Wyoming
Wyoming suicide prevention plans and initiatives
Wyoming law establishes a suicide prevention program within the Wyoming Department of Health (WDH), Wyoming Injury & Violence Prevention Program (WIVPP) (§ 9-2-102). WIVPP program leadership receives advice and counsel from the Wyoming Suicide Prevention Advisory Council (WySPAC), a statewide group of individuals and organizations created to improve well-being by reducing suicidal behaviors over the lifespan. Since 2013, Wyoming has had a state director of suicide prevention and three full-time suicide prevention regional coordinators to work directly with communities and increase suicide prevention efforts. In January of 2017, the WDH released Preventing Suicide in Wyoming: 2017-2021 State Suicide Prevention Plan, developed in collaboration with WySPAC and the Prevention Management Organization of Wyoming. In 2023, the Wyoming Legislature passed HB 65, which established an advisory body to make recommendations to WDH regarding the planning and implementation of 988.
Wyoming laws
Key:
- Required by law
- Encouraged by law
- No law in place
Crisis lines and 988 implementation
- Addresses 988 infrastructure and provides for telecom user fee
- Addresses 988 infrastructure but does not include telecom user fee
- 988 law limited to creating an exploratory commission, advisory committee, or task force
Mental health parity
- Public health plans (e.g., Medicaid) regularly submit parity compliance analyses to state regulators
- Private health plans (individual and group) regularly submit parity compliance analyses to state regulators
K – 12 school suicide prevention
- Inclusion of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline and/or other crisis line(s) on student ID cards
- Student allowances for excused mental health absences
- School personnel must report student suicide risk to a parent and/or guardian
- Suicide prevention and/or mental health training for certain school personnel, annual
- Suicide prevention and/or mental health training for certain school personnel, not annual
- Suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention policies/programming
- Student education on suicide prevention
Health professional training in suicide assessment, treatment and management
- Mental health professionals receive regular training
- Mental health professionals receive one time training
- Medical/surgical professionals receive regular training
- Medical/surgical professionals receive one time training
Conversion therapy bans
- Prohibits licensed/board certified mental health providers from engaging in conversion therapy with minors under 18 years of age
- Prohibits licensed/board certified mental health providers from engaging in conversion therapy with vulnerable adults
- Prohibits use of state funds for any purpose related to conversion therapy (e.g., conducting, making a referral for, or extending health benefits coverage for)
University and college campus suicide prevention
- Inclusion of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline and/or other crisis line(s) on student ID cards
- Students receive information on available mental health and/or suicide prevention services and/or resources
- Adoption of suicide prevention/awareness policy or program