Topic > Adolescent Suicide Prevention - 1333

Community impact, which includes the national, state, and community levels, is crucial to adolescent suicide prevention. Community involvement allows for a more effective prevention plan, along with measures on how to properly manage the situation more efficiently. The Office of the Surgeon General of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the National Action Alliance for Suicide revised the National Strategy for Suicide Prevention (NSSP) in 2012. In which they classified interventions of suicide prevention into two categories: targeted prevention at the individual level and targeted prevention at the population level. (HHS, 2012). To focus on the individual level, the NSPP highlighted the role every American can play in protecting their loved ones from suicide. To address population-level prevention, the NSPP provides a framework for schools, businesses, health systems, clinicians and many other sectors, learning from research and teaching to identify patterns of suicide and suicidal behavior in a group or population. . There is also the Suicide Prevention Best Practice Registry (BPR), which is a registry of best practices in a specific area. The BPR is maintained by the collaboration of the Suicide Prevention Center (SPRC) and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. The registry is funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, which identifies, reviews, and disseminates information on best practices that address specific goals for the NSSP (“Suicide Prevention,” 2009). According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the Surgeon General and the National Action Alliance for… half of the document… March 5, 2014, from http://www. suicideprevention lifeline.org/Learn/WarningSigns7. Voices of suicide awareness education. (n.d.). Mission, objectives and history. Retrieved March 5, 2014, from http://www.save.org/index.cfm?Fuseaction= homeviewPage&page_id=706750EC-EC81-55E2-12A60E31C 03151738. Suicide Prevention Resource Center. (2012). The role of high school teachers in suicide prevention. Retrieved March 5, 2014, from http://www.sprc.org/sites/sprc.org/files/Teachers.pdf9. Office of the Surgeon General and the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). (2012). National strategy for suicide prevention: goals and objectives for action. Washington, DC: HHS, September 2012. Retrieved March 5, 2014, from http://www.surgeongeneral. gov/library/reports/national-strategy-suicideprevention/full_report-rev.pdf