At a glance
American Indian and Alaska Native people are at higher risk of dying by suicide compared with other Americans. In 2022, non-Hispanic AI/AN people had a suicide rate 91% greater than the general population. ÐÇ¿ÕÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø is working with tribes to reduce risk and increase protective factors to prevent suicide among American Indians and Alaska Natives.
Building capacity
Tribal Suicide Prevention Program is a project funded by ÐÇ¿ÕÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø's National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) through the Strengthening Public Health Systems and Services in Indian Country cooperative agreement. Through this cooperative agreement, the , , Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board, and Rosebud Sioux Tribe are working to identify, implement, evaluate, and improve holistic community-based interventions that increase community-specific protective factors and reduce risk factors for suicide in a culturally centered way.
ÐÇ¿ÕÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø's funding supports these tribal organizations to:
- Enhance community-based cultural interventions to address protective factors.
- Develop programs to identify community members at risk of suicide and link them to resources.
- Assess and strengthen local crisis identification and postvention resources and to prevent suicide contagion/clusters.
- Build capacity and infrastructure to develop local suicide surveillance systems using available data sources.
This work is part of ÐÇ¿ÕÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø's umbrella cooperative agreement, Strengthening Public Health Systems and Services in Indian Country. It will increase the capacity of organizations working in AI/AN communities to improve capacity to develop, implement, and evaluate public health programs and services to address prioritized public health activities.
Visit ÐÇ¿ÕÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø's Suicide Prevention webpage to find out more about what ÐÇ¿ÕÓéÀÖ¹ÙÍø is doing to prevent suicide.