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Goals and Strategies
The four goals and 10 strategies are created for Florida communities, individuals, families, businesses,
employers, state and local governments, non-profit and faith-based organizations, health systems, insurers, and
clinicians to implement and assist in reducing deaths by suicide.
Focus Area: Awareness
Goal 1: Enhance awareness of suicide prevention.
Strategy 1.1: Improve access to suicide prevention resources through various media.
Strategy 1.2: Improve the quality of information available about suicide prevention in local communities.
Strategy 1.3: Raise awareness on how to reduce access to lethal means.
Focus Area: Prevention
Goal 2: Increase prevention education approaches.
Strategy 2.1: Implement suicide prevention trainings.
Strategy 2.2: Increase suicide prevention efforts to target high-risk and special populations.
Strategy 2.3: Adopt an evidence-based suicide prevention model.
Focus Area: Intervention
Goal 3: Increase suicide intervention trainings.
Strategy 3.1: Facilitate interagency collaboration to improve access to mental health and suicide care services.
Strategy 3.2: Promote the use of evidence-based interventions that target suicide risk.
Focus Area: Postvention
Goal 4: Increase postvention efforts.
Strategy 4.1: Implement postvention training in the workplace.
Strategy 4.2: Provide resources that assist with postvention.
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