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WHO is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system. It is responsible for providing leadership on global health matters, shaping the health research agenda, setting norms and standards, articulating evidence-based policy options, providing technical support...
Yellow Ribbon is a community-based program that empowers and educates professionals, adults and youth. This is a program of people helping people. The Yellow Ribbon Suicide Prevention Program as a valuable and timely contribution to the fight against youth suicide.
The Yellow Ribbon program was...
NIMH Vision:
NIMH envisions a world in which mental illnesses are prevented and cured.
NIMH Mission:
The mission of NIMH is to transform the understanding and treatment of mental illnesses through basic and clinical research, paving the way for prevention, recovery and cure.
For the Institute to...
In 1992, a promising 16-year old student and athlete named Trevor Simpson died by suicide. Immediately after his death Trevor's parents, Scot and Leah Simpson, began advocating for resources and programs that could help prevent other young people from dying . Their efforts resulted in funding from...
Samaritans provides completely confidential emotional support 24 hours a day by telephone, personal visit, email, and letter, through its branch network – support that includes outreach activity at festivals and outside our centres in prisons, hospitals, schools, the workplace and with homeless...
The Centre for Suicide Prevention (CSP) is an education centre specializing in curriculum development; training programs; library and information services. The purpose of the Centre is to inform and equip people with additional knowledge and skills in the prevention of suicide.
The Centre began in...
San Francisco Suicide Prevention (SFSP) is the oldest volunteer crisis line in the United States. It was founded in 1963 with the initial focus of providing telephone intervention to people experiencing suicidal crisis. Over the years, the focus of the agency has gradually shifted from strictly...
Raj Clinics provides quality psychiatric services for children, adolescents, adults, and the elderly. The psychiatrists and the therapists are specialized in various areas.
Mission:
Their mission, as a community resource, is to bring modern psychiatric and addiction medicine to those individuals,...
Between 7 and 12 Million American youth suffer from mental, behavioral, or developmental disorders at any given time. The AACAP (American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry) is the leading national professional medical association dedicated to treating and improving the quality of life for...
For years, a need for cooperation and better communication has been expressed by many persons working full-time or part-time (or professionally or voluntarily) with the problem of suicidal behaviour. The topic has been discussed among a small group of people involved in the field of suicidology,...
In 1987, a number of leading experts on suicide came together with business and community leaders and survivors of suicide to form AFSP, a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. They believed that only a combined effort would make it possible to fund the research necessary for progress in the...
The American Association of Suicidology (AAS) was founded by clinical psychologist Edwin S. Shneidman, Ph.D. in 1968. After co-directing the Los Angeles Suicide Prevention Center (L.A.S.P.C.) since 1958, Dr. Shneidman was appointed co-director of The Center for Suicide Prevention at the National...