Title of Collaborative Activity: |
National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention (NAASP) |
Description of Collaborative Activity: |
Founded in September 2010, the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention (NAASP) is a public-private partnership designed to advance the National Strategy for Suicide Prevention in the United States. The NAASP's Research Prioritization Task Force (RPTF) was charged with developing a process to prioritize suicide prevention research efforts and consider ways to integrate science and service to ensure that suicide deaths decrease significantly within the next decade. The RPTF released the Nation's first suicide research agenda, A Prioritized Research Agenda for Suicide Prevention: An Action Plan to Save Lives. The research agenda includes an overarching goal to advance suicide prevention research more rapidly, seeking ways to reduce suicide deaths and attempts by 20 percent in five years and by 40 percent or greater in ten years. In 2015, the RPTF produced the "U.S. National Suicide Prevention Research Efforts: 2008-2013 Portfolio Analyses." The analyses revealed that investments in suicide research are severely lagging, but there is a growing knowledge base of intervention research. The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Director serves as an ex-officio member of the Executive Committee of the NAASP. NIMH participates in a number of NAASP activities related to identifying research needs for improving risk identification and suicide preventive care within healthcare systems, justice, and school settings. |
Type of Collaborative Activity: |
Committee, Advisory Group, or Work Group
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Year the Collaborative Activity Originated: |
2010 |
NIH Participating Institutes/Centers/Office of the Director: |
NIAAA, NIDA, OD/DPCPSI/OBSSR |
HHS Agency Collaborators on this Activity: |
ACL, CDC, HRSA, IHS, OS, Office of the Surgeon General (OSC), SAMHSA |
