At a glance
- CDC funds recipients to address suicide risk among groups with high or increasing rates of suicide.
- CDC uses data, science, and partnerships to identify and implement effective suicide prevention strategies.
Overview
CDC is supporting states, tribes, territories, non-governmental organizations, and universities to address our four strategic priority areas in suicide prevention:
- Data: Use new and existing data to better understand, monitor, and prevent suicide and suicidal behavior
- Science: Identify risk and protective factors and effective policies, programs, and practices for suicide prevention in populations at increased risk for suicide
- Action: Build the foundation for CDC's National Suicide Prevention Program
- Collaboration: Develop and implement wide-reaching partnership and communication strategies to raise awareness and advance suicide prevention activities
Current programs
Comprehensive Suicide Prevention Program
23 programs are implementing and evaluating a comprehensive public health to suicide prevention.
Tribal Suicide Prevention
Four tribal organizations are tailoring, implementing, and evaluating suicide prevention strategies with the best available evidence.
Veteran Suicide Prevention
Veteran-serving organizations use CDC's Evaluation Framework to reduce and prevent suicide.
Completed programs
Emergency Department Surveillance of Nonfatal Suicide-Related Outcomes
Ten states increased their timeliness and reporting of near real-time emergency department data on nonfatal suicide-related outcomes. Collecting this data helped states rapidly track and respond to changing patterns in suicidal behavior. Read more about CDC's National Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP).