Suicide Prevention

Suicidal Behavior in California

  • 4200 people died by suicide (2023)Source
  • 4312 people died by suicide (2022)
  • 4436 people died by suicide (2021) 
  • 4491 people died by suicide (2020)
  • 4436 people died by suicide (2019)
  • 4491 people died by suicide (2018)
    • 112,275 estimated suicide attempts
  • 4,323 people died by suicide (2017)
    • 108,075 estimate suicide attempts
    • 18,153 people visited or were admitted to the emergency department for self-harm
    • Over 1.1 million adults reported serious thoughts of suicide

Reports

National Strategy for Suicide Prevention and First-Ever Federal Action Plan, U.S. Health & Human Services, 2024

California millionaire’s tax that funds mental health programs prevented 5,500 suicides, USC study shows, 2022
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​Suicide and Serious Mental Illness
An Overview of Considerations, Assessment, and Safety Planning, SMI Advisor and Suicide Prevention Resource Center

COVID-19 - Projected "Deaths of Despair", Wellbeing Trust.org

DHCS Suicide Prevention Fact Sheet

Pain in the Nation Update: Alcohol, Drug and Suicide Death in 2018, Trust for America’s Health and The Well Being Trust

CALBHB/C Issue Brief

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CALBHB/C Suicide Prevention Issue Brief
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National Suicide Prevention Lifeline logo with contact number; 1-800-273-8255.
Website: suicidepreventionlifeline.org
Phone: 1-800-273-8255
Chat: Chat with Lifeline

Legislation

Mandatory Suicide Prevention for Grades 7-12 (AB2246)

Suicide Prevention Initiative, (CA Department of Education)

Media Reporting of Suicide

​Reporting Responsibly on Campus Suicide (RROCS) aims to educate student journalists and readers on safe, responsible media messaging around mental health in campus settings in order to prevent media-influenced suicide contagion. Stanford University

Tool for Evaluating Media Portrayals of Suicide (TEMPOS)  was developed through a collaboration with the County of Santa Clara Behavioral Health Services Department’s Suicide Prevention Program and the Stanford Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences’ Media and Mental Health Initiative

Prevention

 An Action Plan for Strengthening Mental Health and the Prevention of Suicide in the Aftermath of COVID-19 

Recommended Standard Care for People with Suicide Risk​, The National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention

Santa Clara County's Suicide Prevention (SP) Program, CIBHS DHCS MHSA Showcase, 9/20

Striving for Zero CALIFORNIA’S STRATEGIC PLAN FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION 2020 – 2025 and Suicide Prevention PowerPoint, MHSOAC 12/19

​Rural Suicide Prevention Toolkit

​CALM On-line Training - Counseling on Access to Lethal Means

Suicide Trainings, Community Connections To Patch Holes In Amador’s MH Safety Net, CapRadio 9/2018
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Peer Run WARM LINE, San Francisco Mental Health Department, 2017​

After a Suicide:  A Toolkit for Schools, American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
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 Training Tennessee Highway Patrol Officers in Suicide Prevention, American Foundation for Suicide Prevention

Suicide Prevention  SAMHSA 2018

Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy Reduces Suicidal Behavior? Megan Chesin, Ph.D., Columbia University
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​Suicide Awareness for College Students, California Community College Student Mental Health

Suicide Prevention Initiative, (CA Department of Education)

Free Youth Mental Health First Aid Training, CA Dept of Educsation

Seize the Awkward! Suicide Prevention Campaign, American Foundation for Suicide, JED and the Ad Council, 2018

News

Twice as many children have thoughts about suicide and self-harm as 10 years ago, study says​ Sacramento Bee, 5-17

Steady fall in suicides offers glimmer of hope in Japan, Merced Star, 3-22-17

Teen suicide attempts down following legalization of same-sex marriage, AMA/BulletinHealthcare:  2-21-17

Learning how suicide affects a community, USA Today-Wisconsin, 3-22-17

Reports

Suicide:  CA Facts & Figures​, American Foundation for Suicide Prevention

CA Dept of Health Care Services (DHCS) Suicide Hotline Report (2016)

Children, Teens and Suicide Loss, American Foundation for Suicide Prevention

The Truth about Suicide and Guns, Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, 2016
​CA counties map by behavioral health region, showing 58 counties plus Berkeley and Tri-Cities. (Sutter and Yuba Counties are one jurisdiction). View map.
The california association of local behavioral* health boards & commissions (cALBHB/C) supports the work of california's 59 local behavioral health boards and commissions by providing resources, training, Technical Assistance. 

Local boards are responsible** for reviewing public behavioral health needs, services, facilities and special problems, and serve in an advisory capacity to local governing bodies and local behavioral health directors. ​

​*"Behavioral" Refers to Mental Health as well as Alcohol and Drugs.
**CA Welfare & Institutions Code (WIC) 5604
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