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SUPRA, Austrian Suicide Prevention Practice is the Austrian national suicide prevention program that includes all levels of prevention – universal, selective and indicated prevention. SUPRA’s main objectives include supporting people at risk, limiting the availability of suicide funds, raising suicide awareness and developing media support for suicide prevention, integrating suicide prevention programs into other health promotion programs, and supporting suicide research.
SUPRA consists of several elements, and the working groups of the Member States will decide on which elements to implement, in accordance with the results of the situational analysis and needs assessment, and their own priorities.
This example of good practice is based on 6 pillars, i.e., it consists of 6 components:
- Support and treatment of persons at high risk, in accordance with their needs;
- Coordinated and organized suicide prevention;
- Restriction of access to means of suicide with the aim of making access as difficult as possible;
- Ensuring that awareness and knowledge of suicidality and about coping with psychosocial crises are widespread among the general population;
- Integration of suicide prevention into existing health promotion activities and addiction and violence prevention measures;
- Ensuring the quality of suicide prevention based on scientific expertise and evidence.
Country Profile
The Country Profile contains the key facts and national priorities of suicide and suicide prevention:
SUPRA Handbook
The SUPRA Handbook is an experience-based guidance document for implementing a national suicide prevention program. It summarises the experience gathered in Austria between 2012 and 2022 with implementing the national suicide prevention programme SUPRA.
Its aim is to provide guidance to other countries, for developing or scaling up a suicide prevention strategy at national/regional level. It introduces the WHO-framework (based on various WHO-reports) and illustrates how it served as a key reference and provided crucial guidance for Austria. Lessons learned in Austria are shared, based not only on the experience of implementing SUPRA, but also on the experience of implementing other national strategies (related to topics other than suicide prevention).