Native American/Alaska Native

Native American and Alaska Natives are at significantly higher risk of suicide than the general population but there are many organizations across Indian Country who are implementing Zero Suicide and seeing results. 

A comprehensive approach to suicide prevention requires access to high-quality data for monitoring suicide, nonfatal suicide-related outcomes, and, importantly, the risk and protective factors associated with these outcomes.

The 2024 National Strategy for Suicide Prevention is meant to address gaps in the field and to guide, motivate, and promote a more coordinated and comprehensive approach to suicide prevention in communities across the country.

American Indian Life Skills is a high school curriculum designed as skills-based approach to suicide prevention.

The Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board has created a valuable toolkit containing resources for understanding the historical context and impacts of U.S Indian boarding schools. Delving into past, present, and future traumas that have resulted from U.S.

This letter to the editor of the Journal of Primary Care & Community Health provides an overview of effective strategies and interventions to address healthcare worker burnout.

Culture Forward: A Strengths and Culture-Based Tool to Protect our Native Youth from Suicide provides actionable steps that leverage the strengths of Tribal communities to protect youth from suicide and promote well-being.

This tool from the Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC) provides a series of questions to guide the cultural adaptation of gatekeeper training programs and to improve the community ownership, cultural fit, and effectiveness of the training.

Washington state’s Native and Strong Lifeline is now live –the first program of its kind in the nation dedicated to serving American Indian and Alaska Native people.