Missouri
Missouri suicide prevention plans and initiatives
Missouri’s suicide prevention activities are housed within the state’s Department of Mental Health, Division of Behavioral Health (DMH/DBH), which has led several suicide prevention initiatives supported by federal Zero Suicide grants beginning in 2014. In 2018, the Missouri Suicide Prevention Network (MSPN), a coalition of organizations and stakeholders across the state, including AFSP-Missouri, was established to lead statewide suicide prevention efforts and coordinate implementation of the state plan. In 2020, the MSPN received funding from the Missouri Foundation for Health (MFH) for two full-time positions dedicated to statewide suicide prevention.
Most recently, MSPN released the 2024-2028 Missouri Suicide Prevention Plan (MSPP), in partnership with the Missouri Behavioral Health Council and DMH. The new MSPP is a 5-year plan, extended from the previous 3-year timeframe, focused on three priority areas: (1) raise public awareness about suicide risk and prevention; (2) support community-led efforts to promote suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention care; (3) and help diverse groups and organizations create suicide prevention programs, systems, and policies.
Missouri 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