Tracking Youth Self-Inflicted Injury Hospitalizations to Target High-Risk Communities, Leverage Resources, and Unify Stakeholder Efforts: Illinois Department of Public Health

PEER REVIEWED Figure. Working to expand youth suicide prevention activities, the Illinois Department of Public Health’s Youth Suicide Prevention Project developed these maps to 1) illustrate the burden of self-inflicted injury among youth aged 15 to 18, 2) display the locations of schools receiving Gatekeeper trainings, and 3) to identify high-risk counties for self-inflicted injury and future suicides. Using inpatient and outpatient hospitalization counts and rates (Map A), counties were identified as high-risk for youth self-inflicted injury (Map B). Used together, these maps will allow stakeholders to expand the reach of Gatekeeper trainings by increasing high school recruitment in high-risk counties with no current participation.