Now Matters Now
The website Now Matters Now offers free, community-based peer-support and skills grounded in DBT (Dialectical Behavior Therapy) to help people cope with emotional crisis, suicidal thoughts, addiction, and intense life struggles.
Topic: Suicide Prevention
Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality (CAMS) Framework
The Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality (CAMS) Framework is an evidence-based therapeutic approach that helps clinicians and clients work together to assess, understand, and treat the specific drivers of suicidal thoughts and behaviors.
The Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS)
The Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS), the most evidence-supported tool of its kind, is a simple series of questions that anyone can use anywhere in the world to prevent suicide.
CALM: Counseling on Access to Lethal Means
Reducing access to lethal means, such as firearms and medication, can determine whether a person at risk for suicide lives or dies. This free online course focuses on how to reduce access to the methods people use to kill themselves. It covers how to: (1) identify people who could benefit from lethal means counseling, (2) ask about their access to lethal methods, and (3) work with them—and their families—to reduce access.
Washoe Suicide Prevention Alliance
The Washoe Suicide Prevention Alliance (WSPA) is a collaborative network of local organizations and community partners working to reduce suicide in Washoe County through education, awareness, lethal means safety, and coordinated prevention efforts.
Temporary Secure Gun Storage Network (Find Temporary Secure Gun Storage in Washoe County)
This map is to help anyone seeking temporary, voluntary firearm storage options in Washoe County. When possible, temporarily removing all access to firearms, ammunition, or disarming firearm components – such a bolt or firing is important to keep persons at risk for suicide safe for now.