Goals                                                                       

• Engage a broad and diverse group of participants representing relevant campus and community partners, to oversee, coordinate and implement a comprehensive suicide prevention program, including screening, education, crisis management, policy development, and outreach activities;
• Perform wide-ranging surveillance of suicide risk and response on the OSU campus;
• Develop an extensive gatekeepers training system based on emerging best practices that increases knowledge of suicide risk factors, imminent warning signs, prevention strategies, referral resources, and protective mechanisms;
• Expand suicide prevention education and programming to all students to increase knowledge of suicide risk factors, imminent warning signs, prevention strategies, referral resources, and protective mechanisms;
• Increase help-seeking and decrease stigma among students;
• Develop a comprehensive Suicide Prevention Plan for The Ohio State University;
• Evaluate all components of the OSU campus Suicide Prevention Program and disseminate outcome measurements to appropriate audiences.