Preventing Suicide Takes a Public Health Approach

Preventing Suicide Takes a Public Health Approach

By: Debra Houry, Director, CDC’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control and Paolo del Vecchio, MSW, Director of SAMHSA’s Center for Mental Health Services

The time to act is not just on one day, week, or month, the time to act is every day. To do this we’d like to suggest three simple strategies that we all should keep in mind as we interact with colleagues, friends, loved ones, youth, and older adults - and as we care for ourselves.
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