At a glance
- CDC’s Comprehensive Suicide Prevention Program funds programs to implement and evaluate suicide prevention approaches, prioritizing populations with high or rising suicide rates.
- Read more about funded sites below.
Overview
CDC funds 23 programs to implement and evaluate a comprehensive public health approach to suicide prevention, with attention to populations that have high or increasing rates of suicide. The program's goal is to reduce suicide and suicide attempts among these populations by 5% over five years. Funded recipients are:
- Using data-driven approaches to identify groups with high suicide rates to inform prevention,
- Understanding contributors to suicide and suicidal behaviors
- Tracking trends in suicide deaths
- Identifying gaps in existing suicide prevention programs, and
- Implementing and evaluating complementary strategies.
To support this program, CDC is dedicating over $20 million per year.
Accomplishments
To learn more about what all 23 recipients are doing to prevent suicide in their communities, visit the program's Success Stories page:
Contacts
Focus populations: Males ages 35 to 54 in rural counties
Focus populations: 13 counties in California with high rates of suicide and emergency department visits for self-harm
Website: CDPH Suicide Prevention Program
Focus populations: Six counties in Colorado with high counts and/or rates of suicide. Additional priority populations include veterans and military-involved families, people with disabilities, people working in high-risk industries (construction, agriculture and ranching, oil and gas, and emergency responders), and faith communities.
Website: Colorado-National Collaborative
Focus populations: Youth and young adults, middle-aged adults, and older adults
Website: Connecticut Suicide and Self-Inflicted Injury Prevention Program
Focus populations: Youth and military personnel
Website: Florida Department of Health
Focus populations: Veterans and first responders, and Black youth in Clayton County
Website: Georgia Department of Public Health
Focus populations: Males over 50 in urban counties and females ages 10 to 19
Website: Suicide Prevention
Focus populations: Youth ages 10 to 19 years, veterans, and service members.
Focus populations: Rural residents, adults over 45 and youth ages 11 to 24
Website: Maine Suicide Prevention Program
Focus populations: Males ages 25 and older
Website: Michigan Suicide Prevention
Focus populations: Youth ages 10 to 24
Focus populations: Rural residents and veterans
Website: Oregon Health Authority
Focus populations: Men over 50
Focus populations: Males ages 25 to 64
Website: Suicide | Department of Health
Focus populations: Males ages 25 to 64
Website: Nebraska Comprehensive Suicide Prevention Website | University of Nebraska Public Policy Center
Focus populations: Working aged men, adolescent girls
Focus populations: Males, rural counties, veterans, and youth
Website: NCDHHS Suicide Prevention
Focus populations: Rural residents, Veterans, and youth
Website: University of North Dakota
Focus populations: Veterans in Northwest Pennsylvania living in 15 counties
Website: The Resilient Veteran
Focus populations: Rural residents
Website: Tennessee Suicide Prevention
Focus populations: Residents ages 15 to 44, males over 50 in urban counties, females ages 10 to 19
Website: Suicide Prevention in San Antonio | University Health
Focus populations: Vermont residents ages 15 to 64, people with a disability, males, and rural residents
Website: FacingSuicideVT.com
Focus populations: Adolescent females ages 10 to 19, Rural males ages 25 and older
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