Pikes Peak Suicide Prevention Partnership

The gun project reduced the access to leathal means of Suicide and gave education to firearm retailers and consumers about the correlation between safe firearm storage and Suicide Prevention. Safe storage information was provided to 104 firearm retailers.

In the area of intervention, ppspp provided 960 individual therapy sessions, 1,047 peer support contracts and 173 group sessions and 300 discharge care packages were distributed to local youth getting discharged from an in patient hospital stay after an attempt, to connect them to the resources and provide coping tools and safety tips for their reentry back into the community.

Ppspp provides training for community members to educate them on awareness and Suicide Prevention. The related expenses were for certification of the individuals to facilitate these trainings in the community. The revenue is driven from organizations who directly support the facilitation of these trainings. We provided Suicide Prevention trainings or presentations to 1,669 community members. We participated in 115 community outreach events providing awareness and resource information to the public. Ppspp developed a training video regarding safe messaging about Suicide with a training policy template for local media partners. We also developed the framework for the loss (local outreach for Suicide survirors) team that will be providing immediate support to Suicide loss surviors.