ABSTRACT
JED established a panel of advisors including several experts who had taken part in the development and assessment of the Air Force model, suicide prevention researchers from the Suicide Prevention Resource Center and higher education-based mental health clinicians and student service professionals to consider how the Air Force model might be adjusted to the needs and contours of college life. The Comprehensive Model includes seven strategic areas that should be addressed in any community-wide effort to support mental health and to limit substance misuse and suicide. Human beings begin our lives inexorably connected and dependent on others for survival. Distressed students and their families, campus staff and/or faculty, or the student's friends may all be in a position to notice a problem and support a referral or provide help. Help-seeking intentions are culturally mediated and vary by age, sex, minority status, and rural versus urban location. Numerous studies document means restriction as a powerful method of suicide prevention.
