Resources on prevention and promotion, including suicide prevention

Sharing Together

Published: May 24, 2017

The Sharing Together initiative helped identify prevention and promotion, including suicide prevention as an evidence priority in Ontario.

The top two evidence needs within this theme prioritized by Sharing Together stakeholders are:

Coordinated mental health, substance use, and addictions prevention and promotion strategies, across the lifespan
School-based interventions for prevention, promotion, and early intervention (including suicide prevention)

Below are some EENet resources related to this theme:

Are there opportunities to intervene before suicide for people with schizophrenia spectrum disorders? (Research Snapshot posted July 31, 2018)
Health Promotion Resource Centre (EENet initiative webpage)
Mental health promotion, prevention, and early intervention through campus interventions and integrated service centres (evidence brief posted August 31, 2016)
Social Emotional Learning: School Years Evidence Brief (evidence brief posted August 30, 2016)
Home Visiting and Group-Based Parenting Interventions: Evidence Brief: Early Years (evidence brief posted August 31, 2016)
Be Safe app helps safe opioid prescribing (news item posted February 15, 2015)
The Toronto and Ottawa Supervised Consumption Assessment (TOSCA) project (webinar recording posted January 31, 2017)
Are there opportunities to intervene before suicide for people with schizophrenia spectrum disorders? (Research Snapshot posted July 31, 2018)
Struggling to eat: Food insecurity and use of mental health services (Research Snapshot posted August 15, 2018)

Here are some resources from our partners:

Mental Health Commission of Canada - Suicide Prevention
Mental Health Commission of Canada: Online module for healthcare professionals: Suicide: Facing the Difficult Topic Together – Empowering Physicians, Instilling Hope in Patients
Champlain Justice Service Collaborative
Together to Live - a website to support community mobilization efforts related to youth life promotion/suicide prevention (Ontario Centre of Excellence for Child and Youth Mental Health)
Have THAT talk - Developed by the Mental Health Commission of Canada, Bell Let’s Talk, and Ottawa Public Health. This initiative has three separate themes of videos: 1) For Everyone, 2) For Parents, and 3) for the Workplace; and a facilitator guide.
More Feet on the Ground Toolkit - a campaign created by Brock University with Community Partners intended to raise awareness of mental health and mental illness on campus. The campaign includes two main elements: (1) Online training on recognizing, responding to, and referring students experiencing mental health challenges and (2) a campus psychoeducational workshop series focused on increasing general understanding of mental health and types of mental illness.
Building on Our Strengths: Canadian Standards for School-based Youth Substance Abuse Prevention (Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction)
School-based standards for creating prevention programs - an online module (Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction)

Stay tuned for more information and resources!