The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) is the leading national not-for-profit organization exclusively dedicated to understanding and preventing suicide through research and education, and to reaching out to people with mood disorders and those impacted by suicide.

Description:
AFSP's activities include:
-Supporting research projects that help further the understanding and treatment of depression and the prevention of suicide.
-Providing information and education about depression and suicide.
-Promoting professional education for the recognition and treatment of depressed and suicidal individuals.
-Publicizing the magnitude of the problems of depression and suicide and the need for research, prevention, and treatment.
-Helping survivors of suicide loss to heal, providing them with the information they seek and empowering them to become active in suicide prevention.

History:
AFSP, a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, was founded in 1987 by a group of leading experts on suicide and survivors of suicide. They believed that only a combined effort would make it possible to fund the research necessary for progress in the prevention of suicide. Before AFSP was formed, there was no national not-for-profit organization dedicated to funding research, education, and treatment programs necessary to prevent suicide. Over the past 20 years, we have changed that.

Contact person: Dale Camhi, Regional Director, (516) 869-4215, (email)
Office fax number: (516) 569-1501

Address:

120 Wall Street, 22nd Floor New York, NY 10005 (See a map)