Arizona
Arizona suicide prevention plans and initiatives
Arizona’s suicide prevention efforts have been led by a Suicide Prevention Program Manager within the Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS) since 2022. ADHS maintains a suicide prevention webpage, published the updated statewide Suicide Prevention Action Plan (SPAP) 2024-2026, and maintains real-time suicide death data and encounter data dashboards that provide robust surveillance of lives lost to suicide as well as ideation and attempts throughout the state. The Office of Injury and Violence Prevention within the Division of Public Health Prevention Services at ADHS provides professional and administrative services to state and local suicide mortality review teams.
AFSP-Arizona served on the SPAP’s Partnership Plan Steering Committee as a stakeholder representative to provide direct feedback into the state planning process.
ADHS also supports state prevention efforts by serving as a focal point for internal and external coalitions and partnerships. The Arizona Suicide Prevention Coalition (AZSPC), comprised of a diverse group of mental health leaders, educators, healthcare professionals, loss survivors and attempt survivors, and concerned citizens, holds regular virtual meetings that are open to the public for participation. AZSPC also hosts the annual Arizona Suicide Prevention HOPE Conference, bringing together those dedicated to preventing suicide to share ideas and learn from leading experts in the field.
Arizona laws
Key:
- Required by law
- Encouraged by law
- No law in place
Crisis lines and 988 implementation
- Addresses 988 infrastructure and provides for telecom user fee
- Addresses 988 infrastructure but does not include telecom user fee
- 988 law limited to creating an exploratory commission, advisory committee, or task force
Mental health parity
- Public health plans (e.g., Medicaid) regularly submit parity compliance analyses to state regulators
- Private health plans (individual and group) regularly submit parity compliance analyses to state regulators
K – 12 school suicide prevention
- Inclusion of the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline and/or other crisis line(s) on student ID cards
- Student allowances for excused mental health absences
- School personnel must report student suicide risk to a parent and/or guardian
- Suicide prevention and/or mental health training for certain school personnel, annual
- Suicide prevention and/or mental health training for certain school personnel, not annual
- Suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention policies/programming
- Student education on suicide prevention
- Student education on mental health
Health professional training in suicide assessment, treatment and management
- Mental health professionals receive regular training
- Mental health professionals receive one time training
- Medical/surgical professionals receive regular training
- Medical/surgical professionals receive one time training
Conversion therapy bans
- Prohibits licensed/board certified mental health providers from engaging in conversion therapy with minors under 18 years of age
- Prohibits licensed/board certified mental health providers from engaging in conversion therapy with vulnerable adults
- Prohibits use of state funds for any purpose related to conversion therapy (e.g., conducting, making a referral for, or extending health benefits coverage for)
University and college campus suicide prevention
- Inclusion of the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline and/or other crisis line(s) on student ID cards
- Students receive information on available mental health and/or suicide prevention services and/or resources
- Adoption of suicide prevention/awareness policy or program
Firearms
- Process for extreme risk protection orders (ERPOs)
- State voluntary do not sell list