The National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) is working to raise awareness of suicide as a serious public health problem, and is focusing on science-based prevention strategies to reduce injuries and deaths due to suicide. Current activities include the following:
- The Surgeon General's Call To Action introduces a blueprint for addressing suicide - Awareness, Intervention, and Methodology (AIM), an approach derived from the collaborative deliberations of the 1st National Suicide Prevention Conference participants. As a framework for suicide prevention, AIM includes 15 key recommendations that were refined from consensus and evidence-based findings presented at the Reno conference.
- A case-control study that is examining possible risk factors for suicide, including alcohol use, exposure to previous suicides, and residential mobility that might lessen opportunities for developing social networks.
- Convening national conferences to exchange information about research and prevention strategies (including the Suicide Prevention Advocacy Network conference held in Reno in October 1998 and the American Indian/Alaska Native Community Suicide Prevention and Network conference held in San Diego in November 1998).
- Support for extramural research that will examine risk factors for suicide in the general population.
- Developed the Suicide Prevention Research Center at the Trauma Institute, University of Nevada School of Medicine.
- Continued support for a Native American suicide prevention center.
- Evaluation of the effectiveness of current suicide prevention programs, including two interventions, one with youth in New York and one with older persons in South Carolina.
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