Guiding Principles
- We believe in educating families and youth on suicide prevention, behavioral health, and lethal means storage safety
- We believe in supporting child-serving professionals and organizations with consistent and unified messaging, education, resources and support for their work in injury prevention and suicide prevention
- We are guided by science, research and evidence-based approaches and interventions
- We have no political position on firearm possession – our focus is on safe storage of lethal means, which includes firearms, but also medications and other items that can lead to intentional or unintentional death
Coalition Membership
The SIS Coalition is a proud member of the Statewide Prevention Coalition Association.
Membership in the SIS Coalition is inclusive to all individuals, agencies, and organizations that support the mission of the coalition. Members should join the coalition in a commitment to:
- Keep the mission and aim of the coalition top-of-mind when doing engaging with the community
- Be willing to help move the mission of the coalition forward through occasional interactions with policy makers
- Receive and, at times, help to disseminate relevant information to organizational members, employees and/or the population they serve through conversations, listservs, websites, social media accounts, and newsletters
- Keep the coalition informed of their organization’s resources and activities related to the coalition’s mission
Contact Brooke Powell at bpowell@ohioaap.org to learn more or join the coalition and Kristen Fluitt at kfluitt@ohioaap.org for more information on our SIS Quality Improvement program.
