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Module 3 > Next steps and resources Congratulations! You have completed Module 3: Bringing equity to suicide prevention. Now what? We hope that you will take what you learned and use it to build the case for equitable suicide prevention with your colleagues and both existing and future partners. As an initial first step, download a PDF of the module activities to use in meetings or other settings. Also, be sure to check out our other suicide prevention modules, including Module 4 which offers specific guidance around strategy development. Resources
Module 3 > Data-informed, community-driven interventions What are some promising interventions to consider to equitably support high-risk populations in your community? The CDC’s Preventing Suicide: A Technical Package of Policy, Programs, and Practices offers strategies and approaches that are supported by best available research. This means that many promising interventions with supporting contextual or experiential evidence are not included. Frequently, data-informed, community-driven interventions tailored to some of the communities at highest risk for suicide fall into this category. To
Module 3 > Populations at elevated risk Some populations experience elevated risk of suicide because of historical and current-day policies, laws, practices, and procedures that shape the determinants of health. One of the seven strategies included in the CDC’s Preventing Suicide: A Technical Package of Policy, Programs, and Practices is to identify and support people at risk. Who are the populations at elevated risk for suicide? The CDC regularly tracks and reports national-level data on suicide and leading causes of death for different groups in the U.S. These data indicate that people in
This blog is an excerpt from the new book, Community Resilience: Equitable Practices for an Uncertain Future , which is the fifth volume of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Culture of Health book series (co-published by Oxford University Press). You can order a free hard copy of the book here .
In this video interview, Sarah Brummett, Office of Suicide Prevention Director, shares how Colorado’s state infrastructure for suicide prevention has allowed for focused attention on addressing the issue, even during the COVID-19 pandemic. Key learnings Sarah shares include: - The CDC’s suicide prevention technical package can be used to cross-check local identified and prioritized strategies and make the case to partners that there is research backing specific prevention strategies. - State government has an important role to play in braiding and blending funds to invest in local communities
In February, a group of young changemakers partnered with CLASP, the Center for Law and Social Policy, to launch #WhyWeCantWait: A New Deal for Youth. A New Deal for Youth calls on leaders in the public and private sectors to support youth-led policy solutions to address the glaring economic and social injustices facing young people today, particularly young people of color. In this podcast, Prevention Institute's Ruben Cantu talks with Dr. Nia West-Bey, a senior policy analyst on CLASP’s youth team, and three New Deal for Youth changemakers—Isabel Coronado of Next100 in New Mexico; Kadesha