This is a sub-organization of SCREENING FOR MENTAL HEALTH that heavily promotes and conducts mental health screening. It is described as a “school based suicide prevention education program.” Students view a short video followed by a guided discussion. This can also be completed in less than an hour and also fits well with the health curriculum.”[1] It has the same Board of Directors as Screening for Mental Health.
- On May 26 2006, Air force Col Joyce Adkins, a psychologist working at the Pentagon’s Health Affairs office, reported that several thousand military people had been screened with Signs of Suicide since it went online beginning of 2006.[2]
- Copies of tax returns for the group from 2001-2004 showing Eli Lilly, Pfizer, Solvay, Abbot Labs, Forest Labs, and Wyeth had paid $3,223,425 up to 2004.[3] For 2004 alone, Lilly gave it $600,000, Pfizer $125,000, Wyeth $100,000 and Forest Labs $153,000.[4] In total, prior to 2008, it had received nearly $5 million from pharmaceutical companies.[5]
- In 2006, the SoS program was introduced as a “self-assessment screening tool” provided free online.[6]
- It has also received funding from AstraZeneca, and GSK.[7]
[1] http://www.pathwaysonline.org/services/SuicidePrevention.htm.
[2] Evelyn Pringle, “Bush’s Mental Illness Screening Squad On the Move,” Scoop, 10 July 2006.
[3] http://www.signsofsuicide.org/tax_records.htm.
[4] Evelyn Pringle, “Bush’s Mental Illness Screening Squad On the Move,” Scoop, 10 July 2006.
[5] http://www.signsofsuicide.org/tax_records.htm.
[6] Evelyn Pringle, “Bush’s Mental Illness Screening Squad On the Move,” Scoop, 10 July 2006.