Gold 7: Saving Lives in the Heartland: Nebraska's Suicide Prevention Legislation and the Launch of Firearm Safe Storage Partnerships
LB 414 & Regional Suicide Mortality Review (SMR) Committees
Overview of the new legislation, committee framework, and statewide coordination goals. Explore the deep dive of Suicide Mortality Review session: how teams identify preventable risk factors, drive data-informed interventions, and utilize these insights of deaths in their own community to create unique opportunities for upstream intervention.
Safe Temporary Firearm Storage
Introduction to the safe storage interactive map, its functionality, and voluntary storage options, and why having the option to store firearms outside of one’s home across Nebraska is a beneficial service beyond mental health, but for any variety of reasons.
