Preventing Suicidal Behavior in American Indian and Alaska Native Communities: A Health Equity Issue
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The March session of Grand Rounds, “Preventing Suicidal Behavior in American Indian and Alaska Native Communities: A Health Equity Issue,” was viewed in 6 foreign countries, 42 states, and the District of Columbia.
Suicide is a leading cause of death in the U.S. and suicide rates have increased more than 30 percent since 2000. Among American Indian and Alaska Native (AI and AN) communities, suicide rates are even higher than among the general population, and they are highest among youth and young adults, ages 15–34. Focusing on subgroups at risk, including youth among AI and AN communities, and implementing evidence-based prevention strategies is a key approach to reducing suicidal behaviors and may help reduce this health inequity.
Join us for this session of Public Health Grand Rounds to learn about prevention approaches, such as screening during healthcare visits and targeting risk and protective factors at community, relationship, and individual levels. This Grand Rounds also will examine successful school-based life-skill programs and the role employment and job quality can play in health.
Among American Indian and Alaska Native communities suicide rates are higher than among the general population, and they are highest among youth and young adults, ages 15–34. Dr. Phoebe Thorpe and Dr. Spero Manson discuss initiatives that use evidence-based methods to detect and prevent suicides within these communities.
Suicide is among the leading causes of death in the United States. Dolly Moorhead, senior advisor in the Office of the US Surgeon General, discusses her professional and lived experience with suicide and its prevention with CDC's John Iskander and how the Office of the Surgeon General is drawing on suicide prevention experts across the nation to prevent suicide.
- Alex Crosby, MD, MPH, CDR, USPHS
- Division of Violence Prevention
National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, CDC
"Understanding Suicide in American Indian and Alaska Native Youths"
- Teresa LaFromboise, PhD
- Professor, Developmental and Psychological Sciences Stanford Graduate School of Education
Chair, Native American Studies
Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity
Stanford University
"Suicide Prevention in Educational Settings with American Indian Youth"
- Spero M. Manson, PhD
- Distinguished Professor of Public Health and Psychiatry
Director, Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health
Colorado Chair in American Indian Health
University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus
"Detection and Management of Suicide in Primary Care: Translating an Evidence-based Practice in Native Health Settings"
- Michael Flynn, MA
- Coordinator, Occupational Health Equity Program
Training, Research, and Evaluation Branch
Education and Information Division
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, CDC
"An Occupational Health Perspective on Suicide among American Indian and Alaska Native Youths"
- John Iskander, MD, MPH
- Scientific Director
- Phoebe Thorpe, MD, MPH
- Deputy Scientific Director
- Susan Laird, DNP, MSN, RN
- Communications Director
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- Presentation Slide Deck [PDF - 4 MB]
- The Surgeon General’s Call To Action To Implement the National Strategy For Suicide Prevention
- #BeThere to Help Prevent Suicide | CDC
- Suicide Prevention Resource Center
- Suicide Prevention Reports and Publications
- SAMHSA
- National Institute of Mental Health
- Youth Suicide Prevention School-based Guide
- High School Teachers
- School Psychologists
- After a Suicide: A Toolkit for Schools
- National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention
- Indian Health Service
- Tribal Training and Technical Assistance Center
- To Live to See the Great Day That Dawns
- National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention
- Garrett Lee Smith State/Tribal Youth Suicide Prevention and Early Intervention Grant Program
- Native Connections Initiatives
This session is available for Continuing Education (CE). Register here using the course information below.
CDC Course Code: PHGR10
CPE UAN: 0387-0000-19-003-H04-P
For more information, see Grand Rounds Continuing Education.