International Association for Suicide Prevention

The leading global NGO on suicide prevention, the International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP), now has 14,000 Facebook Fans who support increased suicide prevention awareness locally and across the globe.

The International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP) has published a World Suicide Prevention Day (September 10th) brochure and a list of suggested activities for individuals and organizations to use in planning their participation.

The International Association for Suicide Prevention announces the launch of a Special Interest Group devoted to deepening understanding of clusters and contagion in suicidal behaviour.

The International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP) needs less than 800 Facebook Fans to reach it's goal of 10,000 Facebook users who support suicide prevention locally and throughout the world.

The IASP has shortened its Facebook Fan page URL to: facebook.com/IASPinfo in order to offer Facebook and Web users easy access to the page.

The International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP) has prepared World Suicide Prevention Day banners in 39 languages to be used by bloggers wishing to write about suicide prevention in their mother tongues.

The IASP will hold the first-ever Facebook Fan-Raising weekend on March 13th and 14th to help increase awareness of suicide prevention locally and worldwide and to raise 50,000 fans in honour of the organization's 50th anniversary.

The International Association for Suicide Prevention is using Facebook and Twitter to increase awareness about World Suicide Prevention Day on September 10th, and suicide prevention generally.

The International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP) has published a paper which concludes that despite a few highly-publicized spectacular suicides during the period, increases in suicide were not dramatic in the United States.