Our Strategy

The Action Alliance Strategic Priorities, identified in 2024, have the commitment and buy-in from Executive Committee (EXCOM) partners and their organizations with the goal of advancing high-priority objectives of the 2024 National Strategy for Suicide Prevention (National Strategy). 

The five Strategic Priorities that member organizations have committed to advance together provide the opportunity to activate high-priority areas of the 2024 National Strategy that leverage Executive Committee members’ personal, professional, and organizational and sector strengths. 

These five Strategic Priorities direct our focus:

• Progress, Accountability, and Data: Develop and launch a framework for tracking progress on National Strategy and Action Alliance accountability measures. This will include collaboration with partners to improve data quality and representation across groups to better inform responsive prevention efforts
• Research: Promote expansion in research and ensure future Action Alliance initiatives are grounded in science
• Crisis Care Continuum: Bolster momentum for improvements in response to behavioral health crises in and beyond the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline system
• Effective Suicide Prevention in Healthcare: Advance focused, effective solutions that scale within and across health systems
• Messaging and Communications: Develop, disseminate, and align the field around research-informed messages to spur change

Tracking progress is foundational to the Action Alliance’s impactful work. It will be applied throughout implementation of the Strategic Plan. 

With the release of the 2024 National Strategy for Suicide Prevention, the Action Alliance has the opportunity to collaborate across sectors to create a sustained and coordinated national effort to track implementation progress, to identify challenges encountered, and to assess the impact of implementation efforts. 

Previously, there were isolated efforts to track elements of the 2012 National Strategy. However, without a central coordinating presence to both advance the implementation of the strategy and to track its progress overall, the impact of the National Strategy was limited in its potential for reducing suicide in the United States. 

A nationally coordinated effort to track implementation and impact of the 2024 National Strategy across public and private sectors will provide accountability, facilitate exploration of areas of potential improvement, and generate the ability to articulate its impact. This effort will increase accountability for progress and align implementation efforts around common definitions of success.