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Suicide prevention and awareness websites have many resources on risk factors, prevention, support, training, screening and assessment, and care options. Please visit these listed websites to review all information. For specific topics, review individual categories with direct links included. In a life-threatening situation, call 911 immediately.
- American Foundation for Suicide Prevention: Learn the latest statistics on suicide. Data on suicide are taken from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Data & Statistics Fatal Injury Report.
- CDC Suicide Prevention: Facts about suicide, risk and protective factors, prevention, and more.
- Substance Use and Suicide: A Nexus Requiring a Public Health Approach: Read SAMHSA’s In Brief that summarizes the relationship between substance use and suicide and provides state and tribal prevention professionals with information on the scope of the problem, an understanding of traditional barriers to collaboration and current programming, and ways to work together on substance misuse and suicide prevention strategies.
- Suicide Prevention Resource Center - About Suicide: Suicide Prevention Resource Center includes information on scope, risk and protective factors, warning signs, cost of suicide, topics and terms, populations, and settings.