As an additional resource, the following suggested reading lists are available:

Achieving the Promise: Transforming Mental Health Care in America (113 pages – PDF format)
President George W. Bush created the New Freedom Commission on Mental Health on April 29, 2002 to address the problems in the current mental health service delivery system that allow Americans to fall through the system’s cracks. The President directed the members of the Commission to study the problems and gaps in the mental health system and make concrete recommendations for immediate improvements that the Federal government, State governments, local agencies, as well as public and private health care providers, can implement. This report is the final recommendation.

Bibliography: Suicide
A list of resources including: The Savage God, Step Back From The Exit: 45 Reasons To Say No To Suicide, New Lease On Life, and others.

TSPN Survivor’s Reading List
A list of references developed by a committee of the Northeast Tennessee TSPN Region

Seduction Of Suicide – Understanding and Recovering From Addiction to Suicide
(ISBN: 1-4033-1001-7) by Kevin Taylor, M.D. (Pen Name)
Available at 1stbooks Library. Phone orders: 888-280-7715

Surviving Suicide: My Journey to the Light Within
ISBN: 1-882943-18-X (PCN: 2003104433) by Mary A. Scovel
Published by: Coastal Villages Press, 2614 Boundary St., Beaufort, SC 29906 (843-525-0075), Fax: 843-525-0000

The Burn Journals by Brent Runyon (ISBN-13: 978-1400096428)
Vintage, 2005. Suitable for grades 8 and up. Nominated for a Georgia Peach Award for Young Readers.

Crossing 13: Memoir of a Father’s Suicide by Carrie Stark Hugus (ISBN: 978-0-9815938-0-7)
Affirm, 2008. Reviewed by the American Assoication of Suicidology’s publications committee.