History

The Construction Industry Alliance for Suicide Prevention was founded in 2016 to promote mental health wellness and to raise awareness about suicide prevention.

Learn about our journey—from raising awareness to building a nonprofit organization to create a zero suicide industry.

September 2019
CIASP launches independent website.

April 2019
CIASP holds its second strategic planning meeting in Washington DC along with a meeting of task forces and a meeting with the Department of Labor and OSHA to explore opportunities to promote suicide prevention through federal programs.

November 15, 2018
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention releases report with the construction and extraction industry named as being the most at-risk industry for suicide.

September 25, 2018
CIASP holds first strategic planning meeting in Washington DC.

August 3, 2018
CIASP becomes a nonprofit organization.

June 2018
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports a 30 percent increase in suicides in half of states since 1999—nearly 45,000 lives lost to suicide in 2016.

October 2016
Construction Financial Management Association (CFMA) forms the Construction Industry Alliance for Suicide Prevention.

July 2016
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study examines suicide risk by profession revealing “people who work in construction and extraction had the second-highest rate of suicide.”

June 2016
Construction Financial Management Association’s (CFMA) Annual Conference includes sessions on mental illness and suicide

April 2016
CFMA’s Valley of the Sun Chapter hosts first regional Suicide Prevention Summit

November/December 2015
CFMA publishes “Mental Illness & Suicide—Break the Silence & Create a Caring Culture” in CFMA Building Profits, written by Cal Beyer and Dr. Sally Spencer-Thomas

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