During Suicide Prevention Month, learn how people, families, and communities can come together to support people in crisis and help prevent?suicide.
Community suicide prevention can go a long way toward reducing suicide deaths and preventing the pain of losing a loved one to suicide.
But effective suicide prevention requires open conversations about suicide. It also requires shared effort from individuals, families, and communities. We all must work together to prevent suicide.
Stigma has always surrounded suicide, and many people have negative or false views about suicide and people who die by suicide.
Awareness of suicide as a preventable public health concern and stories from people with lived experience of suicide have eased some of this stigma. But many people still talk about suicide in hushed tones or use code words and softened language. That?s if they discuss suicide at all.
September is Suicide Prevention Month, but the work to prevent suicide and erase stigma continues year-round. You can begin this work by learning the signs, risk factors, and coping skills and resources for times of crisis.
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