Oregon
Oregon suicide prevention plans and initiatives
Oregon’s suicide prevention efforts are led by the Oregon Health Authority (OHA) Public Health Division’s Injury and Violence Prevention Section and are a focus area of OHA’s 2020-2024 State Health Improvement Plan. Oregon law created a Youth Suicide Intervention and Prevention Coordinator within OHA to develop a statewide plan every 5 years (ORS §§ 418.731 & 418.733) and an Advisory Committee to support plan development and annually report to the legislature (ORS § 418.726). The most recent 2026-2030 Youth Suicide Intervention and Prevention Plan (YSIPP) builds on years of prior suicide prevention work, incorporates lessons from the previous five years, and outlines a forward-looking vision to promote youth health and wellness in Oregon. Additionally, in 2023, Oregon implemented two bills, H.B.3426 and H.B. 2757, to provide additional funding towards the 988 initiatives and require 988 centers to receive specific training regarding certain at-risk groups.
The most recent YSIPP integrates the Oregon Suicide Prevention Framework with a focus on suicide prevention across the lifespan. The OHA suicide prevention team now includes five coordinators working in four scopes – youth suicide, adult suicide, Zero Suicide initiatives in healthcare, and public health suicide prevention. The expanded team uses the framework's pillars and goals to guide their work and develop targeted strategies within each scope of work. In 2023, OHA released the 2023-2027 Adult Suicide Intervention and Prevention Plan (ASIPP), in partnership with AFSP-Oregon, to address disparate rates of suicide in historically underserved populations; see the 2024 YSIPP Annual Report and the 2024 ASIPP First Year Progress Report.
Oregon 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