The TeenScreen National Center informed the design of the nation’s first national suicide prevention legislation, the Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Act. Local TeenScreen sites are helping to implement federal suicide prevention efforts. At the state level, 44 states have suicide prevention plans in place that mention screening as a key method of early identification and prevention. Nine of these states specifically endorse the use of local TeenScreen programs in: New York, Florida, Iowa, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oregon, Vermont, Delaware and Montana.

TeenScreen and the Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Act.

• State Suicide Prevention Programs.
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