Wyoming State Facts
Learn more about suicide and prevention efforts in Wyoming, including a list of laws enacted in AFSP's top priority areas. Updated: February 4, 2022.
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). The WIVPP maintains a library of suicide prevention data and publications, and 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 has increased 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.
Wyoming laws
Key:
- No law in place
- Encouraged by Law
- Required by Law
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
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