How to Help a Suicidal Person What is Partnership for a

How to Help a Suicidal Person
What is Partnership for a
Healthy Community?
1. Do ask directly about suicide
thoughts
2. Do get involved and be available
3. Don’t dare or taunt
4. Do be non-judgmental
5. Don’t debate the right and wrong of
Who should use the toolkit?
 Primary Care Physicians
 School Counselors
 Healthcare providers
suicide
6. Don’t lecture on the value of life
7. Don’t be sworn to secrecy
8. Seek agencies or individuals who
specialize in mental health issues
Early detection of adolescent
depression through screening is
recommended.
9. Seek help from
family/friends/physicians/clergy
10. Offer hope with alternatives – not
glib reassurances
11. Do take action – remove easy
methods may use to kill self
A community-driven effort to improve health and
wellness in Peoria and Tazewell counties and is
supported by a $2.4 million Community
Transformation Grant from the Centers for
Disease Control (CDC). Quality Quest applied for
the two-year funding on behalf of the
collaborating organizations:
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24/7 Crisis Hotlines
Increasing use of screening tools by
providers will enable proper
diagnosis and treatment of
adolescents with depression.
Tazwood Center for Wellness-Pekin
(309) 347-1148
Human Service Center-Peoria
(309) 671-8804
American Red Cross – Central Illinois
Chapter
Bradley University
Central Illinois Wellness Council
Children's Hospital of Illinois
City of Peoria
FamilyCore
George Washington Carver Association
Gifts in the Moment
Greater Peoria Family YMCA
Heartland Community Health Clinics
Hult Center for Healthy Living
Methodist Medical Center of Illinois
OSF Saint Francis Medical Center
Peoria City/County Health Department
Quality Quest for Health of Illinois
Tazewell County Health Department
Tazwood Center for Wellness
University of Illinois College of Medicine
at Peoria Center for Health Outcomes
Research
There are 5 strategic areas of focus:
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Social & Emotional Wellness
Tobacco-Free Living
Active Living
Healthy Eating
Clinical Preventive Services
Why is Screening for Adolescent
Depression Important?
Our community exceeds the national average
in poor mental health days.
Increasing screens for adolescent depression
will help improve social and emotional
wellness.
A recent survey of students in
Central Illinois found:
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More than 1 in 10
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More than 2 in 10
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of 10 and 12
graders indicated they had seriously
considered a suicide attempt in the last year.
For More Information
Contact:
Julie Campen
Tazwood Center for Wellness
3248 Vandever Avenue
Pekin, IL 61554
[email protected]
(309) 347-5522
Adolescent
Depression
Screening:
of 10 and 12
graders indicated “feeling so sad or hopeless
almost every day for 2 weeks or more in a row
that you stopped doing some usual activities”
Why is it important?
Depression is not part of normal
development – with treatment
success rate is high
Funding for this project was made possible by grant #
1H75DP004385-01 from the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC). The views expressed in written conference
materials or publications and by project members do not
necessarily reflect the official policies of the Department of Health
and Human Services; nor does mention of trade names, commercial
practices, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S.
Government.