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After a Campus Suicide: A Postvention Guide for Student-Led Responses (Active Minds, 2017)
From Active Minds comes this guide that was created to help students respond to a death by suicide of a fellow student. The guide is available free of charge after completing a brief form at the bottom of the page.
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Survivors of Suicide: A Support Group Leader’s Handbook (STAR-Center, 2019)
Provided by the STAR-Center, this manual was written for clinicians who have an interest in beginning a group for suicide survivors. It provides a basic outline and guide to help clinicians provide services to people isolated by their loss.
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Lock to Live
A free tool designed to help you make decisions about temporarily reducing access to potentially dangerous things, like firearms, medicines, sharp objects, or other household items.
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Lethal Means Safety & Suicide Prevention
Provided by the Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center health district, this site offers extensive information on means safety. The site contains information on a patient-centered counseling technique called Lethal Means Safety Counseling (LMSC). It contains research on the topic of means safety, along with recommendations and additional resources.
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Counseling on Access to Lethal Means (CALM) Training
This training is about how to reduce access to the methods people use to die by suicide. It covers who needs lethal means counseling and how to work with people at risk for suicide, and their families, to reduce access.
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Suicide in Parking Facilities: Prevention, Response, and Recovery (International Parking Institute, 2016)
This report from the International Parking Institute outlines strategies that parking organizations can use to prevent deaths by suicide from their parking garages. The report’s first suggestion for prevention is the use of physical barriers. Other suggestions include the use of “Geofencing” via closed-circuit cameras or perimeter landscaping or awnings to reduce the likelihood of…
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Firearms on College Campuses: Research Evidence and Policy Implications (Johns Hopkins, 2016)
Provided by the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research, part of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, this report looks at the connection between the carrying of firearms by civilians and mass shootings/violent crime and the issues that are unique to the safety of the public on higher education campuses.
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Suicide Prevention on Bridges: The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline Position (2017)
Initially created in 2008 and revised in 2017 to reflect new evidence, this report makes the case for using physical barriers on bridges for suicide prevention. The report outlines the benefits of using barriers as opposed to using phones connected directly to crisis lines or signs containing crisis line information. In short, the report concludes…
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Help Yourself. Help Others.
From MindWise Innovations comes this self-assessment tool that can be used to assess the emotional health of you or a loved one. They offer various screeners for various conditions, including depression, anxiety, PTSD, bipolar, psychosis, substance use (with specific screenings for alcohol and opioid use), gambling, and eating disorders. They also offer a well-being screener…
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ULifeline Self Evaluator
This self-evaluation tool offers students the ability to utilize one of four available screeners for the purposes of screening for depression (PHQ-9), anxiety (GAD-7), eating disorders (SCOFF), and substance use disorders (CAGE-AID). Optionally, students may enter the name of their school, which will allow the screener to provide them with information on resources that are…
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.