2009 State Suicide Rankings
The Idaho Council on Suicide Prevention notes that Idaho has the 4th highest suicide rate in the U.S. The 2012 Annual Report of the American Association of Suicidology is based on the recently available final numbers from 2009. In that year, suicide was the 10th leading cause of death in the U.S. To learn more about how you can prevent suicide, visit our Idaho Awareness to Action Youth Suicide Prevention project.
Upcoming Trainings
FREE Suicide Prevention Training
The ISU-IRH Awareness to Action Youth Suicide Prevention project is offering youth mental health and suicide prevention trainings in 2011-2012. Classes are free, but seating is limited. Click here to register for the training nearest you.
Recent Webinars
Social Marketing: Putting it into Practice
Presented July 19, 2011. Designed for people who are engaged in suicide prevention planning at the community level, but may be helpful to any grassroots effort for prevention or behavior change. Click here for archived webinar. Request a certificate of completion here.
Hospital Discharge Planning in Idaho
Presented on March 10, 2011. Archived webinars at www.idahohdm.org
News
October 2011Idaho Suicide Prevention Plan 2011
The Idaho Council on Suicide Prevention has issued the Idaho Suicide Prevention Plan 2011: An Action Guide with support from the Institute of Rural Health. The plan is designed to help communities create suicide prevention activities to raise awareness about the problem of suicide in Idaho, craft interventions, and design training for professionals who work with people at risk of suicide.
September 20112011 Health Care Heroes Award
Rick Tivis is an honoree in the 2011 Health Care Heroes program sponsored by the Idaho Business Review newspaper in Boise. Click here for more information.
July 2011ISU AmeriCorps programs benefit Idaho communities
The AmeriCorps program administered by the ISU Institute of Rural Health has had a profound effect on 27-year-old Cassie Stover of Hazelton, who has been an AmeriCorps health advocate for Head Start in the Burley-Twin Falls area for most of the last year. Click here for the full article.
June 2011Award-winning Auto Crash Prevention Program
IRH director Neill Piland has been notified that the San Carlos Apache Motor Vehicle Prevention Program has been selected for a 2010 Indian Health Service (IHS) Director's Award. Click here for the full article.
January 2011Simulation Training Center at Saint Alphonsus
Local channel 7 interviewed Dr. Annette Phillipp from the Institute of Rural Health regarding her work with the simulation training center at Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise. Video clip...
January 2011Shoshone-Bannock Tribes Wellness Center
The Shoshone-Bannock Tribes, with collaboration from the Idaho State University's Institute of Rural Health, have committed resources and staff to construct a fully-integrated, centrally-located community center at Fort Hall focused on health and wellness. Click here for the press release.
July 2010IRH Releases Idaho Suicide Prevention Hotline Options Report
The Institute of Rural Health has released a new report examining options for creating a suicide crisis help line in Idaho. The goal of the report is to study the benefits of a suicide prevention hotline and how one could be set up for Idaho to address the state's high suicide rate. Click here for more information and to read the report.