24 HOUR CRISIS LINE (316) 660-7500
24-hour Suicide Prevention
If
you or someone you know is talking about
SUICIDE
please call
Suicide Prevention Services - 24
hours / 7 days per week
(316) 660-7500
Crisis Intervention Services (CIS) has been the suicide prevention service for many years in Sedgwick County. At CIS, priority is given to assessment of and intervention with callers who are at risk for suicide.
News, Articles and Events
Mental Health First Aid Training
Mental Health First Aid is a training course designed to improve understanding of mental health matters among:
Mental Health First Aid is a groundbreaking public education
program that helps the public identify, understand, and respond to signs of
mental illnesses and substance use disorders. Mental Health First Aid is offered
in the form of an interactive 12-hour course that presents an overview of mental
illness and substance use disorders and introduces participants to risk factors
and warning signs of mental health problems, builds understanding of their
impact, and overviews common treatments.
Those who take the 12-hour course to certify as Mental Health First Aiders learn
a five-step action plan encompassing the skills, resources and knowledge to help
an individual in crisis connect with appropriate professional, peer, social, and
self-help care. The 12-hour Mental Health First Aid has benefited a variety of
audiences and key professions, including hospitals, employers and business
leaders, faith communities, school personnel, state policymakers, families and
the general public.
Click here to access a flier about the March 29 and 30, 2012 Mental Health First Aid training.
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Listen to Mental Health First Aid being discussed on “Talk of the Nation” on NPR.
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Watch interview on ABC News Now about Mental Health First Aid.
If You Fear Someone Will Take His or Her Life
Click here to read an article about the signs of suicide and how to help someone exhibiting them.
Survivors of Suicide Handbook
When an individual commits suicide, he/she leaves behind a network of survivors who will struggle to make sense of it for years to come. Emotions run the gamut and the questions are endless, but with the right help, survivors can begin to regain hope.
The Survivors of Suicide Handbook was created by the Sedgwick County Suicide Prevention Coalition in conjunction with local survivors as a resource that helps survivors begin to identify, understand and heal from their loss.
Suicide is Everybody's Business
Each year, there are more suicides in our community than homicides, yet no one speaks of the 16-year-old boy who couldn’t handle another day of being bullied at school, or the 87-year-old grandmother who suffered from hopelessness and desperation and how they both ended their lives. Conversations about suicide do not happen openly because it’s uncomfortable, and many of us just don’t understand it.
It's time for these conversations to happen. Talking about suicide will not cause more suicides; in fact, the opposite is true. Suicide is preventable.
The Economy and Suicide
The current world economic crisis has led to increased media and personal interest in the relationship between the economy and suicide.
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