Resources

Effective suicide prevention calls for an approach that combines several strategies.  Below you’ll find our list of resources that may be helpful for you and those you care about.

  • CDC: Essentials for Parenting Teens – Tips to support the development of positive parent-teen relationships. 
  • Cornell University: Self-Injury & Recovery Resources – Dedicated to translating the growing body of knowledge about self-injury into resources and tools useful for those seeking to better understand, treat, and prevent it. 
  • Erika’s Lighthouse – Focused on helping families promote good mental health, address mental distress, and support children’s mental illness. 
  • FAST Skills – Designed to provide brief, evidence-based behavioral therapy for youth and families with common mental health concerns.  
  • Forefront Suicide Prevention – Focused on helping people take action to prevent suicide in their communities.  
  • NAMI WA – Find resources related to crisis support, education, and navigating a mental health crisis. 
  • Native and Strong Lifeline – A suicide-prevention, crisis and help line for and by Indigenous people. 
  • The Jed Foundation – Focused on protecting emotional health and preventing suicide for our nation’s teens and young adults.  
  • Trevor Project – Provides crisis and peer support to LGBTQ+ youth. 
  • Washington State Department of Health – Find behavioral health agencies in WA state. 
  • Youth Mental Health First Aid – Adult participants will gain skills on how to help youth in crisis or who may be experiencing a mental health challenge.  
    • Seattle Children’s – Two-part virtual class for adults who regularly interact with youth age 12-18.  
    • Valley Cities – Interactive course that teaches participants how to identify, understand, and respond to signs of a mental health or substance use challenge or crisis. 
  • Act for Youth: Positive Youth Development 101 – Curriculum to provide professional development to new youth workers, supervisors and administrators, funders, and community volunteers.  
  • CASEL Program Guide – Designed to help educators and school administrators select an evidence-based SEL program that best meets the needs of their community.  
  • Classroom Wise – Three-part training package that assists K-12 educators and school staff in supporting the mental health of students in the classroom. 
  • Cornell University: Self-Injury & Recovery Resources – Dedicated to translating the growing body of knowledge about self-injury into resources and tools useful for those seeking to better understand, treat, and prevent it.
  • Crisis Connections ($) – Health curricula that is designed to be taught by classroom teachers or counselors, and appropriate for students at the elementary, middle, and high school levels. 
  • DBT in Schools ($) – Curriculums and trainings to teach emotional regulation, resilience, and relationship building. 
  • Erika’s Lighthouse – Provides depression education and suicide prevention curriculum. 
  • FAST Skills – Designed to provide brief, evidence-based behavioral therapy for youth and families with common mental health concerns.
  • Forefront Suicide Prevention – Focused on helping people take action to prevent suicide in their communities.
  • Hazelden Lifelines Trilogy ($) – Unique collection of three programs that address the important topic of youth suicide, from prevention to intervention to response. 
  • HEARD Alliance – K-12 Mental Health Promotion & Suicide Prevention Toolkit offers schools a structured approach to promoting wellbeing, responding effectively to crises, and supporting communities in the aftermath of loss. 
  • Mental Health Instruction – Comprehensive library that includes mental health resources (i.e., SEL, mental health literacy, substance use, suicide prevention, social media and mental health). 
  • NAMI WA – Find resources related to crisis support, education, and navigating a mental health crisis.
  • National Center for School Crisis and Bereavement – Dedicated to helping schools support their students through crisis and loss. 
  • Native and Strong Lifeline – A suicide-prevention, crisis and help line for and by Indigenous people.
  • Seize the Awkward – Resources for youth to start a conversation about mental health and support a friend. 
  • SHAPE: School Mental Health Policy Map – Displays and links to key state-level policies and information related to school mental health. 
  • SOS Signs of Suicide ($) – Evidence-based youth suicide prevention program. 
  • Sources of Strength ($) – Best practice, strength-based, upstream suicide prevention and mental health promotion program. 
  • Suicide Prevention Resource Center – Builds capacity and infrastructure for effective suicide prevention through consultation, training, and resources. 
  • Trevor Project – Provides crisis and peer support to LGBTQ+ youth.
  • Washington State Department of Health – List of approved suicide prevention trainings for health professionals.
  • Youth Mental Health First Aid – Adult participants will gain skills on how to help youth in crisis or who may be experiencing a mental health challenge.  
    • Seattle Children’s – Two-part virtual class for adults who regularly interact with youth age 12-18.  
    • Valley Cities – Interactive course that teaches participants how to identify, understand, and respond to signs of a mental health or substance use challenge or crisis.