{"id":110,"date":"2016-09-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eccovia.com\/index.php\/2016\/09\/22\/national-suicide-awareness-prevention-month-states-leading-way\/"},"modified":"2024-03-18T14:28:41","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T14:28:41","slug":"national-suicide-awareness-prevention-month-states-leading-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eccovia.com\/blog\/national-suicide-awareness-prevention-month-states-leading-way\/","title":{"rendered":"National Suicide Awareness and Prevention Month \u2013 States that are Leading the Way"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This month we are recognizing National Suicide Awareness and Prevention<\/strong><\/span> Month. Communities across the country are coming together to discuss ways to help prevent this public health crisis that takes the life of one person every 15 minutes (42,000 annually). Suicide is now the 10th<\/sup> leading cause for death for all ages and impacts individuals, families, and communities.<\/p>\n

Although no one solution solves a complex problem like suicide, communities are making progress by collaborating with primary, behavioral health, and community service organizations to coordinate care<\/strong><\/span> for at-risk individuals. Two great examples are the state of New York and the state of Minnesota.<\/p>\n

New York<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMSHA)<\/strong><\/span> discovered that up to 45% of individuals who die by suicide have visited their primary care physician within a month of their death. With this alarming statistic in mind, SAMSHA provided the National Strategy for Suicide Prevention (NSSP) grant to New York to integrate suicide prevention into primary healthcare settings. With these funds the New York State Office of Mental Health developed their coordinated suicide prevention plan entitled, \u201c1,700 Too Many.\u201d<\/p>\n

1,700 Too Many introduces a three-tiered strategy for success: community coordinated, data informed, and integrated suicide prevention into health and behavioral health<\/strong><\/span> settings. By incorporating these three concepts primary and behavioral health providers are encouraged to work together to coordinate an individual\u2019s care, provide critical community supports and use data to continuously improve New York\u2019s suicide prevention efforts.<\/p>\n

Here is an overview of the New York State Suicide Prevention Strategy:\"new-york-state-suicide-prevention-strategy-01\"<\/p>\n

Minnesota<\/strong><\/p>\n

The state of Minnesota is another innovative leader in suicide prevention with its behavioral health home services (BHH) for Medicaid<\/strong> <\/span>enrollees. Individuals who suffer from serious mental illness are at greater risk for suicide. They experience known barriers to healthcare access, high co-occurrence of chronic health conditions, and early mortality. Minnesota introduced the BHH model in July 2016 to provide whole-person care for these individuals, including primary care, mental health, substance use treatment, long-term services and supports, and social services through one multi-disciplinary team. According to the Minnesota Department of Human Services, BHH provides six core services:<\/p>\n