Social-Emotional Learning and Youth Suicide PreventionYouth suicide is one of the leading causes of premature death for youth, and it is on the rise across the country. Practitioners and policymakers alike are looking to address it. In those efforts, we are seeing social-emotional learning (SEL) show up. We reviewed programs under five strategies of evidence-based in-school youth suicide prevention and note that components of SEL consistently shows up in those programs. We then discuss known risk factors for youth suicide and how SEL can directly address and mitigate them. We recommend that policymakers continue to expand support for youth suicide prevention efforts, including to offer funding for comprehensive prevention that includes SEL with additional funding to evaluate its efficacy. Download the full policy paper (PDF)Download the one pager (PDF)