The Connecticut Suicide Advisory Board (CTSAB) was established January 2012 through the merger of the 1989 legislatively-mandated CT Youth Suicide Advisory Board under the CT Department of Children and Families (DCF), and the CT Department of Public Health’s Interagency Suicide Prevention Network to create one state-level Suicide Advisory Board to address suicide across the lifespan.
The CTSAB is chaired by the CT Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (DMHAS) and the CT Department of Children and Families (DCF). It is the single state-level advisory board in Connecticut that addresses suicide prevention, intervention and response across the lifespan per revised legislation (PA 22-58; CGS Chapter 319, 17a-52).
Our Mission
The CTSAB is a network of diverse advocates, educators and leaders concerned with addressing the problem of suicide with a focus on prevention, intervention, and health and wellness promotion.
Our Vision
The CTSAB seeks to eliminate suicide by instilling hope across the lifespan.
Our Membership
The CTSAB is a diverse, collaborative network of over 600 people and 200 agencies representing state and local agencies, profit and non-profits, community and faith-based organizations, hospitals, military, schools, higher education, towns, private citizens, students, survivors, individuals with lived experience, and advocates.
If you are interested in joining the CTSAB and listserv, please visit:
The CTSAB Board
- Amplify, Inc.
- Brian Dagle Foundation
- Charter Oak Family Center, LLC
- Child Health and Development Institute
- CHR
- Connecticut Children’s
- Connecticut Department of Public Health
- Connecticut Department of Transportation
- Connecticut State Colleges and Universities
- Connecticut State Department of Education
- Cooperative Educational Services (CES)
- Correctional Healthcare Quality Improvement Solutions
- Judicial Branch CSSD
- Coventry Police Department
- Connecticut Alliance to Benefit Law Enforcement (CABLE)
- The Spector Criminal Justice Training Network
- CT Center for School Safety and Crisis Preparation
- CT National Guard
- Department of Children and Families
- DMHAS
- Jordan Porco Foundation
- Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation
- National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Connecticut
- National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF)
- Second Thoughts Connecticut
- State of CT Department of Social Services
- Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC)
- UConn Health
- Western CT Coalition (Regional Behavioral Health Action Organization for DMHAS Region 5)