LPC SPC Strategic Planning
LPC Suicide Prevention Collaborative has taken on many different roles and forms since its original creation in 2017. Entering 2024, many partners and coalition members remained passionate about the work, but were uncertain of the specific aim of LPC SPC. In the beginning of 2025, LPC SPC partnered with The Collective Impact Forum to learn more about community-based, multi-sector, sustainable change. From March 2025-September 2025, LPC SPC got to work— refining strategy to ensure clear, measurable goals.
Language Guide
Result: what we are constantly working towards
Indicators: how do we know we are progressing towards our results
Factor: Anything that supports or impedes our results
Strategy: how we move our factors towards our results
Focused populations: What populations or communities do we ensure our strategies are effectively reaching
Ensuring Success
Over several months of strategic refinement, LPC SPC wanted to ensure that the work being done was wanted and needed by our community without being duplicative of other initiatives. Additionally, it was crucial to ensure work being proposed met the capacity of LPC SPC. To reach this, the following considerations were made:
what strategies would have the most impact?
What strategies does LPC SPC have the most influence?
What work is already being done in our community?
What would LPC SPC need to make these strategies a success?
Do we have the right voices to champion these strategies?
Can these strategies be measured?
Measurability
To ensure LPC SPC is seeing progress in working towards our results, it is crucial to ensure all of our work is measurable. In creating workplans, the workgroups identify baseline and targets for metrics that fall within three different categories:
How Much? What is the direct reach of the work we are doing?
How Well? How are community attitudes, norms, and behaviors shifting as a result of our work?
What difference? How is our work contributing to increased mental wellbeing and decreased suicidality in La Plata County
Focused Populations
LPC SPC works to ensure we are preventing suicide for all individuals in La Plata County. To do so, communities most impacted by suicidality must be identified through data and community input. These communities may be disproportionately impacted by suicide deaths, attempts, ideation, and even stigma.
By intentionally gearing strategies towards these identified populations, we are working towards closing the largest gaps. In doing so, the entire community will benefit, seeing increased mental wellbeing and decreased suicidality.
LPC SPC Chose its current focused populations based on state and local data as well as community input. Additionally, current buy-in and trust were also identified through the LPC SPC’s composition and capacity. Focused populations are subject to change as group dynamics and data change as well.
Focused populations addressed through LPC SPC’s strategies include:
Spanish speaking communities
Youth
2SLGBTQIA+
Recovery (from substance use) community
Trade industry
Rural communities
First Responders
