Messaging Work Group
The Action Alliance's Messaging Work Group (MWG) brings together influential communication leads from our national partners to develop coordinated and consistent messages about suicide prevention. The group is dedicated to ensuring that the suicide prevention field's messages:
- Are developed and delivered in a coordinated, consistent, and timely way
- Help promote hope and help-seeking (and are aligned with the Framework for Successful Messaging)
- Educate the public about available services, resources, and supports
The Action Alliance convenes the MWG as needed to respond to data releases, new research, and other events that would benefit from a coordinated response.
Past joint statements issued by this group include:
- Joint statement on 2019 mortality data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Joint statement to reporters covering mental health and suicide prevention in the wake of COVID-19
- Joint statement on 2018 mortality data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Joint statement on new data release on high-risk populations
- Joint statement on new study about nation's crisis services
- Joint statement on new study about role of entertainment industry
- Joint statement about suicide contagion
- Joint statement on new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Joint statement on new data from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
- Joint statement to reporters covering the death of Kate Spade
Organizational Members
- Active Minds
- American Association of Suicidology (AAS)
- American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP)
- American Psychological Association (APA)
- Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO)
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- Crisis Text Line
- Defense Suicide Prevention Office (DSPO)
- Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC)
- Entertainment Industries Council, Inc. (EIC)
- The JED Foundation
- JPA Health
- Mental Health America
- The Mental Health Coalition
- Mental Health Storytelling Coalition
- MTV Entertainment Studios at Paramount Global
- National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)
- National Association of Broadcasters (NAB)
- National Football League (NFL)
- National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
- Reingold
- Safe States Alliance
- Stop Soldier Suicide
- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
- Suicide Awareness of Voices of Education (SAVE)
- Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC)
- Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS)
- The Trevor Project
- U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)
- Vibrant Emotional Health
- White House Domestic Policy Council
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), through the Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC) grant, provides funding to Education Development Center (EDC) to operate and manage the Secretariat for the Action Alliance, including the work of the Messaging Work Group (MWG).
Johnson & Johnson has been providing funding to support the MWG Portal since 2022.
