Adverse Childhood Experiences and Suicide Prevention Rapid Response Training & Technical Assistance Tools
COVID-19 and the national outcry for racial justice has illuminated a need for coordinated, culturally-specific and proactive ACEs and suicide prevention efforts. Through a cooperative agreement with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Prevention Institute has partnered with the National League of Cities and Dr. Howard Pinderhughes, Director of the Sociology Doctoral Program at the University of California, San Francisco, to offer training and tools to local government and their partners in supporting their communities. We will compile, tailor, and rapidly disseminate suicide and ACEs prevention interventions with a focus on incorporating strategies that 1) have been adapted for a shelter-in-place/infrastructure disruption context, and 2) are responsive to populations most at risk and most impacted by the stress, anxiety, social isolation, loss and grief brought about and exacerbated by the pandemic.
This project is supported by Cooperative Agreement No. 6 NU38OT000305-02-03 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the Department of Health and Human Services or the CDC.
Module Reviewers
Center for Law and Social Policy:
Nia West-Bey
Isha Weerasinghe
Safe States Alliance:
Shelli Stephens-Stidham
National League of Cities:
Sue Polis
Anne Li
California Department of Public Health:
Renay Bradley
Sara Mann
Suicide Prevention Resource Center, Education Development Center:
Julie Ebin
Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, University of Berkeley:
Anna Godøy
RTI International:
Adam Miller
Anna Yaros
John Richardson
CDC:
Karin Mack
The D. Wood Foundation:
Fabian Wood
TOVA’s N.E.S.T.:
Tracee Black-Fall
Massachusetts Coalition for Suicide Prevention (MCSP) Alliance for Equity:
Pata Suyemoto
Jen Kelliher
Additional Contributors (webinar presenters, video, or podcast interviews)
Healthy Places by Design:
Risa Wilkerson
HEAL San Francisco, Our Children Our Families Council:
Luis M. Aroche
Baltimore City Council / Healing City Baltimore:
Zeke Cohen
Behavioral Health Services Department of Santa Clara County:
Mego Lien
Office of Suicide Prevention, Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment:
Sarah Brummett
Boston Vital Village Network:
Yusuf Ali
Soojin Conover
Suzeth Dunn
Alaska Resilience Initiative:
Laura Norton-Cruz
Philadelphia ACE Task Force Steering Committee:
Joel Fein
Crystal Wyatt
Mental Health America of Greater Houston:
Sharifa J. Charles
Jamie Freeny
Communities That Care, Public Health and Environment, City and County of Broomfield:
Nicole Dolan
Broomfield Youth For Youth:
Arya Nandyal
YEF Council Representative, National League of Cities:
Giana Rocha
NYC Department of Education:
Elizabeth Stranzl
Center for Law and Social Policy:
Nia West-Bey
Isha Weerasinghe
After School Matters:
Tony Diaz
AARP Foundation:
Emily Allen
Coalition to End Social Isolation and Loneliness:
Edward Garcia
Oregon Alliance to Prevent Suicide:
Annette Marcus
Association of Oregon Community Mental Health Programs:
Kris Bifulco
University of California, San Francisco:
Howard Pinderhughes
Peace4Tarpon:
Robin Saenger
PREP For Change Consulting:
Ken Epstein
Houston Health Department:
Deborah A. Moore