Preventing Youth Suicide National Collaborative

Suicide is the second leading cause of death among young people 10-14 years old and third leading cause of death for those between 15-24. 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 several child-centered associations to declare a national emergency in 2021, followed by the formation of the Preventing Youth Suicide National Collaborative in 2022. The collaboration began as a joint effort of the Children’s Hospital Association, the Cardinal Health Foundation and the Zero Suicide Institute to award grants to children's hospitals and health systems to better care for children at risk for suicide.

The 39 hospitals that make up the collaborative use a systematic approach to identify and assess children at risk of suicide. Member hospitals of the Children’s Hospital Association have implemented changes in suicide care, including screening patients, collecting data, training staff and building 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 Hospital Colorado
10. Children's Hospital of Orange County
11. Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
12. Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital
13. Children's Mercy Kansas City
14. Children's Minnesota
15. Children's Nebraska
16. Children's Wisconsin
17. Cincinnati Children's
18. Cohen Children's Medical Center
19. Connecticut Children's Medical Center
20. Dayton Children's Hospital
21. Doernbecher Children's Hospital
22. Le Bonheur Children's Hospital
23. Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford
24. Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
25. Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt
26. MUSC Shawn Jenkins Children's Hospital
27. Nationwide Children's Hospital
28. Nicklaus Children's Hospital
29. Penn State Children’s Hospital
30. Phoenix Children's
31. Primary Children’s Hospital
32. ProMedica Russel J. Ebeid Children's Hospital
33. Seattle Children's
34. St. Louis Children's Hospital
35. UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital
36. UH Rainbow Babies and Children's
37. Valley Children's Healthcare
38. Wolfson Children's Hospital
39. Yale New Haven Children's Hospital