Oklahoma
Oklahoma suicide prevention plans and initiatives
Oklahoma’s Suicide Prevention Act, designates the state’s Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services (ODMHSAS) as the lead agency for suicide prevention activities and establishes the Oklahoma Suicide Prevention Council to work in cooperation with the Department (43A Okl. St. §§ 12-101 to 12-105). Enacted in 2001 as the Youth Suicide Prevention Act, the law was amended in 2008 to expand the Council’s focus to suicide prevention across the lifespan. In 2015, the Council issued the 2015-2020 Oklahoma Strategy for Suicide Prevention and has since overseen its ongoing development and supported communities in implementing population-specific prevention efforts. activities to address the specific needs of their population(s). While no longer mandated by state law as of January 1, 2020, the Council continues to operate. Most recently, ODMHSAS and the Council released Preventing Mental, Emotional, & Behavioral Disorders: Oklahoma Strategic Plan and identified suicide as a key priority area.
The Oklahoma State Department of Education, with assistance from ODMHSAS, maintains a school-based mental health website with resources for suicide prevention in local schools and communities. The Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH) released the 2020 Oklahoma Youth and Young Adult Suicide Report based on data from the Oklahoma Violent Death Reporting System and Oklahoma Youth Risk Behavior Survey 2023. Since 2004, ODMHSAS has conducted the Oklahoma Prevention Needs Assessment (OPNA) Survey, a biennial survey of the 6th, 8th, 10th, and 12th grades, with an OPNA Survey dashboard. ODMHSAS also maintains the 988 Oklahoma Crisis Response Performance Dashboard.
Oklahoma 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
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