Goal: Evaluate prevention activities to identify strengths, gaps, and to determine if they are having their intended effect.

Objective: Increase capacity for the evaluation of suicide prevention programs.

Action Steps:

1. Increase access to resources for organizations to complete process and outcome evaluations for suicide prevention programs.

• Encourage organizations to partner with universities to perform or provide technical assistance for program evaluations.

2. Include storytelling and qualitative data collection in program evaluations.

3. Conduct long-term follow-up evaluations for suicide prevention trainings and programs to examine their lasting effect.

4. Provide participants with incentives to complete program and training evaluations.

5. Establish lived experience advisory boards to review suicide prevention program outcomes by race, ethnicity, gender identity, disability, and geography.

6. Share evaluation results widely with the public and suicide prevention program participants. Results can be shared in a variety of creative ways, including written reports and other types of media.