Suicide Prevention

Social Determinants & Negative Coping

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Rethinking the Construction Industry’s Suicide Prevention Model Will Save Lives Today

The construction industry has one of the highest suicide rates by population for males.

Overview

Today, the burden lies on the individual already in distress to seek out solutions, such as enrolling in an assistance program or calling a suicide prevention hotline. ClearForce’s technology takes a proactive approach to suicide prevention and mental health intervention by analyzing evidence-based behavioral risk indicators in real-time, allowing for personalized, secure proactive outreach to at-risk individuals.

The Problem

Today, the burden rests with the individual to ask for help, through a suicide prevention hotline or community assistance program. Outreach efforts are limited, often generalized for awareness and in most cases calendar-based.


The Solution

ClearForce delivers real-time continual “push” based alerting of evidenced-based behavioral risk and patterns of compounding pressure often identified in financial, criminal, social media, and web-based direct reporting. Organizational leaders can then engage at-risk individuals with positive mitigation options to prevent suicide.

Challenges

  • Suicide rates historically high in most demographic cohorts
  • 20 Veterans die by suicide each day, 14 have no contact with VA at time of death
  • Too much relies upon the individual to initiative engagement

Benefits

  • Real-time alerting of evidence-based behavioral risk indicators
  • Dynamic, proactive outreach to at-risk individuals
  • Increases self and support group reporting of concerning behavior
Young woman sitting in a chair

Jessica

Job Role: Mental Health Coordinator
Sector: State Veterans Affairs
Needs: More dynamic outreach

Situation

Jessica leads communication outreach for the State’s Veteran Suicide Prevention Unit. She and her team proactively contacts Veterans in need of mental wellness support and an understanding of the State’s available programs and resources.

Challenge

Because of resource constraints, she was limited to calendar-based outreach campaigns.

Solution

With ClearForce, Susan drives more timely outreach based on real-time reports directly from Veterans or their designed family members.