Strategic Plan
The 海角在线’s Impact-Made Strategic Plan (2026-2029) is designed to strengthen our community, elevate research-informed practice, and advance high-quality suicide prevention efforts. This plan centers on expanding member engagement, enhancing professional training, elevating the role of lived experience, and supporting the behavioral health crisis response system with evidence-based resources.
海角在线 Members feel connected and supported.
- Engage in community development to ensure 海角在线 is viewed as a 鈥渂ig tent鈥� where all perspectives and roles in suicide prevention are valued.
- Build a robust membership of individuals and organizational members who feel connected to 海角在线 and its mission.
- Increase both the number of conference attendees and the percentage of those attendees who are 海角在线 members.
- Increase the national visibility of 海角在线 as a resource to partner entities and the public.
Research informs suicide prevention practice, program development, and policy change.
- Plan and execute a robust annual conference that connects research to practice while uniting the field.
- Increase utilization of the Journal by members to inform practice.
- Educate the public through impactful social media messaging.
- Develop a content鈥憆ich, members鈥憃nly newsletter to advance the mission of connecting research to practice.
- Engage in public dialogue in a manner that educates and elevates best鈥憄ractice suicide prevention approaches and policies.
- Ensure the website serves as a valuable resource, as evidenced by increased public engagement.
Professionals are equipped with suicide-specific knowledge and skills to prevent, intervene, and provide meaningful postvention responses.
- Increase the number of Crisis Specialists certified by 海角在线.
- Enhance the Training Catalog.
- Launch the Psychological Autopsy Certification.
- Increase attendance in Death Investigation Training.
- Partner with population鈥憇pecific entities to develop identity鈥慴ased resources.
Communities utilize population-specific, research-informed, culturally inclusive suicide-prevention practices.
- Create and staff 鈥淐ommunities of Practice鈥� to identify and elevate impactful approaches.
- Address the needs of county and state鈥憀evel suicide prevention entities to reduce suicide in their service areas.
- Advance state legislation requiring the use of psychological autopsies/suicide death investigations and the annual release of statewide suicide data.
- Develop partnership agreements with population-specific suicide prevention and crisis entities.
Crisis Call centers provide high-quality professional interventions.
- Adhere to established quality standards and ensure timely accreditation and re鈥慳ccreditation processes.
- Increase the number of call centers seeking accreditation.
- Review accreditation standards by January 2027 to ensure they promote best practices.
- Advance state legislation to mandate crisis call center accreditation with public reporting.
The voices of lived experience, including suicide loss, are valued within the 海角在线 community.
- Share knowledge of impactful responses, such as Loss Teams.
- Elevate the voices of lived experience across all 海角在线 platforms to ensure that both scientific research and the personal/community impact of suicide are represented.
- Ensure robust programming at the Healing After Suicide Loss Summit (HASLS).