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Announcements

    Published Online:February 08, 2023https://doi.org/10.1027/0227-5910/a000901

    AAS23: American Association of Suicidology Annual Conference is taking place April 19--22, 2023, in Portland, OR, USA. For more information go to https://suicidology.org/aas23/

    The National Suicide Prevention Conference held by Suicide Prevention Australia is taking place May 1–4, 2023, in Canberra, Australia. For more information go to https://www.suicidepreventionaust.org/our-events#national-conference

    The 32nd World Congress of the International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP) is taking place September 19–22, 2023, in Piran, Slovenia. For more information go to https://www.iasp.info/piran2023/ Abstract submissions are now open: https://www.iasp.info/piran2023/abstract-submission/

    The 20th European Symposium on Suicide and Suicidal Behaviour will take place in Rome, Italy, August 27–30, 2024. Further information will be provided early 2023.

    Partnerships for Life

    Over 700,000 people lose their life to suicide every year. Reducing the global suicide mortality rate by one third by 2030 is both a target and indicator in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and in the World Health Organization's (WHO's) Mental Health Action Plan 2013–2030. The development of National Suicide Prevention Strategies has been identified as a proven systematic, evidence-based response to preventing suicide that combines both community-based approaches and government policy. To date, an estimated 40 countries are known to have developed a national suicide prevention strategy, and in many other countries there are regional programs or less comprehensive suicide prevention projects and activities.

    Partnerships for Life networks are active in each of the six WHO regions, identifying contacts in over 60% of countries, in the context of a global five-year program that takes into account the stage of suicide prevention strategy development in each country. The initiative is led by a steering group chaired by Prof. Stephen Platt.

    For more information, please email [email protected] or visit www.iasp.info/partnershipsforlife