Suicide Prevention
What We’re About
Community coalition working to create a community where everyone feels supported in preventing and responding to suicide.
Goals
- Utilize a data-driven and community -informed approach to decrease attempts and deaths by suicide
- Increase access to resources
- Reduce stigma associated with suicide and mental health
- Increase community capacity for suicide prevention efforts
Partners
- Colorado Mesa University
- Community Hospital
- Family Health West Hospital
- HopeWest Hospice Care Center
- Mesa County Valley School District 51
- Mind Springs Health
- National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Western Slope
- St. Mary’s Medical Center
- VA Medical Center Grand Junction
- Other nonprofit organizations
- Local mental health professionals,
- Community members