See also Youth Suicide . If you are crisis, 1st call 911 while you're looking in the front of your local yellow pages for the number of the local suicide prevention hotline. If you can't get through to either of those, click on Emergency Numbers.
Firearms are the most common method of suicide by youth.
Professionals who come in contact with at-risk youth and their families must be educated to routinely ask about the presence and method of storage of firearms in the home, and to educate all families about safe storage practice for families who choose to keep guns. Selective Interventions Develop, disseminate, and evaluate technologies that would decrease firearm operability by youth, thereby making it much more difficult for an adolescent to use a gun for a suicide and increase market demand for these new technologies. Seek partnerships and collaborations with organizations and agencies that have a shared stake in the issues of youth suicide and violence, such as religious organizations, youth service organizations, juvenile justice, child welfare, community service organizations. Product-based research to develop technologies to increase the safety of firearms. A better understanding of the cognitions, attitudes, and motivations for gun ownership and safe storage behaviors Do research the gender differences in youth suicide.