Recommendations from an American Indian reservation community-based suicide prevention program

Effective community-based suicide prevention strategies require culturally relevant, contextually driven approaches, validated by community members. Existing literature, funding agencies, and policies do not adequately address the differences in community vs. non-community definitions and approaches to suicide prevention. These differences and the process must be articulated to fully understand the complexities of effective American Indian community-based suicide prevention strategies. This paper discusses these issues.