the confidence and competence of participants to make interventions and referrals. Increase understanding and the use of intervention skills that can help avert the tragedy of suicide. Increase knowledge about community resources, how to access and use them.

Suicide Prevention - Lifeline Australia, Living WORKS!

LivingWorks Australia is a suicide prevention scheme, auspiced by Lifeline Australia. 50 Australians die due to suicide every week—young people and adults of all ages (The Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2001, Information Paper—Suicide Australia). Let’s together support people to choose life when painful experiences prevent them from seeing a way forward. LivingWorks Australia delivers programs that promote suicide awareness, increase practical skills in suicide first aid and focus on follow-up help with people at risk. For more information about LivingWorks Australia and its programs and upcoming workshops, please visit LivingWorks Australia website, www.livingworks.org.au or contact LivingWorks national office

Suicide Prevention - SUNY Potsdam - Counseling Center

UCLA suicide prevention experts have summarized the information to be conveyed to a person in crisis as follows: "The suicidal crisis is temporary. Unbearable pain can be survived. Help is available. You are not alone." The Counseling Center offers group and individual counseling to help with these issues. For more information, call the Counseling Center at 267-2330

Suicide Prevention and Crisis Intervention Agencies

The San Pedro Youth Coalition - Now approaching epidemic proportions, suicide is currently the third leading cause of death among teenagers in the United States. It is estimated that 300 to 400 teen suicides occur per year in Los Angeles County; this is equivalent to one teenager lost every day. Evidence indicates that for every suicide, they are 50 to 100 attempts at suicide. Due to the stigma associated with suicide, available statistics may well underestimate the problem. Nevertheless, these figures do underscore the urgent need to seek a solution to the suicide epidemic among our young people. 24 HOUR SUICIDE PREVENTION HOT LINE (877) 7-CRISIS (Toll Free in Los Angeles County)

Suicide Prevention Services Red Deer

The Suicide Prevention Society of Red Deer is currently the only organization in Central Alberta whose specific area of concern and programming is geared towards primary prevention issues of building self-esteem, and coping with loss for elementary age children as well as, in-depth suicide prevention education, awareness, and intervention training for youth, general public, caregivers, and professionals. Suicide Prevention Services seeks involvement with community projects that focus on improving access and services to suicidal people. The Prevention of Suicide Must be a Community effort!

Suicide Prevention Skills and Clinical Interviewing Workshops

The Training Institute for Suicide Assessment and Clinical Interviewing (TISA) provides the Interviewing Tip of the Month and trainings on suicide prevention and clinical interviewing for mental health professionals, school counselors, and physicians. The site also provides a complete journal article on the Chronological Assessment of Suicide Events (CASE Approach), links to key suicide prevention and mental health sites, and recommended readings.