Our Priorities

Action Alliance Priority: Progress, Accountability, and Data 

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

Without a central coordinating presence to both advance and track the implementation of the 2012 National Strategy, tracking progress and impact was limited in the potential for reducing suicide in the United States. Now, 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.

Partnership across the public and private sectors is essential to identify and set quantifiable core progress indicators for high-impact areas of the National Strategy. Additionally, collaboration with federal partners will ensure the successes resulting from the first-ever Federal Action Plan are included in progress measures.

It is only through accessible and actionable data that the field can have the greatest potential to create change, reduce negative outcomes for communities, and expedite progress. The Action Alliance will collaborate with partners to improve data quality and representation across groups that have been historically marginalized.  

Check back for more information on how the Action Alliance will develop and launch a framework for tracking progress on the National Strategy, as well as Action Alliance accountability measures, through our Progress, Accountability, and Data Strategic Priority.

The Action Alliance Priority of Progress, Accountability, and Data supports the following elements of the 2024 National Strategy :

• Strategic Direction 3: Surveillance, Quality Improvement, and Research
  • Goal 10: Improve the quality, timeliness, scope, usefulness, and accessibility of data needed for suicide-related surveillance, research, evaluation, and quality improvement.
    • Objective 10.5: Evaluate the impact of the National Strategy for Suicide Prevention on core indicators of Strategy progress and the effects on reducing suicidal thoughts, attempts, and deaths.
• Strategic Direction 4: Health Equity in Suicide Prevention
  • Goal 12: Embed health equity into all comprehensive suicide prevention activities.
  • Goal 15: Improve and expand effective suicide prevention programs for populations disproportionately impacted by suicide across the life span through improved data, research, and evaluation.