Stream Strategy Modeling Resources

Summary:

Status: This is idea-stage

We are seeking to understand what could happen if prevention funding were available to maximize it's positive impact in a community. How big could the impact be of prioritizing resource allocation to maximize community health?

To that end, we will assess models of integrated systems of health care that model resource allocation strategies and expected outcomes.

To frame that, we need to identify the costs, and the potential effects, of successful suicide prevention, then find models that describe those effects in terms of funding.

The effects of prevention effect individuals and communities in the short and long term.

Effects of suicide prevention:

An "Upstream" event is a colloquial term frequently found in discussions of health care - upstream events refer to events that happen *before* a major health event occurs. Prevention occurs upstream. Emergency care occurs downstream, *after* a major health event occurs. (In the military the term for upstream is "left of boom").

Suicide, a loss-of-life event, also has profound effects on the community in which it occurs.

[Study Citation] found that 40% of students are graduating without the ability to seek help from an adult.

I addition to direct short-term effects on a community, such as, in a school, effects on student attendance, discipline issues, and graduation rates for students , and performance and satisfaction of all community members, there are longer term effect.

Considering long-term effects, we can ask: What would happen if an entire generation can problem solve and:

• learn the skills required to build strong bonds and seek help?
• experience a healthy community?
• see how communities can grow and become more healthy, and be involved?
• learn to take responsibility for their problems as they seek help?
• learn to help others?

Lots to do.