Suicide prevention is something everyone can take part in. Use these ideas and resources to learn, center lived experience, promote healing, share safe messages, connect people with support, and strengthen prevention in your community.
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Learn about suicide prevention
- Access information about suicide.
- Explore SPRC's Learning Center.
- Sign up for the Weekly Spark newsletter.
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Center lived experience in your prevention efforts
- Read about lived experience.
- Watch The Foundations of Lived Experience video to learn from pioneering leaders.
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Promote healing by sharing
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Create safe and effective messages using
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Engage the media by promoting
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Join our field's collective messaging effort
- Use #BeThere and #SPM26 on social media to spread the word about how to support those who are struggling.
- Get updates from the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention (Action Alliance).
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Advance prevention efforts in communities, states, and Tribes
- Find tools for getting started in community suicide prevention.
- Incorporate prevention everywhere people live, work, and play.
- Follow recommendations for establishing a strong state suicide prevention infrastructure.
- Learn how to support healthy grieving in Native communities.
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Reach out for help if you or someone you know is struggling
- Call or text 988 or chat online for free, caring, confidential support from the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline.
- Text HOME to 741741 for free, confidential, nonjudgmental support from Crisis Text Line.
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Spread the word about the 988 Lifeline
- Use the 988 Partner Toolkit to tailor messages for your audiences.
- Get involved in 988 Day and use the toolkit and #988Day to spread the word.
- #BeThe1To learn 5 steps for helping someone who may be suicidal.
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Support military service members, veterans, and their loved ones
- Reach out and share resources with them.
- Encourage those in crisis to call 988 and press 1, text 838255, or chat online with the Veterans Crisis Line.
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Promote Suicide Prevention Awareness Month
Use the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's (SAMHSA) Digital Toolkit.
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On September 10, get involved in
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Take 5 steps that could help save lives
Use resources from the National Council for Suicide Prevention (NCSP).
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Participate in an Out of the Darkness Community Walk
Find an Out of the Darkness Community Walk hosted by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP).
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Access all of these resources on your mobile device
Open the Suicide Prevention Month Ideas for Action resource page
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Culture of Caring: A Suicide Prevention Guide for Schools (K-12) was
created as a resource for educators who want to know how to get started and
what steps to take to create a suicide prevention plan that will work for their
schools and districts. It is written from my perspective as a school principal
and survivor of suicide loss, not an expert in psychology or counseling. I hope
that any teacher, school counselor, psychologist, principal, or district
administrator can pick up this book, flip to a chapter, and easily find helpful
answers to the questions they are likely to have about what schools can do to
prevent suicide.
