Training professionals and other key personnel in suicide prevention is one of the five priority areas of the national plan implemented to prevent suicidal behavior. The goal is to train...

Xavier-Marmier Comprehensive High School in Pontarlier (Doubs) has nearly 1,500 students, including 280 boarders. A teaching assistant and a nurse completed the "Suicide Risk Prevention"...

Moved by the final writings of people who had taken their own lives, psychiatrist Jérôme Motto came up with the idea of reaching out to everyone who had attempted suicide. This...

The VigilanS program is available to anyone who has attempted suicide. The goal is to maintain contact—via phone or mail—and to arrange the most appropriate follow-up care if necessary....

The National Union for Suicide Prevention (UNPS) emphasizes the importance of the telephone counseling services provided by organizations as part of the current system for providing...

French authorities are set to establish a national hotline to improve suicide prevention efforts, thereby following experts' recommendations. According to available scientific studies,...

Suicide prevention in France relies in particular on the training of three types of responders with distinct roles: the sentinel, the suicide risk assessor, and the crisis responder....

Paradoxically, remaining silent about suicide hinders any possibility of prevention. The right words to discuss suicide or suicide attempts do exist, in the form of reporting that...

Several international programs—including Youth Aware of Mental Health (YAM)—have highlighted an effective strategy for preventing suicide and suicidal thoughts: raising young people’s...

An innovative process launched under the auspices of the World Health Organization (WHO), this assessment measures the impacts—both positive and negative—that urban planning projects and...