Garrett Lee Smith Campus Suicide Prevention - Mississippi State University will implement Bulldogs RISE (Resilience, Intervention, Screening, and Engagement), a four-year campus-wide suicide prevention initiative serving all 23,563 students, predominantly ages 18–25, in Starkville, Mississippi. The project will identify students at risk of suicide, connect them to care, and strengthen prevention, crisis-response, and lethal means safety capacity, with emphasis on military-connected students, veterinary students, and students with co-occurring substance use. Strategies include an annually updated needs assessment; voluntary campus-wide screening with warm referral and 14-day follow-up by a Student Care Coordinator; stakeholder collaboration; an integrated crisis and referral network with 988 promotion, crisis response and postvention plans, and provider agreements; coordinated prevention supports; evidence-based Alliance Project, CAMS, and Project Safe Guard trainings; awareness campaigns; and voluntary lethal means safety programming. Annually, Bulldogs RISE will screen 500+ students, refer 100+ with documented follow-up contact attempts for all referred students, connect 75+ to services, train 400+, reach 12,000+ with awareness messaging, and support 15 stipended peer educators. Over four years, the project will screen 2,000+ unique students, refer 400+, connect 300+ to services, and train 1,600+.
