PREVENT FIREARM SUICIDE

Prevent Firearm Suicide is a project of the Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence (Ed Fund), developed with support from the Hope and Heal Fund, to share firearm suicide interventions, resources, and data with stakeholders who are empowered to make change. It started in 2018, when members of the Ed Fund staff published a paper in the academic journal Injury Prevention entitled "Limiting Access to Lethal Means: Applying the Social Ecological Model for Firearm Suicide Prevention." The paper outlined our multilevel firearm suicide prevention approach... Prevent Firearm Suicide was designed to raise awareness about how temporarily reducing access to firearms during periods of high risk for suicide is life-saving. As shown through our multilevel approach, many effective interventions and informative resources are available to prevent firearm suicide. We hope that this site will help you find resources you can use to prevent firearm suicide, whether that means taking preventative steps to..