Library of Publications

A Consensus Approach and Recommendations for the Creation of a Comprehensive Crisis Response System

November 18, 2021

CEO Collaborative

MAMH joined 14 other mental health professional organizations, advocacy groups, and funders in releasing a consensus plan to guide implementation of 988, a new crisis hotline scheduled to go online nationwide in July 2022.

Suicide Prevention in Prisons: Ensuring Dignity and Constitutional Rights of Prisoners on Mental Health Watch

June 24, 2021

MAMH

This Fact Sheet provides an overview of MA legislation to rectify serious safety and constitutional concerns identified by the U.S. Department of Justice after an investigation of the MA Department of Correction’s suicide prevention and response practices.

MAMH FY22 Budget Priorities

April 12, 2021

MAMH

MAMH's FY22 budget priorities.

Estimated COVID-19 Behavioral Health Outcomes: Research in Perspective to Inform Action to Mitigate Morbidity and Mortality

June 18, 2020

Danna Mauch, Catia Sharp (MAMH)

In this policy brief, MAMH projects that the recession we have entered because of COVID-19 social distancing efforts will increase deaths from suicide and overdose between 12 and 60 percent in Massachusetts.

National Guidelines for Crisis Care: A Best Practice Toolkit

February 26, 2020

SAMHSA

The SAMHSA National Guidelines for Crisis Care: A Best Practice Toolkit advances national guidelines in crisis care within a toolkit that supports program design, development, implementation and continuous quality improvement efforts.

Continuity of Care for Suicide Prevention and Research

September 19, 2019

Suicide Prevention Resource Center, American Association of Suicidology, and University of Michigan Health System

This report commissioned by the Suicide Prevention Resource Center provides an overview of research related to suicide attempts and suicide deaths subsequent to discharge from an emergency department or inpatient psychiatry unit and makes recommendations for change.

Signs of Suicide Prevention Program

August 16, 2019

MAMH

Fact sheet on MindWise's Signs of Suicide Prevention Program

Suicide Attempts among Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Adults

July 21, 2019

Ann Haas, Philip Rodgers, and Jody Herman

This report by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law describes key findings of the National Transgender Discrimination Survey.

Preventing Suicide: A Toolkit for High Schools

June 25, 2019

SAMHSA

This toolkit assists high schools and school districts in designing and implementing strategies to prevent suicide and promote behavioral health.