Suicide Prevention PEI:5 Santa Clara County Suicide Prevention Strategic Plan (SCC-SPSP)
Suicide Prevention PEI:5Santa Clara County Suicide Prevention Strategic Plan (SCC-SPSP)
Suicide Prevention Initiative (SPI): Staffing
Suicide Prevention: Public Health Model
Mission:
To bring community awareness to the issue of suicide and to engage the community effort to stop it.
Suicide and Crisis Services (SACS) – 24/7 Crisis Hotline
The Santa Clara County Suicide & Crisis Hotline is a 24-hour, toll-free confidential suicide
prevention hotline available 7 days a week for phone intervention and emotional support by
highly trained volunteer Crisis Phone Counselors to help individuals who are experiencing:
different forms of crises
emotional or situational distress
a need for ongoing support
varying degrees of mental illness
a need for general information or referrals
Suicide Prevention Strategic Plan: Program Aims
During 2015-2016, SP focused primarily on conducting
community education through suicide prevention gatekeeper
trainings; increasing suicide prevention literacy among County
contracted staff as well as school professionals on suicide
intervention skills, and on reducing stigma associated with
mental illness through Mental Health First Aid classes and
speakers bureau panels.
The implementation approach has been designed with one
priority in mind: everyone plays a role in suicide prevention.
The five strategies of this broad community
effort are:
1. Implement and coordinate suicide intervention programs and services for high-risk populations.
2. Implement a community education and information campaign to increase public awareness of suicide and suicide prevention.
3. Develop local communication “best practices” to improve media coverage and public dialogue related to suicide.
4. Implement a policy and governance advocacy initiative to promote systems change in suicide awareness and prevention.
5. Establish a robust data collection and monitoring system to increase the scope and availability of suicide-related data and evaluate suicide prevention efforts.
Data Analysis: Suicide Death
Reports from Medical Examiner
Coroner’s Office
6
7
8
9
0.0
2.0
4.0
6.0
8.0
10.0
12.0
14.0
16.0
18.0
20.0Suicide Rate per 100,000 by City 2009-2013
10
Santa Clara County Department of Behavioral Health Services, Suicide Prevention
18.9%
39.6%
2.4%
5.1%
34.5%
0.0% 5.0% 10.0% 15.0% 20.0% 25.0% 30.0% 35.0% 40.0% 45.0%
Unknown
No Note
Verbal Comments
Ph/Txt/Email/Video
Suicide Note
% Of Suicidal Communication 2009-2013
11
Santa Clara County Department of Behavioral Health Services, Suicide Prevention
Suicide Prevention Oversight Committee
(SPOC)
Workgroups:
Data Workgroup
Intervention Workgroup
Communications Workgroup
Evidence-Based Health Promotion and Education
Evelyn Tirumalai, MPHSuicide Prevention Coordinator
Phone: (408) 885-3982Mobile: (408) 401-6117
www.sccmhd.org/sp
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