Important Information for Communities, Families and Friends

Recognizing risk and protective factors is essential when developing suicide prevention and intervention efforts to address adolescent suicide.  This section includes fact sheets on the risk and protective factors associated with adolescent suicide as well as the warning signs associated with acute suicide risk among adolescent girls. 

• Risk Factors
• Protective Factors
• Warning Signs
• References

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