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DEFENSE SUICIDE PREVENTION OFFICE
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ISSUANCE AND GUIDANCE MEMOS
- Policy for Prevention Workforce and Leaders
  
  DOD Instruction 6400.11 establishes roles, requirements, and training and education standards for full-time and part-time Integrated Primary Prevention (IPP) personnel.
- DEFENSE SUICIDE PREVENTION PROGRAM POLICY
  
  DoD Instruction 6490.16 establishes comprehensive enterprise-wide policy on suicide prevention. It assigns responsibilities and establishes procedures for the oversight and reporting of the Defense Suicide Prevention Program.
- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE STRATEGY FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION
  
  Department of Defense Strategy for Suicide Prevention published in December 2015
- INTEGRATED VIOLENCE PREVENTION POLICY
  
  DoD Instruction 6400.09 establishes and integrates policies and responsibilities to mitigate self-directed harm and prohibited abusive or harmful acts using a career-cycle perspective to promote enduring force readiness.
- National Strategy for Suicide Prevention
  The Department of Health and Human Services launched the 2024 National Strategy for Suicide Prevention and Federal Action Plan. Federal agencies, including the DoD, have committed to specific, short-term actions to carry out related to the goals and objectives included in the National Strategy. Learn more at www.hhs.gov/nssp.
QUARTERLY SUICIDE REPORT
- QUARTERLY SUICIDE REPORT
  THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE (DOD) QUARTERLY SUICIDE REPORT (QSR) SUMMARIZES SUICIDE COUNTS AND ANNUAL RATES FOR THE ACTIVE COMPONENT, RESERVES, AND NATIONAL GUARD. THE PURPOSE OF THE QSR IS TO COMMUNICATE DOD SUICIDE DATA TO STAKEHOLDERS EXTERNAL TO DO
- MOST RECENTLY AVAILABLE DATA
- OLDER DATA AND REPORTS
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Uniform Travel Determination (UTD) for MAP 27-22(R), “Gun Safe Transportation”
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- MEMORANDUM FOR SECRETARIES OF THE MILITARY DEPARTMENTS CHAIRMAN OF THE JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF
  
  DoD Instruction 6490.16 establishes comprehensive enterprise-wide policy on suicide prevention. It assigns responsibilities and establishes procedures for the oversight and reporting of the Defense Suicide Prevention Program.
- PERSONAL SECURITY CLEARANCE AWARENESS CAMPAIGN PLAN (SF-86)
  
  DoD Instruction 6490.16 establishes comprehensive enterprise-wide policy on suicide prevention. It assigns responsibilities and establishes procedures for the oversight and reporting of the Defense Suicide Prevention Program.

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