This
Web site is designed to assist you in locating information
and resources about suicide prevention.
Specifically,
this Web site was developed for locating situation specific
suicide prevention resources in a quick and effective way.
This is also known as offering “tailored” information.
Access to tailored information is available by:
- Organizing
the Web site information in ways that offer situation specific
or tailored views of the information
- Promoting
a user-friendly and efficient way to search authoritative
suicide prevention resources
- Searching
the Web site using a key word search
- Locating
and announcing updates about relevant tailored resources
regularly
- Receiving
personalized and tailored search help when needed
The
word “intermediary” or "helping role" is used to
describe the person who is concerned about someone who might
be suicidal. Intermediaries or helpers, are people from all
walks of life ranging from the parent of a child who is at
risk for suicide, to a psychiatrist offering mental health
services.
It
is our belief that while some information about suicide prevention
is broad and general, knowing what to look for within the
context of your relationship with the person who is at risk
for suicide will help you to make better choices for what
to do to help. Because of that belief, you will notice
that resources are organized not only using their broad meaning,
but are also arranged and written around “specific intermediary”
roles. There
are naturally some overlaps in the information, but where
possible, information is situation and role specific.
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