Alliances against depression - A community based approach to target depression and to prevent suicidal behaviour

► Community based 4-level interventions are a promising way to prevent suicidal behaviour. ► A reduction of 24% of suicidal acts could be shown for a model project in 2001. ► The approach is already implemented in many regions across Europe (>100). ► The 4-level intervention concept is optimized within the FP7-project OSPI-Europe. ► EAAD (www.EAAD.net) is a platform to expand these interventions to other regions.