Increasing numbers of people in different walks of life and professional roles are being confronted with the need to help others who are contemplating or attempting suicide as awareness and understanding of depression and suicide is growing. Friends, family members, teachers, and mental health and health care professionals are among the many people who are concerned about how they can prevent the suicide of someone they know.
Your relationship to a person who may be suicidal affects how you can most effectively help that person. To respond to this need, the Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC) recently launched a series of prevention web pages geared for specific audiences. For each audience there is a separate page that contains information specific to their needs in recognizing and responding to warning signs, and includes the most relevant resources on suicide prevention, such as programs, websites, and further reading.
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