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Resources
See below for suicide prevention resources for Rural Communities, Veterans, LGBTQIA2S+ Youth, Schools, Individuals, Healthcare, and Communities.
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B-HERO Resource Hub
Training Tools to Support Schools features research- and evidence-based professional learning opportunities that can help North Dakota schools meet their behavioral health professional development requirements each biennium.
Western Education Regional Cooperative
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PREPaRE Training
PREPaRE is a crisis prevention and intervention model that prepares educators and school-based mental health professionals to feel confident in their abilities when they fill specific roles and responsibilities during a crisis event.
Parents Lead
Whether your child is three months or about to graduate college - Parents Lead provides support, resources, tools, and tips to parents and caregivers, in all shapes and forms. When children have a safe and supportive space to grow and develop, where behavioral health is nurtured, we all win.
Teens and Suicide: What Parents Should Know
As a parent, you can approach suicide prevention in the same way you do other safety or health issues for your children. By educating yourself, you can learn what puts kids at greatest risk for suicide – and what protects them most strongly.
Mental Health Promotion and Suicide Prevention for LGBTQIA2S+ Youth: A Focus Guide for School Professionals
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Is Your School LGBTQ-Affirming?
A checklist by The Trevor Project that outlines school policies and practices that are LGBTQ-affiriming, along with supporting research.
Veterans Crisis Line
The Veterans Crisis Line connects Veterans in crisis and their families and friends with qualified, caring Department of Veterans Affairs responders through a confidential toll-free hotline, online chat, or text. Veterans and their loved ones can call 988 and Press 1, chat online, or send a text message to 838255 to receive confidential support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Support for deaf and hard of hearing individuals is available.
Safety Plan
An app that helps Veterans create a personalized step-by-step action plan to keep themselves safe during a crisis. It is highly customizable and provides access to coping tools, self-assessment measures, and crisis support resources like the Veterans Crisis Line.
Suicide Prevention: A Guide for Military and Veteran Families
This guide is designed to help family members recognize when a loved one is at risk for suicide and understand the actions one can take to help.
PsychArmor
A nonprofit that provides a free online library of trainings and educational resources to support Americans who work with, live with, or care for military service members, veterans, and their families.
Ask the Question Campaign
This initiative encourages agencies and organizations (including healthcare, social services, education, and others) to ask the question, “Have you or a family member ever served in the military?,” and provide information and assistance to providers regarding what to do when the answer is “Yes.”
North Dakota Govenor's Challenge Data Dashboard
The Governor’s Challenge is a partnership among the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services’ Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and the State of North Dakota to bring together community leaders and state agencies to prevent suicide among Service Member, Veterans, and their families (SMVF). Priority focus areas include identifying SMVFs and screening for suicide risk, promoting connectedness and care transitions, and promoting lethal means safety and safety planning. North Dakota developed initiatives using evidence-based methods within the priority areas. This dashboard tracks forward progress on a number of those initiatives and is updated as data is available.
Veterans Resources Handout
Handout of essential resources for working with veterans on suicide prevention.
Rural Suicide Prevention Toolkit
This toolkit compiles evidence-based and promising models and resources to support organizations developing, implementing, and sustaining suicide prevention programs in rural communities.
Rural Response to Farmer Mental Health and Suicide Prevention
This guide is designed to provide information about federal, state, and nonprofit resources and promising programs in rural communities that are addressing mental health needs in these populations. It also includes sections about key organizations working on mental health and agriculture issues and who may be positioned to offer support to farmers and their families.
Mental Health Promotion and Suicide Prevention for LGBTQIA2S+ Youth
This series of guides by the Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC) can help professionals, families, and communities support the mental well-being of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexual, and Two-Spirit (LGBTQIA2S+) youth. The series includes a resource guide and four companion focus guides designed for specific populations. The guides center the input of LGBTQIA2S+ individuals and those who have experienced suicidal thoughts and behaviors.
The Trevor Project: Education and Resources for Adults
The Trevor Project’s “Trainings for Professionals” includes in-person trainings designed for adults who work with youth. These trainings help counselors, educators, administrators, school nurses, and social workers discuss LGBTQIA2S+ youth suicide prevention.
The Trevor Project: Call, text, or chat with a trained counselor
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Text from anywhere, anytime by texting “START” to 678-678
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Reach out to speak directly to a trained counselor on the phone by calling 1-866-488-7386
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Start a chat right from your computer by clicking here
Report on Conversion Therapy Prevalence
The Trevor Project (Trevor) recently released It’s Still Happening: A Report on Practitioners of So-Called Conversion “Therapy” in the U.S. Based on research that began in 2018, the report found evidence that conversion therapy practitioners are widespread across the country.
GLSEN: Educator Resources
GLSEN’s educator guides and lessons are provided to support curriculum development and affirming practices.
Genders & Sexualities Alliance Network
GSA clubs are student-run organizations that unite LGBTQ+ and allied youth to build community and organize around issues impacting them in their schools and communities.
Q Chat Space
Q Chat Space is a digital LGBTQ+ center where teens join live-chat, professionally facilitated, online support groups. Also available in Spanish.
Is Your School LGBTQ-Affirming?
A checklist by The Trevor Project that outlines school policies and practices that are LGBTQ-affiriming, along with supporting research.
2022 National Survey on LGBTQ Youth Mental Health
North Dakota
North Dakota-specific findings of The Trevor Project's national survey, which captured the experiences of nearly 34,000 LGBTQ people ages 13-24 across the United States in 2022.
Zero Suicide Toolkit
This online toolkit provides information, resources, and a detailed guide to Zero Suicide implementation. Each section of the Toolkit describes how to implement the seven Zero Suicide domains with fidelity. This site also includes tools and videos to illustrate the transformations each element can bring to your organization's safe suicide care practices.
Suicide Prevention in Primary Care – A Toolkit for Primary Care Clinicians and Leaders
This resource guide provides information for providers speaking to clients about suicide risk, including some helpful provider communication tips, a list of recommended trainings and resources to learn more, leadership actions organizations may wish to undertake to help providers reduce suicide in their organization’s patient population, and, relevant tools, templates and case studies.
Warning Signs of Suicide Fact Sheet for Clinicians
This Fact Sheet for Clinicians is a brief reference tool to help clinicians recognize signs that may indicate a client is at immediate or acute risk of suicide.
Stanley Brown Safety Planning Intervention
The Stanley Brown Safety Planning Intervention is a brief, evidence-based intervention to help those experiencing self-harm and suicidal thoughts to create a personalized list of coping strategies, sources of support, and crisis information to mitigate risk and increase safety.
Now Matters Now
A website that includes stories of hopes from individuals who have had suicidal thoughts. This website includes research based strategies for managing these suicidal thoughts and actions, including the DBT skills of Mindfulness, Mindfulness of Current Emotion, Opposite Action and Paced-breathing.
CDC’s Suicide Prevention Resource for Action (Prevention Resource)
CDC’s Suicide Prevention Resource for Action (Prevention Resource) details the strategies with the best available evidence to reduce suicide. The Prevention Resource can help states and communities prioritize suicide prevention activities most likely to have an impact.
Transforming Communities
A report by the Transforming Communities Priority Group of the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention about the key elements for the implementation of comprehensive community-based suicide prevention.
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