"Frameworks": A Community-Based Approach to Preventing Suicide

After doing all of this research on youth, mental health, and suicide intervention/prevention, it was important to me to find a community-based program that integrated and implemented all of this knowledge. During my research, I came across a program called Frameworks. I have provided a short point-form summary of the article, but if you’re interested in learning more about Frameworks, I’ve included the PDF below.

About Frameworks:            

• Frameworks attempts to “raise awareness of policies and procedures that encourage help-seeking, including the reduction of stigma and greater understanding about the usefulness of mental health services” (Baber 685).
• This is a “community-based program guided by an ecological perspective, developed and implemented by the New Hampshire chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness” (685) in the USA.
• This project “seeks to build community competence for identifying youth at risk for suicide and connecting these youth to appropriate resources and services. The project is designed to increase community effectiveness in responding to suicidal events, including suicidal ideation, attempts and threats, and completed suicides, by developing shared knowledge, language, and understanding among all constituencies in a community” (685).

OUTLINE OF PRESENTATION

1. Development Questions
2. Demographics of Youth Suicide: Gender, Age,Geography, Socioeconomic Status
3. Risk Factors for Suicidal Behavior
4. Warning Signs and Common Myths
5. Exposure to Peer Suicide – Grief
6. Suicide Risk Assessment: Change, Hope,Connection
7. Establishing aConnection: Empathy versus Sympathy
8. Suicide and SocialNetworking Sites
9. Frameworks: ACommunity Based Approach to Preventing Youth SuicideYOU ARE HERE!
10. Suicide Intervention and Prevention in Alberta
11. Works Cited