At AFSP, our mission is to save lives and bring hope to those affected by suicide.

The word “connection” is incredibly important in terms of suicide prevention research, because it’s the scientific research we do – about why people take their lives, and what we can do to save them – that connects all of our other efforts together when it comes to suicide prevention.

It’s research that informs AFSP’s education programs that are presented in schools, workplaces, and other settings across the country. It’s through research that we know how to best support those who have been affected by suicide, through our Loss and Healing resources. All the awareness and knowledge we spread through events like the Out of the Darkness Walks are grounded in scientific research. It’s research that forms the basis of our bold Project 2025 goal to reduce the national suicide rate 20% by the year 2025. Among the many important things our volunteer Field Advocates fight for is legislation that ensures funding for more research, so we can keep learning new ways to help people. It’s our suicide prevention research that connects all those things – as well as connecting people together, united for a common cause.

With this in mind, the Research and Communications teams at AFSP have collaborated to come up with a way of rebranding how we share all the exciting insight and efforts related to our suicide prevention research. We want to make research more accessible to everyone, whether they’re reluctant, enthusiastic, or somewhere in between. Our aim is to help create a knowledgeable and engaged public, and to inspire more and more people to share the information we discover, so we can all play a role in suicide prevention.

In short, we wanted to create a true Research Connection.

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