Guidelines

This resource from the Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN) will help you develop a non-profit website that is effective and engaging. It includes a list of the top 10 elements of an effective nonprofit website, as well as examples illustrating each element.

A new 2022 public perception national survey of over 2,000 adults in the U.S. to better understand the public’s beliefs and attitudes about mental health and suicide. The survey, conducted by The Harris Poll on behalf of the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention (Action Alliance), American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP), and the Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC)—builds upon past surveys in 2015, 2018, and 2020. Learn more at SuicidePreventionNow.org. 

This guide, from the Australian Mindframe project, aims to provide some practical tips on safe ways to discuss suicide publicly, ensuring any risks are managed while also increasing the community understanding of suicide.

This resource guide offers information and resources to help practitioners throughout health and social service systems implement best practices in engaging and helping families and caregivers to support their lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) children. Research has shown that compared to LGBT young adults who reported high levels of family rejection during adolescence were 8.4 times more likely to report having attempted suicide. 

This toolkit provides measures to help advocates examine the impact of anti-stigma approaches at the local level.  It distinguishes the stigma of mental illness into three groups: public stigma, self-stigma, and label avoidance. The toolkit outlines aims to help advocates evaluate their efforts in an accessible way, while also providing a common language and set of measures for advocates and researchers to discuss measuring stigma change.

Includes framing theory, message development techniques and vehicles for explaining public health statistics.

This guide from the Communications Network is intended to help nonprofits be more effective in evaluating their communications efforts. It offers solutions in easy-to-use formats to help you prepare your communications upfront and evaluate as you go along.

Developed by industry and mental health experts, this resource offers three levels of response to suicidal ideation or intent ranging from Basic to Advanced.

This portal provides information concerning effective prevention and public health policies and interventions, as well as the use of credible evidence of prevention’s impact by policy makers, health care and the business community. It links to the CDC Health Policy Series, a collection of policy briefs designed to provide practical guidance to state and local public health practitioners, highlighting specific opportunities for public health to engage with health care to improve population health. The CDC Policy Process provides a framework which includes domains from problem identification through evaluation.

This guide, developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), was designed to provide guidance to help you write more effectively for different new media channels, including Facebook, Twitter, and mobile phone text messaging.