Subdivision 1. Suicide prevention plan. The commissioner of health shall refine, coordinate, and implement the state's suicide prevention plan using an evidence-based, public health approach for a life span plan focused on awareness and prevention, in collaboration with the commissioner of human services; the commissioner of public safety; the commissioner of education; the chancellor of Minnesota State Colleges and Universities; the president of the University of Minnesota; and appropriate agencies, organizations, and institutions in the community.
Subd. 2. Community-based programs. To the extent funds are appropriated for the purposes of this subdivision, the commissioner shall establish a grant program to fund:
(1) community-based programs to provide education, outreach, and advocacy services to populations who may be at risk for suicide;
(2) community-based programs that educate community helpers and gatekeepers, such as family members, spiritual leaders, coaches, and business owners, employers, and coworkers on how to prevent suicide by encouraging help-seeking behaviors;
(3) community-based programs that educate populations at risk for suicide and community helpers and gatekeepers that must include information on the symptoms of depression and other psychiatric illnesses, the warning signs of suicide, skills for preventing suicides, and making or seeking effective referrals to intervention and community resources;
(4) community-based programs to provide evidence-based suicide prevention and intervention education to school staff, parents, and students in grades kindergarten through 12, and for students attending Minnesota colleges and universities;
(5) community-based programs to provide evidence-based suicide prevention and intervention to public school nurses, teachers, administrators, coaches, school social workers, peace officers, firefighters, emergency medical technicians, advanced emergency medical technicians, paramedics, primary care providers, and others; and
(6) community-based, evidence-based postvention training to mental health professionals and practitioners in order to provide technical assistance to communities after a suicide and to prevent suicide clusters and contagion.
Subd. 3. Workplace and professional education. (a) The commissioner shall promote the use of employee assistance and workplace programs to support employees with depression and other psychiatric illness and substance use disorder, and refer them to services. In promoting these programs, the commissioner shall collaborate with employer and professional associations, unions, and safety councils.
(b) The commissioner shall provide training and technical assistance to local public health and other community-based professionals to provide for integrated implementation of best practices for preventing suicides.
Subd. 4. Collection and reporting suicide data. (a) The commissioner shall coordinate with federal, regional, local, and other state agencies to collect, analyze, and annually issue a public report on Minnesota-specific data on suicide and suicidal behaviors.
(b) The commissioner, in consultation with stakeholders, shall submit a detailed plan identifying proposed methods to improve the timeliness, usefulness, and quality of suicide-related data so that the data can help identify the scope of the suicide problem, identify high-risk groups, set priority prevention activities, and monitor the effects of suicide prevention programs. The report shall include how to improve external cause of injury coding, progress on implementing the Minnesota Violent Death Reporting System, how to obtain and release data in a timely manner, and how to support the use of psychological autopsies.
(c) The written report must be provided to the chairs and ranking minority members of the house of representatives and senate finance and policy divisions and committees with jurisdiction over health and human services by February 1, 2016.
Subd. 5. Periodic evaluations; biennial reports. To the extent funds are appropriated for the purposes of this subdivision, the commissioner shall conduct periodic evaluations of the impact of and outcomes from implementation of the state's suicide prevention plan and each of the activities specified in this section. By July 1, 2002, and July 1 of each even-numbered year thereafter, the commissioner shall report the results of these evaluations to the chairs of the policy and finance committees in the house of representatives and senate with jurisdiction over health and human services issues.
1Sp2001 c 9 art 1 s 45; 2002 c 379 art 1 s 113; 2003 c 130 s 12; 1Sp2005 c 4 art 6 s 36,37; 2009 c 159 s 11,12; 2015 c 71 art 2 s 6,7; 2022 c 98 art 4 s 51
Structure Minnesota Statutes
Chapter 145 — Public Health Provisions
Section 145.075 — Injunctive Relief Brought By Commissioner.
Section 145.131 — Findings And Purpose.
Section 145.135 — Uniform Determination Of Death Act.
Section 145.161 — Dissection; When Permitted.
Section 145.1621 — Disposition Of Aborted Or Miscarried Fetuses.
Section 145.1622 — Policy For Notification Of Disposition Options.
Section 145.267 — Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Prevention Grants.
Section 145.30 — Superintendent Of Hospitals To Transfer Records.
Section 145.31 — Copies To Be Used As Evidence.
Section 145.32 — Old Records May Be Destroyed.
Section 145.33 — Construction.
Section 145.36 — Exposing Person With Contagious Disease.
Section 145.365 — Trafficking In Skunks.
Section 145.37 — Manufacture Of Certain Products Which May Be Injurious.
Section 145.41 — Blood Donations, Age Of Donor.
Section 145.411 — Regulation Of Abortions; Definitions.
Section 145.412 — Criminal Acts.
Section 145.413 — Recording And Reporting Health Data.
Section 145.4131 — Recording And Reporting Abortion Data.
Section 145.4132 — Recording And Reporting Abortion Complication Data.
Section 145.4133 — Reporting Out-of-state Abortions.
Section 145.4134 — Commissioner's Public Report.
Section 145.4135 — Enforcement; Penalties.
Section 145.4136 — Severability.
Section 145.414 — Abortion Not Mandatory.
Section 145.415 — Live Fetus After Abortion, Treatment.
Section 145.416 — Licensing And Regulation Of Facilities.
Section 145.42 — Abortions; Nonliability For Refusal To Perform.
Section 145.421 — Human Conceptus, Living; Definitions.
Section 145.422 — Experimentation, Research Or Sale.
Section 145.423 — Abortion; Live Births.
Section 145.4235 — Positive Abortion Alternatives.
Section 145.424 — Prohibition Of Tort Actions.
Section 145.4241 — Definitions.
Section 145.4242 — Informed Consent.
Section 145.4243 — Printed Information.
Section 145.4244 — Internet Website.
Section 145.4245 — Procedure In Case Of Medical Emergency.
Section 145.4246 — Reporting Requirements.
Section 145.4248 — Severability.
Section 145.4249 — Supreme Court Jurisdiction.
Section 145.425 — Pay Toilets In Public Places; Prohibitions; Penalty.
Section 145.471 — Prenatal Trisomy Diagnosis Awareness Act.
Section 145.4711 — Definitions.
Section 145.4712 — Emergency Care To Sexual Assault Victims.
Section 145.4713 — Complaints.
Section 145.4715 — Reporting Prevalence Of Sexual Violence.
Section 145.4716 — Safe Harbor For Sexually Exploited Youth.
Section 145.4717 — Regional Navigator Grants.
Section 145.4718 — Program Evaluation.
Section 145.56 — Suicide Prevention.
Section 145.62 — Providing Information To Review Organization; Immunity.
Section 145.63 — Review Organization; Advisory Capacity; Immunity.
Section 145.64 — Confidentiality Of Records Of Review Organization.
Section 145.65 — Guidelines Not Admissible In Evidence.
Section 145.66 — Penalty For Violation.
Section 145.67 — Protection Of Patient.
Section 145.671 — Pediatric Vaccine Administration.
Section 145.672 — Healthy Children Through Immunization.
Section 145.682 — Certification Of Expert Review; Affidavit.
Section 145.698 — Confinement Of Drug Dependent Person.
Section 145.711 — Definitions.
Section 145.712 — Requirements For Contact Lenses Prescriptions.
Section 145.713 — Optometrist And Physician Practices.
Section 145.7131 — Exception To Eyeglass Prescription Expiration.
Section 145.714 — Enforcement.
Section 145.851 — Definitions.
Section 145.852 — Identifying Devices For Persons Having Certain Conditions.
Section 145.853 — Duty Of Law Enforcement Officer.
Section 145.854 — Duty Of Medical Practitioners.
Section 145.855 — Duty Of Others.
Section 145.856 — Falsifying Identification Or Misrepresenting Condition; Penalty.
Section 145.857 — Other Duties.
Section 145.867 — Persons Requiring Special Diets.
Section 145.87 — Home Visiting For Pregnant Women And Families With Young Children.
Section 145.8811 — Maternal And Child Health Advisory Task Force.
Section 145.882 — Maternal And Child Health Block Grant Distribution.
Section 145.8821 — Accountability.
Section 145.883 — Definitions.
Section 145.892 — Definitions.
Section 145.893 — Nutritional Supplement Program.
Section 145.894 — State Commissioner Of Health; Duties, Responsibilities.
Section 145.895 — Department Of Human Services.
Section 145.896 — Program Not A Substitute Or Replacement.
Section 145.897 — Food Benefits.
Section 145.898 — Sudden Infant Death.
Section 145.899 — Wic Food Benefits For Organics.
Section 145.901 — Maternal Death Studies.
Section 145.902 — Give Life A Chance; Safe Place For Newborns Duties; Immunity.
Section 145.905 — Location For Breastfeeding.
Section 145.906 — Postpartum Depression Education And Information.
Section 145.907 — Maternal Depression; Definition.
Section 145.924 — Aids Prevention Grants.
Section 145.925 — Family Planning Grants.
Section 145.9255 — Minnesota Education Now And Babies Later; Health.
Section 145.9261 — Abstinence Education Grant Program.
Section 145.9265 — Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Effects; Drug-exposed Infant.
Section 145.9266 — Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Campaign And Education.
Section 145.9268 — Community Clinic Grants.
Section 145.9269 — Federally Qualified Health Centers.
Section 145.928 — Eliminating Health Disparities.
Section 145.929 — Health Care Grants For The Uninsured.
Section 145.93 — Minnesota Poison Information Centers; Establishment.
Section 145.94 — Exposure To Hazardous Substance.
Section 145.945 — Certain Sales Of Cleaning Products Prohibited.
Section 145.951 — Implementation Plan; Statewide Program For Families.
Section 145.952 — Definitions.
Section 145.953 — Program Structure.
Section 145.954 — Standards For Program.
Section 145.955 — Duties Of Local Organization.
Section 145.956 — Training And Recruitment Of Volunteers.
Section 145.957 — Eligibility.
Section 145.958 — Youth Violence Prevention.