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.yourlifeyourvoice.org/AskIt/Pages/Suicide.aspx Offers a chat room and 24 hour crisis, resource and referral line. Find free materials. |
| 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. |
| Los Angeles County - Youth Suicide Prevention project - http://preventsuicide.lacoe.edu/ Visit this website that has been especially developed for the 80 school districts within Los Angeles County, to provide administrators, staff, parents, and students with the most up-to-date information about the prevention, intervention, and postvention of suicide among our youth. |
| 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. |
| NASP Resources: Save a Friend: Tips for Teens to Prevent Suicide - http://www.nasponline.org/resources/crisis_safety/savefriend_general.aspx Includes "What Can You Do to Help a Friend?" Learn the warning signs detailed by the National Association of School Psychologists. |
| 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. |
| ReachOut.com - Suicide - http://us.reachout.com/facts/suicide Offers a selection of suicide prevention fact sheets such as "How talking to someone can help" or "Common Thinking errors." |
| 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: Teens - http://www.sprc.org/featured_resources/customized/teens.asp Suicide Prevention Resource Center offers this resource that includes information for teens. See Helping your Peers. |
| 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. |
| Youth Suicide Prevention Program - http://www.yspp.org/ Read about this Washington State prevention program. See highlights. |
| YouthLife - http://www.youthlife.btik.com/ The mission statement of this Derry, Northern Ireland, organization is to improve the health status and well-being of bereaved young people. Browse to learn about aims and objectives or see "Who We Are." |




