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Summary: The Youth Suicide Prevention Plan
The Youth Suicide Prevention Plan emphasizes three key prevention approaches: (1) community education, (2) integration of systems serving high risk youth, and (3) access to a full range of health care that includes mental health and alcohol and drug treatment services.
The 15 Strategies:
- Develop and implement public education campaigns to increase knowledge about symptoms of depression and suicide, response skills, and resources; increase help-seeking behavior; and decrease stigma associated with treatment for behavioral health problems.
- Promote efforts to reduce access to lethal means of self-harm
- Educate youth and young adults about suicide prevention
- Reduce harassment in schools and communities
- Provide media education to reduce suicide contagion
- Provide education for professionals in health care, education, and human services
- Provide Gatekeeper Training (Suicide Intervention Training) to create a network of people trained to recognize and respond to youth in crisis
- Implement screening and referral services
- Increase effectiveness of crisis hot lines
- Enhance crisis services
- Establish and maintain crisis response teams
- Improve access to affordable behavioral health care
- Provide skill-building support groups to increase protective factors and involve families
- Support suicide survivors by fostering the development of bereavement support groups
- Improve follow-up services for suicide attempters
Our challenge and responsibility are to create communities where our youth won't choose to end their lives as a solution to a temporary problem, and communities where adults believe that suicide is preventable and that not even one child should die by suicide. Contact
Oregon Health Services
Youth Suicide Prevention Program
email: Donna.Noonan@state.or.us
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