2012 Vermont Youth Suicide Prevention Platform

2012

Maria Mercedes Avila
[email protected]
802-656-8376

This Platform is meant to be a guide for individuals, agencies, and organizations interested in preventing youth suicide. It offers priorities around which to structure activities and a framework for determining future directions. The Platform establishes the background for addressing suicide as a public health problem in Vermont, and provides statistical evidence of the need for prevention. In 2008, Vermont received a three-year grant from the Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to promote suicide prevention among youth. During that time, teachers were trained, a curriculum for student education was promoted, a statewide coalition was established, intensive intervention was made in two high-risk communities, the Umatter Youth Suicide Prevention campaign was launched, and evaluation of the project was completed. This Platform is an additional accomplishment of that grant. This was all done under the guidance of the Vermont Youth Suicide Prevention Coalition.

Suicide Prevention, Mental Health, Platform

Press communications

Consumers/Families, Professionals, Policymakers, Students

Electronic (disc, CD, 508 compliant web posting)

http://healthvermont.gov/family/injury/documents/vermont_youth_suicide_prevention_platform.pdf

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