The strategies for prevention put forth by this state plan are organized into three tiers:

Tier 1: Community-Based Prevention: Promoting mental health, suicide prevention and postvention in the places where we live, work, study, worship, and age, outside of formal care services.

Tier 2: Prevention and Intervention Across the Continuum of Care: Improve suicide care and support throughout the range of services in health and behavioral health systems.

Tier 3: Data Collection and Program Evaluation: Build capacity in local and state partners to improve data on suicide in our state. Promote program evaluation to build collective understanding of the most impactful interventions to increase protective factors, reduce risk factors, and prevent suicide.