Governor Richardson’s Youth Suicide Prevention Task Force: Preventing Youth Suicide. Recommendations to the Governor, January 7, 2005

This document presents the recommendations of Governor Richardson’s Youth Suicide Prevention Task Force, for reducing the rate of youth suicide in the state of New Mexico. The recommendations focus on developing a statewide strategy & are thus tied to a variety of current state funding sources including disaster preparedness, public education, & behavioural health redesign. Recommendations are also directed to the communities, schools & programs that will not directly benefit from these additional resources.