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, Rocky Mountain Crisis Partners, 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.