The Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention (CASP)
The core functions of CASP include:
- the facilitation of information sharing on intervention and researchabout suicide awareness and prevention,
- creating and sharing resources
- creating services and/or research networks and directories.
The CASP website has a section on suicide prevention in schools.
CASP also contributes to policy development at the federal, provincial/territorial levels as well as to research an services in Canada.
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