Policy and Legislation

This issue brief by the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices discusses what actions schools, governors, and state policymakers can take to strengthen statewide youth suicide prevention efforts.

This report provides an in-depth examination of New Jersey's policies and practices targeting teen suicide as well as a literature review of suicide prevention strategies nationwide that have shown the most promise for school programs, communities, and health care partners.

This bill, H.R. 2218 (111) introduced in April 2009 by Congressman Ron Paul of Texas to prohibit the use of Federal funds for any universal or mandatory mental health screening program. Similar bills, both dead, were introduced in 2005 and 2007.

This report aims to inform policymakers about the significance of recent advances in evaluating evidence for allocating resources to and within public mental health programs.

The Bazelon Center provides some of the most up-to-date information mental health policy and laws.

This report represents the first national comprehensive effort to measure differences in access and use of health care services by various populations. The report includes a broad set of performance measures that can serve as baseline views of differences in the use of services. The report presents data on the differences in the use of services, access to health care, and impressions of quality for seven clinical conditions, including cancer, diabetes, end-stage renal disease, heart disease, HIV and AIDS, mental health, and respiratory disease as well as data on maternal and child health, nursing home and home health care, and patient safety. It also examines differences in use of services by priority populations.

Published as: MMWR 37(S-6);1-12. Recommendations in this report were developed to assist community leaders in public health, mental health, education, and other fields to develop a community response plan for suicide clusters or for situations that might develop into suicide clusters. A workshop for developing these recommendations was jointly sponsored by the New Jersey State Department of Health and CDC on November 16-17, 1987, in Newark New Jersey.

This is a proclamation designating May 28th as "Suicide Prevention Awareness Day" in Tennessee.

This site allows you to: a) identify and directly contact your Senators and Representatives via e-mail, fax or mail; b) learn how your Senators and Representatives voted on certain bills; c) identify and contact local media outlets; and d) read about important legislation.