Student wellness tip: Promoting suicide prevention on campuses

College students are reporting greater mental health concerns today than ever before, which includes suicidal ideation. Supporting holistic student success on college campuses involves suicide prevention work. Suicide prevention month, recognized each September, is an opportunity for colleges and universities to provide intentional programming and education around mental health, self-harm and other risk factors for death by suicide. What’s the need: In 2022, around 13.6 young people (ages 15 to 23) per 100,000 died by suicide. Youth suicide (ages 10 to 24) declined 8.4 percent from 2021 to 2022. Suicide is considering a leading cause of death in the United States, among all adults, with one death every 11 minutes.