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According to the CDC, "suicide is the leading cause of death in the United States. Alarmingly, in the past two decades, suicide rates have been consistently higher in rural America than in urban America. Between 2000-2020, suicide rates increased 46% in non-metro areas compared to 27.3% in metro areas. White non-Hispanic people have the highest suicide rates in urban areas (metropolitan counties) while non-Hispanic American Indian and Alaska Native people have the highest rates in rural areas. Moreover, rural residents have 1.5 times higher rate of emergency department visits for nonfatal self-harm than urban residents."
The Rural Health Information Hub offers a Suicide Prevention Toolkit which offers a compilation of evidence-based and promising models and resources to support organizations implementing suicide prevention programs in rural communities across the United States.
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