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Lethal Means

The group builds consensus around a national public-private sector approach to advance Goal 6 of the National Strategy for Suicide Prevention: promote efforts to reduce access to lethal means of suicide among individuals with identified suicide risk.

Formed in 2017, the Lethal Means Stakeholder Group:

  • Serves as a national platform for promoting innovative cross-sector efforts
  • Acts as an incubator for new ideas around how to strengthen cross-sector collaboration
  • Advances key national initiatives that address lethal means through a public-private sector approach

Co-Leads

  • Jack Benson, Partner, Reingold (Private Sector)
  • Keita Franklin, PhD, Chief Clinical Officer, PsychHub (Private Sector)
  • Jerry Reed, PhD, Senior Vice President for Practice Leadership, Education Development Center (Private Sector)

Members

  • Joseph Bartozzi, President, National Shooting Sports Foundation
  • Ashley Boles, Counsel, CropLife America
  • Bill Brassard, Senior Director of Communications, National Shooting Sports Foundation
  • Stephen Kaminski, JD, President and CEO, National Propane Gas Association
  • Eamon M. Lawlor, Director, Strategic Accounts, Johnson & Johnson Health Care Systems, Inc.
  • Doreen Marshall, PhD, Vice President of Programs, American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
  • Richard McKeon, PhD, Chief, Suicide Prevention Branch, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
  • Matt Miller, PhD, Director for Suicide Prevention, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
  • Stephen O'Connor, PhD, Program Officer, Treatment and Preventive Intervention Research Branch, Division of Services and Intervention Research, National Institute of Mental Health
  • Jane Pearson, PhD, Chair, Suicide Research Consortium, Division of Services and Intervention Research, National Institute of Mental Health
  • Stephanie Rogers, Senior Vice President of Communications & Marketing, American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
  • Adam Walsh, Director of Research and Program Evaluation, Defense Suicide Prevention Office, U.S. Department of Defense - DoD Liaison

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