Global Preventing Youth Suicide Collaborative

Every day around the world, 140 young people between the ages of 5 and 24 die by suicide. Suicide was the second leading cause of death among 10-to-14-year-olds and 15-to 24-year-olds in the United States in 2024. What’s more, in 2024, suicide self-injury made up 34% of visits to children’s hospitals’ emergency rooms, according to the Pediatric Health Information System®.

Alarming statistics like these led the Children's Hospital Association (CHA), the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) to declare a national emergency in youth and adolescent mental health in 2021.

In 2022, CHA partnered with the Cardinal Health Foundation and the Zero Suicide Institute to create the Preventing Youth Suicide National Collaborative. The collaboration began as a joint effort to award grants to children's hospitals and health systems to better care for children at risk for suicide.

In 2026, that effort evolved into the Preventing Youth Suicide Global Collaborative, a network of children's hospitals in the U.S., Canada, and the United Kingdom dedicated to implementing a standard of care designed to identify and support youth at risk for suicide.

The entities in the collaborative use a systematic approach to screen, assess, treat, and follow children at risk of suicide. Members are also working to collect data, train staff, and build cultures that recognize the importance of this work.

Collaborative members:

1. AdventHealth for Children
2. Advocate Children's Hospital
3. Akron Children's Hospital
4. Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
5. Arkansas Children's Hospital
6. Atrium Health Levine Children's Hospital
7. Boston Children's Hospital
8. C.S. Mott Children's Hospital
9. Children's Healthcare Colorado
10. Children's Hospital Colorado
11. Children's Hospital of Orange County
12. Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
13. Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital
14. Children's Mercy Kansas City
15. Children's Minnesota
16. Children's Nebraska
17. Children's Wisconsin
18. Cincinnati Children's
19. Cohen Children's Medical Center
20. Connecticut Children's Medical Center
21. Dayton Children's Hospital
22. Doernbecher Children's Hospital
23. Great Ormond Street Hospital
24. Le Bonheur Children's Hospital
25. Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford
26. Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
27. Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt
28. MUSC Shawn Jenkins Children's Hospital
29. Nationwide Children's Hospital
30. Nicklaus Children's Hospital
31. Penn State Children’s Hospital
32. Phoenix Children's
33. Primary Children’s Hospital
34. ProMedica Russel J. Ebeid Children's Hospital
35. Seattle Children's
36. St. Louis Children's Hospital
37. UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital
38. UH Rainbow Babies and Children's
39. Valley Children's Healthcare
40. Wolfson Children's Hospital
41. Yale New Haven Children's Hospital