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NAMI Ask the Expert: Suicide Prevention
In NAMI’s Ask the Expert: Suicide Prevention Webinar Series, NAMI welcomes our colleagues at AFSP and The JED Foundation, as well as contributors to NAMI’s first-ever book “You Are Not Alone: The NAMI Guide to Navigating Mental Health,” to share their work and experience in a variety of suicide prevention efforts.
Suicide Prevention: The AFSP & The JED Foundation
Join NAMI Ask the Expert as we welcome colleagues from the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and The JED Foundation to provide updates on their work in suicide prevention, including information on the AFSP’s Project 2025 from Director of Strategic Planning, Corbin Standley and a presentation from the Chief Medical Officer of the JED […]
NAMI Urges Surgeon General To Make Suicide Prevention Top Priority
Statement by Laurie M. Flynn, Executive Director, National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) NAMI applauds Surgeon General David Satcher for recognizing the epidemic proportions suicide has reached and for announcing plans to develop the National Suicide Prevention Strategy our nation so desperately needs.
Suicide Prevention: Creative Approaches to Prevention
Join NAMI Ask the Expert as we welcome three individuals interviewed for the NAMI book who share their experiences in creative suicide prevention work, including prevention programs and initiatives in the dramatic arts, baking and food service, and the creation of an advocacy superhero.
What to Know If a Loved One is At Risk for Suicide
Each year, more than half a million people arrive at emergency rooms because they are contemplating suicide or because they have already hurt themselves. Despite the care they received, in the year that follows the visit, they are still at a high risk for suicide. Of course, that outcome is a nightmare scenario for […]
Suicide Prevention: Making Meaning of Loss
Join NAMI Ask the Expert as Dr. Ken Duckworth welcomes four individuals who shared their stories of surviving suicide loss in the Chapter: Making Meaning of Loss by Suicide from the upcoming book, “You Are Not Alone: The NAMI Guide to Navigating Mental Health.”
NAMI Partners with HBO for Suicide Education & Prevention: “Suicide” Documentary Premieres March 18th
Arlington, VA – In 1970, the theme song to the movie M*A*S*H* was titled " Suicide Is Painless." But the song lied. Every year, more than 30,000 Americans take their own lives. Suicide is the eighth-leading cause of death in the United States, and the third among youth, ages 15 to 24. Most suffer […]
Suicide Portrayals and “Suicide Contagion” are not a Frivolous, Comic Concern
[…] Apparently, the panels are intended to be a momentary dream sequence, but the imagery crossed a line with many comic book fans. Ironically, it also coincided with National Suicide Awareness Prevention Month. NAMI and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) and the American Psychiatric Association (APA) quickly joined to condemn the talent search’s theme […]
General Motors Blasted For TV Suicide Commercial, Marginalization of Depression
Anger in the mental health and suicide prevention community has grown following a General Motors spokesperson’s statement this week that the company has received "more than a handful, but not a tsunami" of complaints over a Super Bowl ad that depicted a suicidal leap from a bridge -- and that the company intends to […]