Welcome to the Youth Suicide Prevention Resources and Best Practices. Suicide is the second leading cause of death for adolescents in
Wisconsin. Therefore, Mental Health America (MHA) of
Wisconsin has produced a number of products using evidence based and best practices from throughout the country. Due to the overabundance of materials in suicide prevention, we have compiled what we believe are the most relevant and useful materials for starting a suicide prevention program or supplementing an already existing one.
The State of Wisconsin Youth Suicide Prevention Start-Up Toolkit
The Start-Up Toolkit will help any coalition, county, or school begin focusing on the issue of suicide and how to best combat it in their region.
Start-Up Toolkit>>
The Well Aware Newsletter
was created to educate school administrators around mental health or suicide prevention issues. The newsletters can be used to educate others as well.
The Wisconsin Components of School-Based Suicide Prevention, Intervention, and Postvention Model
A guide for schools to use in developing or improving their prevention programs, crisis plans, and response to suicides.
The Community-Based Suicide Postvention Guidelines for Wisconsin
Available to help community organizations best respond in the event of a suicidal crisis.
Copyrighted materials from the Frameworks
Youth Suicide Prevention Project, Postvention Community Response to Suicide developed by NAMI New Hampshire (NAMI-NH) significantly contributed to the conceptual design and to some of the specific content in the MHA Wisconsin Postvention Guidelines. MHA Wisconsin is using intellectual property under a license from NAMI-NH; therefore, third parties have a right to the property in the sole form that was produced under this license and it may not be altered and/or used for other purposes without consent from NAMI-NH.
For information about Frameworks go to:
http://www.naminh.org/frameworks_about.php
Community-Based Suicide Postvention Guidelines>>
Technical Assistance
Mental Health
America of
Wisconsin offers a number of technical assistance and training opportunities for communities, schools, and coalitions for youth suicide prevention.
Technical Assistance>>
These resources were created to help others prevent a suicide, because most suicides can be preventable.
Mental Health America of Wisconsin would like to thank a number of organizations and people who have helped make this possible: The Postvention Workgroup, Katie Wootten and the Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC), John Humphries and the Department of Public Instruction (DPI), Madison Metropolitan School District, Maine Youth Suicide Prevention Guidelines, National Association of Mental Illness (NAMI) of New Hampshire, The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), University of South Florida, The National Center for Cultural Competence, American Association of Suicidology (AAS), and Helping Others Prevent and Educate about Suicide (HOPES).
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Funding for this project was made possible, in part, by grant SM57386 from SAMHSA. The views expressed in the material do not necessarily reflect the official policies of the Department of Health and Family Services; nor does mention of trade names, commercial practices or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.
