Need help now?

• Call 1-844-493-8255, text "TALK" to 38255, or visit coloradocrisisservices.org. *If this is an emergency call 911.

Emergency departments and suicidal patients

• Print materials, tools, and training opportunities for emergency departments and mental health centers working to prevent suicide.

Primary care provides

• Print materials and training opportunities for primary care providers working to prevent suicide.

Public health

• Resources for public health professionals and policymakers regarding suicide prevention.

After a suicide attempt or suicidal experience

• Resources and materials for survivors of suicide attempts and suicidal experiences and their supporters.

After a suicide loss

• Resources and materials for suicide loss survivors, including individuals, families, communities, schools, workplaces, and organizations.

Youth and young adult suicide prevention

• Resources and materials supporting suicide prevention for young people in Colorado.

Colorado Hospital Follow-Up project

Colorado’s Hospital Follow-Up Project is a collaboration between CDPHE’s Office of Suicide Prevention, University of Colorado School of Medicine Division of Community, Population, and Public Mental Health, Second Wind Fund, and health systems across the state. Follow-up services are telephonic caring contacts offered to clients discharged from an emergency department after experiencing a mental health crisis or overdose event.

• The Colorado Follow-Up Project provides free telephonic caring contacts for patients. These contacts typically occur weekly for 30 days, a high-risk time post-discharge.

Zero Suicide Colorado

Zero Suicide is a framework for safety and quality improvement in heath care, rooted in the belief that suicide deaths among people receiving care in health systems are preventable.

• Access Zero Suicide tools and resources to help your health system implement dedicated quality improvement initiatives to provide responsive care.

• Learn more about current funding and grant opportunities.
• Learn more about the Office of Suicide Prevention community grantees.

• Learn more about priority public health initiatives, data resources, and current grantees.

Interactive data visualization dashboard

• Learn more about Colorado-specific data using the interactive data visualization dashboard utilizing Colorado Violent Death Reporting System Data. 
  • There is a guide for using the data dashboard. (PDF)

Mortality data differences

• Our local coroner provides suicide mortality data that differs from what CDPHE sources report for our region. Why are there differences?
  • A coroner will include deaths or fatal injuries occurring in their county regardless of where the decedent resided. 
  • The CDPHE Suicide Dashboard includes deaths only for Colorado residents and the county they reside in (regardless of where the fatal injury occurred). 
  • The difference between local coroners and CDPHE data could also be due to CDPHE’s use of the CDC-assigned cause of death codes which are based on the information recorded on death certificates and updated months after a death. These data from death certifications may differ from what a coroner assigns as the cause of death and can be updated at a later point in time. 
  • Additionally, CDPHE sometimes sees additional suicide 'occurrences' in counties that are sometimes a 'destination' for suicide attempts, often those places with mountains or other features associated with suicide (e.g. a cliff or some specific aesthetic value). If people travel from outside a county to such a destination, the coroner and CDPHE numbers will differ.
     

• A variety of data resources, general injury reports, and data on:
  • suicide
  • adult falls
  • prescription drug abuse
  • motor vehicle
  • child fatality and abuse
  • marijuana
  • sexual violence
  • infant safe sleep

• The suicide investigation form is a tool for investigators to use during the death investigation process.