Suicide Safe Wins FedHealthIT Innovation Award
SAMHSA's Suicide Safe mobile app has won the FedHealthIT Innovation Award in the Mobile Category! This award recognizes an agency's efforts to solve some of the most pressing issues through innovative ideas and solutions.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently reported that suicide rates went up in almost every demographic category between 1999 and 2014. Overall, the age-adjusted suicide rate in the United States was 24 percent higher in 2014 than in 1999.
Medical professionals can play a critical role in connecting individuals to care if they are at risk of suicide. About 45 percent of people who die by suicide have visited a primary care provider in the month before their death, and 20 percent have had contact with mental health services.
Suicide Safe puts SAMHSA's suicide prevention resources at health care providers' fingertips through a free mobile app for mobile devices and optimized for tablets. The app helps medical professionals identify suicide risk factors in their patients and connect them with mental health care.
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Free for Apple® and Android™ devices.
Mobile Resources To Support Behavioral Health
SAMHSA has free, mobile resources that can help address some of the toughest mental health and substance use challenges, including suicide prevention, bullying prevention, behavioral health following a disaster, and underage drinking prevention.
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