A new employer care kit to address suicide prevention

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Effective mental health support needs to go beyond counseling and therapy apps and include safeguards and training for when employees may be at risk of a crisis.   

More than 720,000 people die due to suicide every year, according to the World Health Organization. However, research from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation found that over the last three decades, suicide mortality rates have decreased by around 40%, indicating that mental health strategies are working. In an effort to help move that progress forward, online therapy platform Rula launched their Care Kit, a valuable addition to organizations’ wellness initiatives

Paola Peralta
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Paola Peralta is an Associate Editor at Employee Benefit News and has been with the team for five years. She is a proud UCF journalism graduate who got her start through a Dow Jones News Fund … Read full bio


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