Suicide Prevention
May Mental Health Month 2025 is Here!
What better way to begin May than to celebrate and honor our mental health! Whether you are interested in learning more to support your own mental health or someone you love, there is something for everyone to enjoy with over 10 different events taking place around Marin County!
Marin’s Strategic Plan for Suicide Prevention and Annual Reports
Marin County Board of Supervisors approved the County's first Suicide Prevention Strategic Plan in February 2020. This seven-strategy plan is our call to action to reduce deaths by suicide and suicide attempts in our community. At the heart of this plan is the knowledge that preventing suicide is achievable. Together, we are challenging our long held beliefs and perceptions about suicide and creating a new way to work across agencies and institutions to prevent suicide. To learn more about the work we've accomplished in our first year, please read the newly released Annual Report: 2022-23.
NEW! Data Dashboard and the Suicide and Overdose Fatality Review
Marin County HHS recently released a suicide prevention data dashboard for public access. Viewing the dashboard will allow a greater understanding of those disproportionately impacted by suicide.
Data collected by the recent launch of the Suicide & Overdose Fatality Review Committee will also help inform real-time trends and determine who in the community is at risk for suicide and overdose. Learn more here.
Know the Facts, Give Support, and Get Support
From Compassion to Action: A Community Guide to Suicide Prevention and Support in Marin County
The Guide "From Compassion to Action: A Community Guide to Suicide Prevention and Support" is a one of it's kind resource to create awareness and action (available in English and Spanish). This Guide provides foundation information, strategies to talk with someone in distress, and thoughts on how to best support attempt survivors and those bereaved by suicide. This Guide can be used for Conversation Circles as implemented during September Suicide Prevention and Recovery Month in 2022.
