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Suicide Links and Resources
- Utah Statewide CrisisLine - If you live in Utah, the University Neuropsychiatric Institute (UNI)
CrisisLine provides 24 hour, 7 days-a-week phone crisis service and is staffed by mental health professionals providing emotional support, assistance, crisis intervention, and suicide prevention to individuals experiencing emotional distress or psychiatric crisis. Crisis services include:
- Crisis intervention
- Emotional support
- Problem solving
- Referral to available resources
- Risk Assessment
- National Suicide Prevention LifeLine 1-800-273-TALK
- 2012 National Strategy for Suicide Prevention: Goals and Objectives for Action (U.S. Surgeon General and National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention)
- Voices of Hope - KUED takes a unique and powerful look at a social challenge that is seldom discussed – young people taking their own lives in Utah. Told largely through the searing personal stories of young filmmakers whose lives have been touched by suicide, the documentary is a collaboration between KUED, Spy Hop Productions and the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (Utah Chapter).
- Suicide Prevention Fact Sheet, NCIPC
- American Association of Suicidology
- CDC Suicide Briefs - has links to suicide prevention tools, suicide prevention research and knowledgeable action briefs, and more
- Youth Suicide Prevention Resource Guide 2012 from the Children's Safety Network
- KSL TV special "Breaking the Silence on Suicide"
- HOPE 4 Utah - Utah County HOPE Task Force (HOPE stands for HO - hold on, P - persuade and E- empower)
- NAMI Utah (National Alliance on Mental Illness)
- American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
- Suicide Prevention Resource Center - promoting a public heatlh approach to suicide prevention
Media Guidelines for Reporting on Suicides
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