Notice: This informational website is
not intended as a crisis response or hotline. Local
crisis hotline numbers can be found in the front of
your local phone book or call 911.
ADULT
SUICIDE PREVENTION
ABOUT ADULT SUICIDE
Learn About Suicide
The most promising way to prevent suicide and
suicidal behavior is through the early recognition
and treatment of depression and other psychiatric
illnesses. To put the key of knowledge in your
hands, we provide the following information to
assist your education about suicide and it's
prevention.
Truth or Myth - About Suicide
Take this quiz by answering T (truth) or M (myth)
for each question. Answers and your suicide
prevention readiness score are available at the
bottom of the page.
Risk and Protective Factors
The base for suicide prevention comes from observing
suicide risk factors, suicide protective factors,
and their interactions. Suicide risk factors that
increase the potential for a person's suicide or
suicidal behavior. Suicide protective factors are
things that reduce the potential for a person's
suicide or suicidal behavior.
Frequently Asked Questions
These frequently asked questions provide basic
information that may help you cope with the suicide
of a loved one, or may potentially help prevent a
suicide.
ADULT SUICIDE PREVENTION
What You Can Do
There are several things that we can do to help
someone who is suicidal and to prevent suicides.
Here is a list of what you can do to help those in
need.
