I. AAS Members feel connected and supported.

• Engage in community development to ensure AAS is viewed as a “big tent” where all perspectives and roles in suicide prevention are valued.
• Build a robust membership of individuals and organizational members who feel connected to AAS and its mission.
• Increase both the number of conference attendees and the percentage of those attendees who are AAS members.
• Increase the national visibility of AAS as a resource to partner entities and the public.

II. Research informs suicide prevention practice, program development, and policy change.

• Plan and execute a robust annual conference that connects research to practice while uniting the field.
• Increase utilization of the Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior Journal by members to inform practice.
• Educate the public through impactful social media messaging.
• Develop a content‑rich, members‑only newsletter to advance the mission of connecting research to practice.
• Engage in public dialogue in a manner that educates and elevates best‑practice suicide prevention approaches and policies.
• Ensure the website serves as a valuable resource, as evidenced by increased public engagement.

III. Professionals are equipped with suicide-specific knowledge and skills to prevent, intervene, and provide meaningful postvention responses.

• Increase the number of Crisis Specialists certified by AAS.
• Enhance the Training Catalog.
• Launch the Psychological Autopsy Certification.
• Increase attendance in Death Investigation Training.
• Partner with population‑specific entities to develop identity‑based resources.

IV. Communities utilize population-specific, research-informed, culturally inclusive suicide-prevention practices.

• Create and staff “Communities of Practice” to identify and elevate impactful approaches.
• Address the needs of county and state‑level suicide prevention entities to reduce suicide in their service areas.
• Advance state legislation requiring the use of psychological autopsies/suicide death investigations and the annual release of statewide suicide data.
• Develop partnership agreements with population-specific suicide prevention and crisis entities.

V. Crisis Call centers provide high-quality professional interventions.

• Adhere to established quality standards and ensure timely accreditation and re‑accreditation processes.
• Increase the number of call centers seeking accreditation.
• Review accreditation standards by January 2027 to ensure they promote best practices.
• Advance state legislation to mandate crisis call center accreditation with public reporting.

VI. The voices of lived experience, including suicide loss, are valued within the AAS community.

• Share knowledge of impactful responses, such as Loss Teams.
• Elevate the voices of lived experience across all AAS platforms to ensure that both scientific research and the personal/community impact of suicide are represented.
• Ensure robust programming at the Healing After Suicide Loss Summit (HASLS).