Suicide

Parent Coaching: Helping parents with parenting challenges by offering alternative perspectives about family situations, creating strategies to prevent youth high-risk behavior, and developing family dynamics that achieve balanced parenting goals.

Prevention Planning: Use this section to plan your prevention activities and prevention discussions regarding this topic.

• Suicide Self-Evaluation

  Take or ask your loved one to take this confidential suicide self-evaluation and dicuss how to implement a self-care plan.

• Assess Your Mental Well-Being

  Take this self-assessment to learn and assess about a dozen positive aspects of mental well-being from social support to self-esteem. 

• Take a Mental Health Test

  Find a screening tool for a variety of mental health issues to determine the type of help you or your child might need. 

• Assess Your Knowledge About Suicide

  Learn about suicide and assess your knowledge.  

ACTIVITIES

• #BeThe1To

  Learn the 5 steps for communicating with someone who may be suicidal. 

• #BeThe1To in Spanish

  Learn the 5 steps for communicating with someone who may be suicidal in Spanish.

• Participate in a Walk

  Participate in an American Foundation for Suicide Prevention Walk with your children to raise awareness about suicide.

• Reach Out: How To Help Someone At Risk Of Suicide

  Listen to the NPR Life Kit podcast about how to reach out to someone at risk of suicide.

LINKS

• Find a Treatment Provider

  Use the National Suicide Prevention Hotline's resource page to help find a psychologist, psychiatrist, or support group near you.

• Warnings Signs & How to Help

  Suicide rarely happens without warning signs. Learn them and teach your children what to do if they or they know someone who is struggling.

• Stop, Drop & Roll Technique

  Learn the Stop, Drop & Roll technique for dealing with suicidal thoughts. 

• Suicide is Different: Caregiver Information

  Suicide is Different has resources for caregivers to learn how to take care of others, set boundaries, and self-care.

ORGANIZATIONS

• Suicide Prevention Research Center

  The Suicide Prevention Resource Center at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center is supported by a grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS), under Grant No. 1H79SM083028-01

• Saftey Plan Template

  Use this template to co-create a safety plan with your child and share a copy with their counselor.

• Symptoms of Depression in Children & Teens

  Learn about the symptoms of depression for infants, children, adolescents, adults, and the elderly.

READING & RESEARCH

• Suicide Statistics: Scope of the Problem

  Learn information about the prevalence of suicide, suicide thoughts, and attempts by age, race, relationship to substances, and means.

• International Suicide Awareness

  Website full of information about suicide and suicide prevention. 

• American Association of Suicidology

  Research and resources for anyone who has an interest in suicide prevention. 

• Grieving After a Suicide

  Learn about what to say and the process of grieving after a suicide.

• Postvention

  Learn about promoting healing and reducing risk after a suicide.

Student Engagement: Engaging students in the learning process to increase understanding and motivattion to practice higher-level critical thinking skills about high-risk behavior.

Prevention Planning: Use this section to find information, activities, discussion and fact handouts, as well as access to research about this topic.

• Suicide Self-Evaluation

  Take or ask your loved one to take this confidential suicide self-evaluation and dicuss how to implement a self-care plan.

• Assess Your Mental Well-Being

  Take this self-assessment to learn and assess about a dozen positive aspects of mental well-being from social support to self-esteem. 

• Take a Mental Health Test

  Find a screening tool for a variety of mental health issues to determine the type of help you or your child might need. 

• Assess Your Knowledge About Suicide

  Learn about suicide and assess your knowledge.  

ACTIVITIES

• #BeThe1To

  Learn the 5 steps for communicating with someone who may be suicidal. 

• Send a Thank You Card

  Be the one to thank someone in your life that supported you when you needed it most. You might see your Thank You on bethe1to.com. 

• Host an Active Minds Event

  Host a Send Silence Packing® exhibit to end the silence that surrounds mental health and suicide and connect participants to resources for support and action.

   

• Lead a Take 5 Event

  Get the toolkit to host a Take 5 Event at your school to teach students the five steps to helping prevent suicide.

   

• Start a Club

  Start an Our Minds Matter club at your school.

   

LINKS

• National Suicide Hotline

  Lifeline provides 24/7, free and confidential support for people in distress, prevention and crisis resources for you or your loved ones.

• Crisis Text Line

  Crisis Text Line serves anyone, in any type of crisis, providing access to free, 24/7 support.

• How to Make a Safety Plan

  If you’re struggling with suicidal thoughts, it's important to have a plan for those times when you might feel alone or like there's no way out.

• Safety Plan Template

  Use this template to create your own safety plan. 

• Learn DBT Skills

  Subscribe to Now Matters Now DBT Skills YouTube Channel.

ORGANIZATIONS

• Suicide Prevention Research Center

  The Suicide Prevention Resource Center at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center is supported by a grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS), under Grant No. 1H79SM083028-01

• The Trevor Project Support Center

  A place where LGBTQ youth and their allies can find answers to frequently asked questions, and explore resources.

• Grieving After a Suicide

  Learn about what to say and the process of grieving after a suicide.

• Young Ambassador

  Watch a video series from Now Matters Now Young Ambassador who has been there.

• It Gets Better Project

  The It Gets Better Project is a nonprofit organization with a mission to uplift, empower, and connect LGBTQ youth around the globe. 

• Half of Us

  Use this MTV/JED resource to watch PSAs and interview video about a variety of mental health topics.

• American Association of Suicidology

  AAS Mission is to promote the understanding and prevention of suicide and support those who have been affected by it.

READING & RESEARCH

• Suicide Prevention Research Center

  Find resources and research about suicide prevention. 

• International Suicide Awareness

  Website full of information and resources regarding suicide and suicide prevention. 

• Teen Suicide Prevention

  Learn the Stop, Drop & Roll technique for dealing with suicidal thoughts.