Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

Facebook adds artificial intelligence to its suicide prevention tools

By Heather Mack 02:52 pm March 1, 2017

After building up the human component of their network of suicide prevention organizations, Facebook is now bringing in the machines: The social media company announced they have updated their suicide prevention tools with artificial intelligence to identification of those at risk as well as improve the reporting process and speed up response time. On a company blog post from Vanessa Callison-...

HHS launches suicide prevention, training tool app for providers

By Aditi Pai 05:02 am March 12, 2015

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, a branch of the US Department of Health and Human Services, has launched a new training tool, an app called Suicide Safe, for behavioral health and primary care providers. Suicide Safe is based on the suicide assessment five-step evaluation and triage (SAFE-T) practice guidelines. Providers can use the app to learn the five steps in ...