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Mission & Goals
SPRC promotes the implementation of the National Strategy for Suicide Prevention and enhances the nation’s mental health infrastructure by providing states, government agencies, private organizations, colleges and universities, and suicide survivor and mental health consumer groups with access to the science and experience that can support their efforts to develop programs, implement interventions, and promote policies to prevent suicide.
Core Values
The Suicide Prevention Resource Center believes that these core values best support suicide prevention practice:
- A public health approach to prevention
- Prevention through collaborative, non-competitive partnerships
- Evidence-based practices
- Sensitivity to cultural context
- Seamless prevention services.
We believe these documents define and support these values:
- President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health. (2003) Achieving the Promise: Transforming Mental Health Care in America (PDF, 113 pages)
- Institute of Medicine. (2002) Reducing Suicide: A National Imperative
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (2001) The National Strategy for Suicide Prevention (PDF, 206 pages)
Strategic Goals
- Goal 1. Enhance the size and capacity of the suicide prevention workforce
- Goal 2. Create a national network of communities of practice by connecting regional, state, and local networks, organizations, and practitioners engaged in suicide prevention
- Goal 3. Create and disseminate resources
- Goal 4. Support mechanisms for implementing the public health approach to suicide prevention
- Goal 5. Broaden participation in suicide prevention activities and integrate suicide prevention into existing activities and programs
The SPRC is supported by a grant (1 U79 SM57392-03) from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). No official endorsement by SAMHSA or DHHS for the information on this web site is intended or should be inferred.
The Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC) is a project within EDC's (HHD)
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