Stats
What is suicide?
This common mistake includes saying things like, "It’s not that a big a deal.”
What is minimizing?
This demographic group had an elevated rate of 29.4% compared to 6.4% of attempting suicide.
Who is LGBTQ folx?
This is defined as death caused by self-directed injurious behavior with intent to die as a result of the behavior.
What is suicide?
This is the percentage of individuals that have died by suicide that had an underlying mental illness.
This includes having conversations with students away from other students and not sharing their information with other students or staff.
This common mistake includes saying things like, "You’re blowing this way out of proportion."
What is criticizing?
These risk factors can include things like easy access to lethal means or local clusters of suicide.
What is environmental?
This refers to thinking about, considering, or planning suicide.
What is suicidal ideation?
This demographic group in Minnesota has a rate two times higher than the national average of deaths caused by suicide.
Who are American Indians?
This is response that includes listening without judgment, contradiction, or problem-solving.
This common mistake includes saying things like, "You'll feel better in the morning!"
What is predicting?
These risk factors can include barriers to accessing health care, especially mental health and substance abuse treatment and lack of social support and sense of isolation.
What is socio-cultural?
This is how you can access a crisis text line for Minnesota.
What is texting "MN" to 741-741?
This high school specific data trend in teens has not changed over the past 10 years.
What is attempted suicide?
These questions include using phrases like, "How badly do you feel right now? How badly have you been feeling lately?"
What is identifying the level of distress and providing normalization?
This common mistake includes saying things like "You have so much going for you!"
What is refuting?
What is drug/substance use/abuse?
This common mistake includes saying things like, "You’re looking at this all wrong."
What is blaming?
In 2017 this how many deaths were reported due to suicide.
What is 783?
This will not cause the person to become upset or feel worse and will not make a person feel suicidal.
It can also provide comfort, hope, and safety.
What is asking directly about suicide?
This common mistake includes saying things like "You’ve got better things to worry about than this break-up."
What is dismissing?
These risk factors can include mental illness, impulsiveness, and history of trauma or abuse.
What is bio-psycho-social?
This demographic group within Minnesota did not experience higher rates of suicide over the past 10 years.
Who are African Americans?