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Hear from experts working to reduce firearm injury
A Guide for Parents- Mental Health and Preventing Unauthorized Access to Firearms
A parents' guide on how to approach mental health care and suicide prevention with children detailing the warning signs, appropriate responses, and safety steps for addressing lethal means access.
Evaluation of a Hospital-based Youth Violence Intervention
This study examines an intervention, a violence-prevention consultation, for hospital-based youth victims of nondomestic violence.
DBT Firearm Lethal Means Safety Counseling Teaching Notes
Provider manual of multi-session dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) treatment intervention for clinicians working with clients at risk for suicide by firearms
DBT Firearm Lethal Means Safety Counseling Handouts and Worksheets
Handouts and worksheets of multi-session dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) treatment intervention for clinicians working with clients at risk for suicide by firearms
Staying Out of the Way: Perceptions of Digital Non-Emergency Medical Transportation Services, Barriers, and Access to Care Among Young Black Male Survivors of Firearm Violence
This study looks at addressing transportation as a secondary barrier faced by low-income young Black male survivors of violent injury trying to access CBT and mentoring services through HVIPs.
SAFER brief community intervention: a primary suicide prevention strategy to improve firearm and medication storage behaviour
This study examined an intervention called Signpost, Assess, Facts, Emotion, Recommend (SAFER) designed to motivate changes in behavior to securely store firearms and medications to prevent future suicide. It determined the feasability to implement the intervention in community-based settings such as gun shows, and aiming at high risk individuals for suicide such as veterans and middle-aged men.
Gun-Related and Other Violent Crime After Involuntary Commitment and Short-Term Emergency Holds
This article examines the long-term risk of firearm-related and other violent crime in a large sample of adults with serious mental illness in Florida while also exploring policy implications.
Increases in Actual Health Care Costs and Claims After Firearm Injury
This before-after study explored the burden of firearm injury on the healthcare system.
Older Firearm Owners and Advance Planning: Results of a National Survey
A national survey describing the frequency of advance planning to transfer firearms to someone else by older firearm owners if they cannot handle them safely in the future, or pass away.
The Relation Between State Gun Laws and the Incidence and Severity of Mass Public Shootings in the United States, 1976–2018
This study examined state firearm laws and their separate relationship with the likelihood of a mass public shooting and with the number of fatalities when a mass shooting occurs.
End Family Fire
Resources and recommendations on how to prevent a family fire- a shooting involving an improperly stored or misused gun in the home that results in injury or death.
Safe Firearm Storage: A Call for Research Informed by Firearm Stakeholders
A call to action for needed research informed by firearm stakeholders to help clinicians make acceptable, adoptable recommendations of ways to safely store firearms and reduce risk of injury and mortality.