New Mexico Human Services Department (NSSP)

This initiative is developing a Zero Suicide culture. The goals of this initiative are to: (1) promote suicide prevention as a core component of health care; (2) implement effective practices for assessing and treating those at risk for suicide; (3) ensure meaningful collaboration with people who have lived experience of suicide; and (4) implement strategies to address behavioral health disparities for those with limited access to care (e.g., people in rural and frontier areas, culturally diverse populations, and veterans). This initiative works at the local level to pilot the model and at the state level to impact policy and sustain and spread the model statewide.