CDC Suicide Prevention Technical Package for Application During Catastrophic Events Update
In 2017, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) subject matter experts developed the Preventing Suicide: A Technical Package of Policy, Program, and Practices. Since then, more research has emerged, and new needs have surfaced with COVID-19. Through a cooperative agreement with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Prevention Institute has partnered with RTI International and the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) to update the technical package content and develop modules that provide a foundation for activities (especially virtual tools) during periods of infrastructure disruption. We will focus on 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.
Reviewers
Mental Health America of Greater Houston:
Sharifa J. Charles
Jamie Freeny
Center for Law and Social Policy:
Nia West-Bey
Isha Weerasinghe
Safe States Alliance:
Shelli Stephens-Stidham
Community Health Improvement Partners, San Diego County Suicide Prevention Council:
Dana Richardson
Marin County Behavioral Health and Recovery Services:
Jei Africa
National Compadres Network:
Jerry Tello
University of Nebraska Public Policy Center, Nebraska State Suicide Prevention Coalition:
Quinn R. Lewandowski
Utah Department of Human Services:
Allison Foust
Utah Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health:
Carol Ruddell
National Alliance on Mental Illness New Hampshire:
Elaine De Mello
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration:
Richard McKeon
National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention, Education Development Center:
Colleen Carr
Education Development Center, Suicide Prevention Resource Center, Zero Suicide Institute:
Elly Stout
Adam Chu
Louisiana Public Health Institute:
Shelina Davis
Well Being Trust:
Benjamin Miller
Alpert Medical School of Brown University:
Anthony Spirito
Center for Health Policy & Health Services Research, Behavioral Health Services, Henry Ford Health System:
Brian Ahmedani
Suicide Prevention Laboratory, The Catholic University of America:
David Jobes
Dartmouth College:
Elaine Frank
Center for Depression Research and Clinical Care, UT Southwestern Medical Center:
Jennifer Hughes
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention:
Jill Harkavy-Friedman
UCLA Youth Stress & Mood Program and SAMHSA Center for Trauma-Informed Adolescent Suicide, Self-Harm & Substance Abuse Treatment & Prevention:
Joan Asarnow
Division of Behavioral Health Policy, Office of Behavioral Health, Disability, and Aging Policy, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services:
Joel Dubenitz
Appalachian State University and Journal of Rural Mental Health:
Kurt Michael
National Institute of Mental Health, NIH:
Lisa Horowitz
Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, University of Berkeley:
Anna Godøy