Announcements

This webpage describes suicide prevention efforts and outreach initiatives. The webpage includes links to infographics, fact sheets, statistics, social media messages, and research on suicide prevention, as well as information on NIMH’s suicide prevention clinical trials. Learn more.

This resource spotlights postsecondary peer education programs for health and safety matters surrounding alcohol and other drug use. These programs serve as examples for students across the country to use in their prevention efforts. Learn more.

This resource (PDF, 70 pages) is designed to support suicide prevention professionals with practical tools, information, and guidance for implementing upstream suicide prevention strategies in their community. Learn more. 

This webpage features evidence-based practices and guidance to help members of the K–12 community prevent and reduce youth substance use. The new page includes close to 40 resources specifically designed for K–12 settings and covering topics such as youth vaping and overdose prevention. Learn more. 

This resource provides guidance on integrating suicide prevention in substance use disorder treatment. It describes the importance, feasibility, and effectiveness of incorporating suicide risk screening and brief interventions in substance use disorder treatment and offers a list of resources to help you apply suicide prevention strategies in your practice. Designed for substance use disorder treatment professionals, this document may also be useful for other behavioral and mental health clinicians. Learn more. 

Campus Drug Prevention released English and Spanish versions of college-specific drug fact cards on cannabis use, impaired driving, and prescription drug misuse:  

• What You Should Know about Cannabis Use among College Students (PDF, 1 page) // Lo que hay que saber sobre...el consumo de cannabis entre estudiantes universitarios (PDF 1 page)  
• What You Should Know about Impaired Driving among College Students (PDF, 1 page) // Lo que hay que saber sobre...la conducción bajo los efectos de sustancias entre estudiantes universitarios (PDF, 1 page)  
• What You Should Know about Prescription Drug Misuse among College Students (PDF, 1 page) // Lo que hay que saber sobre...el consumo de medicamentos recetados entre estudiantes universitarios (PDF, 1 page)  

Learn more.  

This fact sheet describes some of the strongest factors—including cultural identification, spirituality, and family connectedness—that can protect Tribal youth from suicide. Learn more. 

This webpage shares common indicators to help recognize human trafficking among children and adults. Learn more.

This webinar explored how clinicians can use motivational interviewing as a valuable tool in suicide risk assessment. The webinar’s presenter introduced the core principles and techniques of motivational interviewing and briefly describes how it can be integrated with existing suicide risk assessment strategies. At the end of the overview, the presenter suggested next steps for pursuing skills-based training to apply motivational interviewing in clinical practice. Learn more.

This fact sheet (PDF, 2 pages) provides information about the drug carfentanil, its prevalence, and the overdose dangers associated with this highly potent opioid. Learn more (PDF, 2 pages).

This tip sheet (PDF, 1 page) offers a starting point for integrating prevention strategies into a comprehensive school safety program. Prevention encompasses the actions K–12 schools and school districts can take to stop, avoid, or deter school safety threats or incidents and create safer learning environments. Learn more (PDF, 1 page). 

This website features resources that can support people who work with Tribal communities, organizations, and individuals in promoting and accessing culturally appropriate suicide prevention and postvention information and tools. Learn more.

This fact sheet (PDF, 6 pages) outlines how institutions of higher education core planning teams can plan for potential bomb threats through the creation and modification of an emergency operations plan that addresses the threat in a Bomb Threat Annex. Learn more (PDF, 6 pages). 

This Kahoot game quizzes users on their knowledge of various education statistics, including graduation rates, annual salary of workers with a bachelor’s degree, and more. Learn more.

This network is a portal where families, and local organizations that serve families, can access resources on substance use or misuse provided by federal, state, and local agencies and national and local nonprofit organizations. Learn more.

This toolkit is designed to help social workers and other behavioral health clinicians conduct effective suicide risk assessment. It contains a comprehensive overview, a resource guide, and clinical practice scripts that can be useful for a broad range of clinical professionals, including graduate students and instructors, early career clinicians, and experienced practitioners seeking to bolster their skills in this critical area. Learn more. 

This resource (PDF, 9 pages) describes territorial reinforcement, a crime prevention through environmental design principle that uses design elements to define ownership of and the intended use of spaces on campus. Territorial reinforcement strategies aim to clearly define who belongs in the space and who does not. Learn more (PDF, 9 pages). 

This webpage presents programs and interventions that Suicide Prevention Resource Center experts have reviewed to ensure alignment with the most current guidance on preventing suicide. Each listed program or intervention has demonstrated effectiveness in preventing suicide or directly addressing factors that impact suicide prevention. Learn more.

This fact sheet (PDF, 2 pages) describes the origins, appearances, and effects of vaping and marijuana concentrates. Learn more (PDF, 2 pages). 

This toolkit is a resource center for social media, video, print, radio, FAQs, messaging, and other marketing materials that can be used to promote the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. It is designed for states, territories, tribes, crisis centers, communities, emergency service providers, and other partners to communicate clearly about the 988 Lifeline and how it works. The toolkit now includes updated photography and print materials, a bus stop banner, and social media content that explains the difference between 988 and 911. Learn more.