Help is Available Now!
If you or someone you know is in immediate danger of harming themselves, please call 911.
If you or someone you know is experiencing suicidal thoughts, call the U.S. National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 988 or text “WYO” to 741-741 for the Crisis Text Line. People call/text to talk about lots of things: financial troubles, relationships, sexual identity, depression, illness, and loneliness, to name a few. Talking with someone about your thoughts and feelings can save your life.
The U.S. National Suicide Prevention Lifeline and the Crisis Text Line operate 24/7 and offer free support to anyone. Your county Community Mental Health Center can also provide help for mental health crises.
Find Local Support
State Level Prevention
The Injury and Violence Prevention Program hosts a quarterly Wyoming Alliance for Suicide Prevention (WASP) zoom session to discuss all things related to suicide prevention in Wyoming. This is a great opportunity to be updated on state-level activities, community activities, opportunities for collaboration, and to ask questions about happenings in your area. Please email Cathy.Hoover@wyo.gov to be included on the next invitation!
Community Level Prevention
Suicide prevention begins with community-level training and activities based on data. Community Prevention Specialists (CPS) work with local coalitions to strength prevention efforts around thoughts, feelings, risks and events that place a person at risk. Prevention focuses not only on the drivers of suicidality, but focuses equally on suicide prevention using protective factors and strengths on the individual and community levels.
For more information about community level prevention and to find your county’s CPS, please visit the website below:
https://health.wyo.gov/publichealth/prevention/community-prevention/
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Please note: The Wyoming Injury & Violence Prevention Program does not offer crisis counseling or emergency services.
Suicide Prevention Training
Suicide prevention training helps save lives. A brief description of some key suicide prevention trainings offered in Wyoming is available on our suicide prevention training page.
There are also a number of suicide prevention trainers in Wyoming. WDH publishes the Wyoming Suicide Prevention Trainers Network as a public resource.
To find out more about suicide prevention trainings or Wyoming’s suicide prevention trainer network, contact Cathy Hoover at 307-777-2923 or cathy.hoover@wyo.gov.
Suicide in Wyoming
Suicide is a leading cause of preventable death in Wyoming with negative impacts that are felt by individuals, families, and communities throughout the state. The Wyoming suicide rate is consistently higher than the US. In 201, the Wyoming suicide rate was 31.1 per 100,000 compared to the national rate of 14 per 100,000.
The 2017-2021 Wyoming State Suicide Prevention Plan provides an overview of suicide death in Wyoming, a historical perspective of suicide prevention efforts within the state, and current and planned goals and objectives for suicide prevention initiatives to be implemented. The goals and objectives have been closely aligned with the 2012 National Strategy for Suicide Prevention: Goals and Objectives for Action, a report from the U.S. Surgeon General and the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention.
For more publications and data on suicide, please see our Publications and Resources page.
