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Supporting Someone Experiencing Thoughts of Suicide
This is a manual filled with practical advice from Full Circle Grief Center created to help parents, caregivers, and loved ones supporting someone experiencing thoughts of suicide with guidance, reassurance, and tools to navigate times of distress.
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DVS Virginia Veteran and Family Support Program
The Virginia Department of Veterans Services’ Virginia Veteran and Family Support program provides direct support through personalized care and community resource coordination and peer recovery support to service members, veterans and their families and caregivers as they address the challenges of military service, transition, deployments, post-traumatic stress, and traumatic brain injuries.
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Engaging State Policymakers to Support College Student Mental Health: A Resource Guide for Campus Leaders
This toolkit from the American Council on Education provides knowledge and resources to help campus leaders, staff, and students advocate for increased state support and funding for college student mental health.
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Fraternities and Mental Health: Supporting Emotional Well-Being Among Members and Across Campus
The Jed Foundation (JED) sheds light on how fraternities impact mental health on college campuses and offers recommendations to national fraternity leadership, administrators, and student leaders for enhancing mental health on college campuses, both inside and outside of fraternities. Fraternities have a substantial influence — both positive and negative — on college culture in the…
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What Every College Freshman Should Know (Video)
College can be an exhilarating experience — but it can also be overwhelming. Here’s what college juniors and seniors think incoming freshmen should know. This is a YouTube video from WebMD.
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NAMI College Guide (Video)
This YouTube video will help you learn how to address your mental health concerns while at college. NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, is the nation’s largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to building better lives for the millions of Americans affected by mental illness.
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Responding to Suicide: Postvention Guidance for Student Housing Managers
The Jed Foundation—in partnership with the College Student Mental Wellness Advocacy Coalition and Hi, How Are You Project (HHAYP)—has released an emergency preparedness guidebook for student housing managers on how to handle the sudden and tragic loss of a community resident. Titled Responding to Suicide: Postvention Guidance for Student Housing Managers, the guidebook offers protocols…
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Firearm Safety Counseling
From the Suicide and Trauma Reduction Initiative for Veterans (STRIVE) YouTube channel, Dr. Craig Bryan demonstrates the firearm safety counseling approach used in brief cognitive behavioral therapy for suicide prevention (BCBT) with an at-risk patient. This approach is influenced by the core principles of motivational interviewing, and involves four general phases: Engaging, Focusing, Evoking, and…
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Family Connections – Managing Suicidality & Trauma Recovery
Family Connections™ – Managing Suicidality & Trauma Recovery is a FREE program from the National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder that helps parents manage any stress and trauma they might experience when their child is dealing with self-harm or suicidal behaviors. This evidence-based, free course provides education, skills and support for parents and is…
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Mental Health is Health
An MTV Entertainment Studios initiative rooted in the reality that we all have mental health and need to take care of it like we do our physical health. The initiative aims to normalize conversation, create a connection to resources and inspire action on mental health.
Resources
This resource library is a compilation of publications and websites that are related to suicide prevention, intervention, postvention, and mental well-being promotion. Use the dropdown to browse by category or click the Resources link in the navigation for an easy-to-browse option.