International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP) - Resources: Groups at Risk - Teens and Young Adults
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| About - Teen Advice: Suicide Help Lines - http://teenadvice.about.com/od/suicidehelplines/ For teens contemplating suicide, this resource offers a collection of hotlines to call |
| Boys Town - Ask It: Suicide - http://www.boystown.org/hotline/yourlifeyourvoice/AskIt/Pages/Suicide.aspx Offers a chat room and 24 hour crisis, resource and referral line. Find free materials. |
| Computerized Screening Assesses Risk of Suicide in Youth - http://www.teenscreen.org/computerized-screening-assesses-risk-of-suicide-in-youth Lawrence Epp discusses how "adolescents would disclose to TeenScreen suicidal thoughts and behaviors that they would not discuss with the adults closest to them, including, at times, their guidance counselor or therapist." |
| End Teen Suicide - Life Matters - http://www.endteensuicide.org/ Learn about this Colorado program devoted to ending teen suicide. See resources offered. |
| Focus Adolescent Services - Teen Suicide - http://www.focusas.com/Suicide.html Find hotlines to call or learn about signs of developing depression. Read a letter to any suicidal young person. |
| GirlsHeath.gov - Emotions: Suicide - http://www.girlshealth.gov/emotions/suicide/index.cfm Learn why do some teens think about suicide or how to help a friend. |
| Jed Foundation - http://www.jedfoundation.org/ Learn about this organization that works to reduce emotional distress and prevent suicide among college students. |
| NAMI - Teenage Suicide - http://www.nami.org/Content/ContentGroups/Helpline1/Teenage_Suicide.htm Browse to become familiar with this guide and resources offered by the National Alliance on Mental Illness. |
| NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital - Teen Suicide - http://nyp.org/health/mentalhealth_teensuic.html Browse to become familiar with this guide offered by the University Hospital of Columbia and Cornell. |
| Preventing Suicide Among College Students - http://nyp.org/news/hospital/suicide-college-students.html Columbia/NewYork-Presbyterian psychiatry experts offer tips on recognizing warning signs and how to identify a potentially suicidal student. |
| Research Focuses on Teen Suicide Trauma on Families - http://www.medindia.net/news/Research-Focuses-on-Teen-Suicide-Trauma-on-Families-35791-1.htm Reports "researchers at the Umea University have shown that such teenage suicide is a devastating trauma for the surviving family and the lack of sustainable explanations for the suicide is a predominant issue in the grief process." |
| SPRC - Customized Information: College Students - http://www.sprc.org/featured_resources/customized/college_student.asp Suicide Prevention Resource Center provides this guide that includes tips on taking care of oneself. Learn how to recognize warning signs. |
| TeensHealth - Suicide - http://www.kidshealth.org/teen/your_mind/mental_health/suicide.html Offers an guide that looks at why teens try to kill themselves. Learn how to cope with problems |
| Yellow Ribbon - Teens - http://www.yellowribbon.org/Msg-to-Teens.htm Offers helplines, lifeskills, coping, and warning signs tips. Download the teen suicide brochure. |
| Youth and Suicide - http://www.cmha.ca/bins/content_page.asp?cid=3-101-104&lang=1 Read this guide prepared by the Canadian Mental Health Association. |
