New Mexico Suicide Intervention

Programs: The sky center's core purpose and mission is two-fold:1. Provide accessible and affordable services for youth and their families who are identified to be in need. 2. To serve as a teaching and training field site for graduate students and clinicians engaged in internship and advanced studies in the area of family and group therapy. Sky center counseling: the organization provided 3,272 family counseling hours and 1,216 group counseling hours to 509 youths and 637 adults to reduce the risk of suicide. 12 behavioral health graduate student interns and advanced studies students received 6,318 total hours of training at the sky center.

natural helpers is a peer-helping program situated in eight santa fe schools during the 2016-17 school year. The program targets a diverse, cross-section of middle and high school students. Its purpose is to create a caring and supportive community within each school by teaching selected students to respond effectively when they or their peers experience a wide range of difficulties. Over the last 22 years, nmsip has developmed training, education and public awareness programs that have delivered vital suicide prevention training skills and awareness information to several thousand students, school teachers and staff, behavioral health specialists, faith community leaders, youth service organizations and parents. Education and training: 155 middle and high school students were trained as natural helpers in santa fe's public middle and high schools. 8,159 hours of suicide pervention training, volunteer community service work, and peer programming occured during the academic school year. 542 youth and 517 adults received training in suicide prevention which resulted in a total of 2,049. 90 training hours.