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Based on a decade of mounting concern about an increasing youth suicide problem, the White Mountain Apache Tribe passed a tribal law mandating that any suicidal incident occurring on tribal landsincluding suicidal ideation, suicide attempts, suicide completions, and non-suicidal self-injurybe recorded into a tribal suicide surveillance system. We have worked with the tribe to develop
Focus Area: Mental Health PromotionSuicide Prevention
Importance of Emergency Departments in Reaching Youth At-Risk for Suicide Approximately 1/3 of all adolescents visit emergency departments each year. Annual visits for suicide attempts and nonsuicidal self-injury more than doubled from 1993-1996 and 2005-2008, especially for 15-19 year olds. In a related study, a high proportion of adolescents with non-psychiatric complaints who screened positive
Focus Area: Mental Health PromotionSuicide PreventionYouth Development
We launched a three-tiered suicide prevention intervention in 2006 across the White Mountain Apache Tribe under a program called Empowering Our Spirits. These tiers include: a universal tier targeting the general community in an effort to raise education and awareness on the problem of suicide; a selective tier targeting youth specifically at risk for suicide
Focus Area: Mental Health PromotionSuicide PreventionYouth Development
Associated Location(s): White Mountain ApacheWhiteriver
Social Factors Influence Youth Suicide Youth with suicidal behavior frequently report friendship problems, social isolation, conflict with boyfriend/girlfriend, peer stressors and victimization from peers as reasons for attempting suicide. Surveillance data from the White Mountain Apache tribe reveals that 61% of youth suicides occurred in youth less than 25 years old, with some of the
Focus Area: Mental Health PromotionSuicide PreventionYouth Development
Associated Location(s): White Mountain ApacheWhiteriver
The mission of the Southwest Hub for American Indian Youth Suicide Prevention Research (Southwest Hub) is to establish a collaborative network of tribal leaders, investigators, interventionists, service providers, and service users in the Southwest region, facilitated by Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health, to pool intellectual resources, cultural assets, and experience to overcome the
Focus Area: Mental Health PromotionSuicide Prevention
