Resources

We educate for life

There are only four recognized best practices in suicide prevention, and one of those is education. Here at the Centre for Suicide Prevention, we offer workshops that can help someone identify and intervene with a person at risk of suicide.

Help save a life!

How to help someone who is suicidal.

What does successful recovery look like?

Our latest editorial article asks "What does sucessful recovery look like?" in regards to mental illness, addiction, and suicide.

Physician-Assisted Death and Suicide

What is the difference between Physician Assisted Death and Suicide?

Men and Suicide

Men and Suicide: Men have the highest number of suicides. This infographic explains why this group is most at-risk of suicide.

Women and Suicide

Depression is a major risk factor for suicide, and it disproportionately affects women.

Suicide stats for Canada and provinces

Excel spreadsheet of suicide statistics for Canada nationally, as well as for the individual provinces and territories.

What’s Up With Canada’s Game: Exploring Mental Illness in Hockey

This special feature examines the growing importance of men’s mental health issues in recent National Hockey League memoirs.

After A Student Suicide

This toolkit provides practical information to schools after a student has died by suicide.

Suicide Attempt Survivors and the Value of Lived Experience

This column looks at an often neglected group in the suicide prevention community—those who have attempted suicide and lived through it.

Mental Wellness and Suicide Prevention

This infoExchange focuses on the importance of mental wellness in suicide prevention.

Frequently Asked Questions

Frequently asked questions about suicide.

First Responders & Trauma Intervention and Suicide Prevention

First Responders — Paramedics, Firefighters, Police — are at a high risk for both trauma and suicide.

Teen Suicide

Suicide remains the second leading cause of death for young people in Canada.

Suicide, Rock Music and Moral Panics

Does rock music (and subcultures associated with the music) incite youth to suicidal behaviours?

Depression and Suicide Prevention

This toolkit focuses on the relationship between Major Depression and suicide prevention.

Senior’s Suicide Prevention

Suicide Prevention Resource Toolkit focusing on Seniors and Suicide.

Welcome back a student who experienced suicidality

Self-harm and suicide

This webinar discusses self-harm and suicide in students.

Why do people kill themselves?

This issue examines different theorists in suicide research and how our understanding of suicidal behaviour is ever-evolving.

What to do after a suicide

This webinar will walk teachers through what to do after a student in the school community has died by suicide.

What we wish all teachers knew about suicide

This webinar encompasses 5 things we wish teachers knew about suicide.

Men and Suicide

Suicide Prevention Resource Toolkit focusing on Men and Suicide.

School suicide prevention programs

This webinar gives insight into the creation and implementation of suicide prevention programs in schools.

Social Connectedness and Suicide Prevention

Social connectedness is important to suicide prevention – especially in the lives of men, who are more likely to be socially isolated than women.

Military Suicide Prevention

This toolkit focuses on suicide prevention in the military.

Anxiety disorders, depression and suicide

The 5 things we wish teachers knew about anxiety disorders, depression and suicide.

“Jumping” and Suicide Prevention

This issue explores why people choose to die by suicide by jumping off high structures such as building and bridges.

Substance Use Disorder and Suicide

The abuse of alcohol or drugs is second to depression as the most frequent risk factor for suicidal behaviour.

LGBT youth and suicide

This webinar talks about LGBT youth in schools and their relationship with suicide.