Resources Library

The 988 Lifeline provides 24/7, free and confidential support for people in distress, prevention and crisis resources for you or your loved ones, and best practices for professionals in the United States.

This toolkit reflects consensus recommendations developed in consultation with national experts, including schoolbased administrators and staff, clinicians, researchers, and crisis response professionals. It provides guidance and tools for postvention, a term used to describe activities that help people cope with the emotional distress resulting from a suicide and prevent additional trauma that could lead to further suicidal behavior and deaths, especially among people who are vulnerable.

A Guide for Taking Care of Yourself After Your Treatment in the Emergency Department This brochure was created to help individuals after a suicide attempt as they begin to work through the challenges that led them to attempt to take their life. It offers information about moving ahead after your treatment in the emergency department and provides resources for more information about suicide and mental illnesses.

The Minnesota Chapter of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention is primarily made up of volunteers working to prevent suicide in Minnesota, and to provide support to those in our community who have been impacted by suicide.

This guide is designed to help national organizations, states, localities, and community coalitions develop Black youth suicide prevention initiatives. It lays out SAMHSA’s Black Youth Suicide Prevention Initiative (BYSPI) and policy academies as a blueprint for carrying out this life-changing work. To learn more and get involved in preventing Black youth suicide, check out SAMHSA’s new issue brief for state mental health agencies and SPRC’s infographic with simple, data-driven steps you can take today.

MDH Grantee serving southern counties, western counties, metro counties and four tribal communities.

MDH Grantee serving northern Minnesota counties and 7 tribal nations.

We are excited to share that NACCHO, in partnership with CDC, has launched the Community-Based Suicide Prevention for Local Health Departments training course. This free, 4-module online course aims to help local health departments implement community-based suicide prevention and advance the 2024 National Strategy for Suicide Prevention. Module 1: Building and Sustaining Cross-Sector Suicide Prevention Partners Module 2: Support Upstream Comprehensive Suicide Prevention Module 3: Promoting Lethal Means Safety Module 4: Organizing Response & Support After Suicide Attempts and Loss. Each module includes videos, key tips and strategies, examples from other local health departments, and ideas for how to get started.

Farming can be a stressful occupation. Often, you live where you work. Your coworkers may be your spouse and/or other family members. While you get to be your own boss, you feel responsible for a lot and can control very little. Financial problems, price and marketing uncertainties, farm transfer issues, production challenges, marital difficulties, and social pressures can be real sources of stress — even crisis — for farmers and farm family members. There are people and organizations ready to help. Explore them at this website.

The new Creating Affirming, Responsive, and Equitable Schools (CARES) Mental Health System Assessment Tool & Resource Workbook help schools understand how the mental health policies, practices, and programs they have in place contribute to the emotional well-being of their students, particularly Black girls, and offer a roadmap for creating a school-based mental health system responsive to all students across social identities.

CredibleMind features over 200 engaging topics, including essential areas such as depression, anxiety, sleep, parenting, eating disorders, self-care and so much more. Our commitment to understanding the voices of our community, as highlighted in our Community Health Assessment, drives us to offer a platform that addresses the unique mental health needs of each individual. With CredibleMind, you will find a compassionate and supportive environment that fosters healing and growth.

Crisis resource sheet in Amharic

Crisis Resource Sheet in English

Crisis Resource Sheet in Hmong

Crisis Resource Sheet in Ojibwe

Crisis resource sheet in Oromigna

Crisis Resource Sheet in Somali

Crisis Resource Sheet in Spanish

DeafLEAD is a safe space for anyone in need of support. We provide 24/7 crisis intervention, advocacy, case management, interpreting, and mental health support services to victims of crime who are Deaf, hard of hearing, DeafBlind, and late-deafened individuals and their families. We also lend our expertise to victim service providers—individuals and organizations alike—in ensuring that their services for crime victims with hearing loss are culturally and linguistically appropriate.

Funeral directors play a very important role in supporting those bereaved by suicide loss. There are many grief support resources available to support survivors of unexpected loss, and a compassionate funeral director can be one of those important resources.

Life has its challenges. You don’t have to solve them alone. That’s true whether it’s an everyday struggle, or something more complicated. This site was designed for Veterans to proactively seek support and resources.

The Dougy Center provides support and training locally, nationally, and internationally to individuals and organizations seeking to assist children in grief.

Down on the Farm: Supporting Farmers in Stressful Times is a 3-hour workshop that teaches people who live and work in agricultural communities how to recognize and respond when they suspect a farmer or farm family member might need help. It can be offered in-person or online.

We are a nonprofit dedicated to educating and raising awareness about adolescent depression, encouraging good mental health, and breaking down the stigma surrounding mental health issues Our mission is to make sure no young person feels alone in their depression. We are dedicated to creating a community of empathy and education. We create upper elementary, middle school and high school mental health, depression and suicide awareness programs so educators, families and teens can create safe spaces to learn about mental health, letting students know they are never alone, and there is somewhere to turn.

A quick guide for friends and family on how to be an ally and support LGBTQ+ youth.

Healing After a Suicide Loss: All Ages Workbook + Activity Guide is for families, friends, therapists, educators, and facilitators. The questions and activities herein are intended to guide loss survivors as they navigate their bereavement. Therapists and facilitators can use this workbook/activity guide for individual clients or in group settings. The “Helpful Resources” section includes a guide for friends about what to say and what not to say; “Safe Messaging” offers guidelines for sharing about suicide on social media or in local communities; “Helpful Organizations” directs readers to hotlines and information about suicide and loss; and “Warning Signs of Suicide” lists behaviors to watch out for.

This website was created by a group of dedicated volunteers from Central Minnesota who deeply care about the well-being of our community. We are parents who have lost children to suicide. We are mental health and substance use professionals who work with children, teens, adults, and families. We are concerned neighbors who believe in the power of community to support one another through difficult times. We built this resource to help you—or someone you care about—find the right support, right here in Central Minnesota, when it’s needed most.

A brief guide to supporting children after a suicide loss.

The Kids Mental Health Foundation is dedicated to making sure ALL grown-ups who support children have access to expert-created resources to help kids’ mental health. But we also create specific resources for communities at higher risk for mental health concerns by listening to their needs and learning the best way to get them the information. This intentional commitment is ingrained in our strategic plan and a key focus in everything we do. We focus on reaching communities with less access to evidence-informed mental health information or have higher needs, such as Title 1 schools and rural areas. We develop content around issues for specific populations, including the Black community, Spanish-speaking community, immigrant community, LGBTQ+ community and military-connected families. We’re committed to partnering with corporations and organizations serving underrepresented or underserved or at-risk youth.

Reducing access to lethal means is part of a comprehensive suicide prevention approach. A suicidal crisis may be relatively short in duration—minutes to hours—and most people who attempt suicide and survive do not go on to die by suicide. By putting time and distance between a lethal means – such as firearms, medicines, and illegal drugs – and individuals who may be at risk for suicide, suicide can be prevented, and lives can be saved.