Colleges and Universities

Resources for Campus Pages Overview

The following list contains items specific to this page.

  • Campus Mental Health Action Planning (CampusMHAP) Webinar Series

    The Jed Foundation and Education Development Center, Inc. offered this series of four webinars in 2008-09, featuring suicide prevention experts and campus prevention staff as presenters.

  • National Strategy for Suicide Prevention: Goals and Objectives for Action

    The National Strategy for Suicide Prevention articulates 11 goals and 68 objectives, provides a framework for action to prevent suicide, and guides the development of an array of services and programs.

  • Promoting Mental Health and Preventing Suicide in College and University Settings

    This 2004 white paper summarizes available data on suicidal behavior among college students and recommends strategies to promote mental health and prevent suicide on campuses.

  • Risk and protective factors for suicide

    This document, created by the Suicide Prevention Resource Center (2003), contains risk and protective factors for suicide along with a reference list. Content is from the National Strategy for Suicide Prevention: Goals and Objectives for Action (2001).


This section supports Objective 4.3 of the NSSP: Increase the proportion of colleges and universities with evidence-based programs designed to address serious young adult distress and prevent suicide.