International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP)

Read this article that shares that Black leaders and parents still operate under the notion that black youths just don't commit suicide. Read for details.

Reports that Asian Americans are much more likely than the average American to commit suicide, according to a recent report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Read this paper that was written by F. M. Baker and was published by the Journal of National Medical Association.

Discover this paper that examines the influence of concentrated disadvantage (and related characteristics) on suicide among young black males across U.S. cities.

Shares "primary care physicians are less likely to detect mental health problems, including depression, among African American and Hispanic patients than among whites."

Reveals "study after study has shown that Asians underutilize mental health services much more than other populations, according to Stanley Sue, PhD, director of the National Research Center on Asian American Mental Health in Davis, California."

Reports "According to the Centers for Disease Control, in 1980, the suicide rate for Whites aged 10-19 was 157% greater than that of Blacks. However, by 1995 there was only a 42% difference. Although Whites are still more likely to commit suicide than blacks, the suicide rate for all African-Americans doubled between 1980 and 1996."

Learn about this organization that was was formed to stop the tragic epidemic of suicide in minority communities.

Read a transcript or listen to a broadcast of a discussion which addressed suicide risk and depression in Black men.

"According to the southern California-based Muslim Mortuary and Cemetery Committee, the rate of Muslim suicides in Orange County and Los Angeles alone between the years of 2006 to 2008 was 15.5 times higher than the rate in the previous ten years."

Details "one in five Latina adolescents attempt to commit suicide. They are more likely to take their own life than any other group in the United States."

Browse to become familiar with this program offered by the Ohio State University.