Nevada
Nevada suicide prevention plans and initiatives
In 2003 Nevada law created the Statewide Program for Suicide Prevention and mandated it be led by a State Suicide Prevention Coordinator, who must also employ at least one person to act as a trainer for suicide prevention and networking facilitator (NRS § 439.511). The Program is now housed within the Office of Suicide Prevention (OSP), established in 2005 within the Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Public and Behavioral Health (DHHS/DPBH).
In 2013 Nevada law established the Committee to Review Suicide Fatalities (CRSF) within DHHS, and OSP worked to develop the protocols and tools to establish structure in that first year (NRS §§ 439.5102 to 5108). A 2016 report developed by the CRSF illuminated some of the specific issues and concerns for Nevada, and in order to move the report’s 12 recommendations forward, the Nevada Office of Suicide Prevention Action Plan 2017-2019 was created to guide future work and to serve as a communication tool with stakeholders.