FEDERAL ACTIVITIES

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The Department of Health and Human Services is the United States government's principal agency for protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services, especially for those who are least able to help themselves.

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  
  

  The mission of the CDC is to promote the health and quality of life of the citizenry of the U.S. by preventing and controlling disease, injury, and disability.

  • National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
    
    

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC), is working to raise awareness of suicide as a serious public health problem, and NCIPC is applying science-based prevention strategies to reduce injuries and deaths due to suicide.

    • CDC suicide fact sheet with CDC publications list
    • CDC's Guide to Youth Suicide Prevention
    • Recommendations for a Community Plan for the Prevention and Containment of Suicide Clusters
    • Suicide statistics from CDC's National Center for Health Statistics
    • Healthy People 2010 presents a comprehensive, nationwide health promotion and disease prevention agenda. It is designed to serve as a roadmap for improving the health of all people in the United States during the first decade of the 21st century.
      
    • Healthy People 2000: National Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Objectives, released in 1990, identified health improvement goals and objectives to be reached by the year 2000. The Healthy People 2010 initiative continues in this tradition as an instrument to improve health for the first decade of the 21st century.

• Health Resources and Services Administration
  
  

  The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) directs national health programs that improve the Nation's health by assuring equitable access to comprehensive, quality health care for all.

  • Children's Safety Network Youth Suicide Fact Sheet
  • Mental Health Issues Facing the Title V Community: Youth Suicide
  • Guest Editorial: Federal, State, and Community Partnerships to Prevent Youth Suicides
  • National Health Service Corps Educational Program for Clinical and Community Issues in Primary Care

• National Institutes of Health
  
  

  The mission of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is to diminish the burden of mental illness.

  • Suicide Facts and Statistics
  • NIMH Frequently Asked Questions About Suicide
  • In Harm's Way: Suicide in America
  • Selected Reviews of Suicide Research - 2001
  • Abstracts of Currently Funded Research Grants Pertaining to Suicidal Behavior
  • Depression in Children and Adolescents: A Fact Sheet for Physicians
  • Let's Talk About Depression (for youth)

• Office of Public Health and Science
  
  
• Best Practice Initiative
  The Suicide Prevention Program of the Air Force is described and highlighted as one of the nation's most effective health prevention programs.
  
  
• Institute of Medicine
  This link connects with an Institute of Medicine publication entitled "Suicide Prevention and Intervention."



• Institute of Medicine Report - Reducing Suicide: A National Imperative (2002)

• Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration
  
  

  SAMHSA's mission is to improve the quality and availability of prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation services in order to reduce illness, death, disability, and cost to society resulting from substance abuse and mental illnesses.

  • SAMHSA Search page
  • National Registry of Effective Prevention Programs www.modelprograms.samhsa.gov
    Information on effective programs that enhance outcomes for substance abuse, violence and high-risk behaviors in community, family, school, clinical, faith-based, and workplace settings.
  • Center for Mental Health Services
    CMHS leads Federal efforts to treat mental illnesses by promoting mental health and by preventing the development or worsening of mental illness when possible.
    
    
    • Teen Mental Health Problems: What Are The Warning Signs
    • Enhancing Resilience
      Includes summary of evidence-based interventions to promote resiliency in young people, prepared by the Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS), SAMHSA
    • Examples of Exemplary/Promising Programs
      Chart with numerous programs to promote resiliency and/or prevent youth violence which meet criteria for a designation of "evidence-based". The criteria by which the various organizations deemed them to be evidence-based, exemplary, model or promising are listed under the name of the organization.
    • Resilience: Status of the Research and Research-Based Programs - Center for Mental Health Services
      Summarizes research on resilience and protective factors.
    • Grant Activities
      
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  • Center for Substance Abuse Prevention
    CSAP's mission is to decrease substance use and abuse by bringing effective prevention to every community.
  
  
  
  • CSAP's Decision Support System
    This site assists communities and states in planning, implementing and evaluating substance abuse prevention programs. Individuals interested in developing a suicide prevention program may find this site helpful since many of the steps and processes descended are generic to any type of prevention program.
    
    
  • Making the Link: Alcohol and Other Drugs & Suicide
    A publication showing that preventing substance abuse also can prevent suicide, from the National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information. (ordering information)
  Department of Defense
  
  
  • Air Force
  
  Department of Justice
  
  Department of Education
  
  
  • Suicide and the Exceptional Child. ERIC Digest #E508
  • Teenage Suicide: Identification, Intervention and Prevention. Highlights: An ERIC/CAPS Fact Sheet
  • Suicide and Sudden Loss: Crisis Management in the Schools. Highlights: An ERIC/CAPS Digest
  • Post-Traumatic Loss Debriefing: Providing Immediate Support for Survivors of Suicide or Sudden Loss. Highlights: An ERIC/CAPS Digest
  
  Indian Health Service
  The Federal Health Program for American Indians and Alaska Natives has a mission to raise the physical, mental, social, and spiritual health of American Indians and Alaska natives to the highest level.
  
  
  • Indian Health Service Injury Prevention Program
    
  • Ten Leading Causes of Death: American Indian and Alaskan Native