2. Cheryl Holton, Program Director
Ohio Suicide Prevention Foundation
1900 Kenny Road
Columbus, Ohio 43210
(614) Fax: (614)

3. Ohio’s Suicide Prevention Plan: AIM
Awareness – Appropriately broaden the public’s awareness of suicide and its risk factors
Goal: Increase people’s ability and willingness to seek help
Goal: Increase people’s ability to recognize the need for help
Goal: Establish capacity within Ohio to maintain suicide prevention and response initiatives

4. Ohio’s Suicide Prevention Plan: AIM
Intervention: enhance services and programs, both population-based and clinical care
Goal: reduce factors that increase the risk of suicide by working for mental wellness
Goal: establish standard, best-practice intervention strategies
Goal: establish services and service delivery systems which cover the entire continuum of health

5. Ohio’s Suicide Prevention Plan: AIM
Methodology: Advance The Science Of Suicide Prevention
Goal: Increase scientific knowledge regarding causes, effective interventions, and evidence-based programs that will work for Ohioans

6. Goals For Suicide Prevention
Increase community awareness that suicide is a preventable public health problem
Increase awareness that depression is a primary cause of suicide
Change public perception about the stigma of mental illness, especially about depression and suicide
Increase the ability of the public to recognize and intervene when someone they know is suicidal
Save lives and increase help seeking behavior
In creating this training, goals were established in order to provide structure for the program.
Goals for the training include:
Participants can more readily identify people-at-risk
They will be able to provide an appropriate initial response to people-at-risk
They will know how to get them help
And will consistently assist them in getting the appropriate help that they need

7. Prevention Strategies
General suicide and depression awareness education
Screening programs
Community gatekeeper trainings
Crisis Centers and hotlines
Peer support programs
Restriction of access to lethal means
Intervention after a suicide
In researching suicide prevention, several strategies were recommended.
General Suicide Education: These programs provide people with facts about suicide, alert them to warning signs, and provide information about how to seek help for themselves or for others.
Screening Programs: Screening programs assist in identifying high-risk persons in order to provide more targeted treatment.
Community gatekeeper training: Like school gatekeeper training, this training provides information and resources to community members.
Crisis Centers and hotlines: These programs provide telephone support and counseling for suicidal people.
Peer Support Programs: These programs are designed to assist and support people and others at high-risk of suicide or suicidal behavior.
Restriction of access to lethal means: Activities designed to restrict access to handguns, drugs, and other common means of suicide.
Intervention after a suicide: Crisis response helps the community effectively cope with feelings of loss that come with the suicide of a friend or relative and prevent future suicides.

8. Ohio Suicide Prevention Foundation
Vision: To provide suicide prevention organizations information and resources, raise awareness, eliminate stigma, and increase help-seeking behavior for all Ohioans.

9. Ohio Suicide Prevention Foundation
Mission: To promote suicide prevention as a public health issue and advance evidence-based awareness, intervention and methodology strategies which will support all Ohio-based suicide prevention efforts.

10. Ohio Suicide Prevention Foundation
Products and Services provided:
Funding for coalition development
Technical assistance for coalition development
Ohio’s Youth Suicide Prevention and Risk Assessment Project – Garrett Lee Smith SAMHSA Grant
Ohio Youth and Adult Speakers Bureau
Ohio Suicide Prevention Website
Statewide conferences and trainings
Presentations to local, regional and statewide audiences

12. Ohio Suicide Prevention Foundation
Planned products and services:
OSPF quarterly newsletter
Clearing house for suicide prevention information in Ohio
Statewide needs assessment, data collection and gap analysis
Development and implementation of evaluation tools for suicide prevention programs