National Strategy for Suicide Prevention

The National Strategy for Suicide Prevention: Goals and Objectives for Action (NSSP) was developed and launched through the combined work of advocates, clinicians, researchers, and survivors around the Nation. It is the first attempt in the United States to prevent suicide through such a coordinated approach. The NSSP lays out a suicide prevention framework for action and guides development of an array of services and programs. It requires involving a variety of organizations and individuals and emphasizes coordinating resources and delivering culturally appropriate services at all levels of a public-private partnership. This promising blueprint for change is poised to guide the Nation toward a brighter future for suicide prevention.

National Strategy for Suicide Prevention: Goals and Objectives for Action. 2001.

National Strategy for Suicide Prevention: Compendium of Federal Activities. 2009.

Federal Partners Implementing the National Strategy for Suicide Prevention

Administration on Aging

Administration on Children and Families

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Department of Defense

Department of Education

Department of Homeland Security

Department of Justice

Department of Veterans Affairs

Health Resources and Services Administration

Indian Health Service

National Institute of Mental Health

Social Security Administration

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

Other Landmark Suicide Prevention Documents

Achieving the Promise: Transforming Mental Health Care in America. President’s New Freedom Commission on Mental Health. 2003.

Reducing Suicide: A National Imperative. Institute of Medicine. 2002.

The Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Prevent Suicide. 1999.

Suicide Prevention Resource Center

The Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC) is a SAMHSA-funded technical assistance center. Its mission is to promote implementation of the National Strategy for Suicide Prevention and enhance the Nation’s mental health infrastructure by providing States, Tribes, government agencies, private organizations, colleges and universities, and suicide survivor and mental health consumer groups with access to the science and experience that can support their efforts to develop programs, implement interventions, and promote policies to prevent suicide.