The Defense Suicide Prevention Office serves as the DoD oversight authority for the strategic development, implementation, centralization, standardization, communication, and evaluation of DoD suicide and risk reduction programs, policies, and surveillance activities to reduce the impact of suicide on Service members and their families. Its vision is to enable total force fitness through suicide prevention and resilience programs and policies to ensure Service members and their families overcome risk factors and are mission ready from entry on duty to retirement or separation. DSPO's five strategic goals are: provide policy guidance that fosters a command climate that emphasizes and encourages help-seeking behavior, reduces stigma, and builds resiliency; promote Total Force Fitness elements by identifying effective suicide prevention training strategies; facilitate access to quality care and supportive services to strengthen resilience and readiness and assist survivors and families; establish, monitor, and analyze the results of research and surveillance activities to identify risk factors and inform effective programs and policies; and foster cooperation to develop suicide prevention information and resources among stakeholders from federal agencies; public, private, and international entities; and institutions of higher education.

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