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Suicide Prevention and Care Program

Media Campaigns

Community is The Healer That Breaks the Silence (Thrive) Campaign

Community is the Healer that Breaks the Silence poster

The Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board (NPAIHB)Exit Disclaimer: You Are Leaving www.ihs.gov  created posters and a fact sheet to address suicide in Indian Country with the Community is the Healer that Breaks the Silence Exit Disclaimer: You Are Leaving www.ihs.gov  anti-suicide campaign.

Additional materials from this or other NPAIHB media campaigns may be downloaded from their Social Marketing Campaigns page Exit Disclaimer: You Are Leaving www.ihs.gov . To inquire about availability of paper copies, please email native@npaihb.org.

What a Difference a Friend Makes

In 2007, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and the Ad Council launched "What a Difference a Friend Makes," a media campaign encouraging young people to provide support to friends experiencing mental health issues with two print ads:

What a difference a friend makes-male
What a difference a friend makes-female

Suicide Prevention Videos

Suicide Prevention Lifeline's Zero Suicide site has"EBPs in Indian Country," Exit Disclaimer: You Are Leaving www.ihs.gov  an interview with Ester Tenorio, the Project Director of KEYWAH, San Felipe Pueblo, who talks about aligning evidence-based programs with Indigenous ways of life.

The video "Native Youth Speaks on Suicide Prevention," Exit Disclaimer: You Are Leaving www.ihs.gov  is the result of 10 suicide prevention listening sessions held throughout Indian Country by the IHS, with partners at SAMHSA and the U.S. Department of the Interior.