Focus Groups

A key aspect of the Florida LEADS Project involves developing a suicide prevention social awareness campaign to inform and encourage adults at risk for suicide to seek help. To ensure our messages and the content we create is relevant, useful, and culturally sensitive for adults at risk of suicide in the state of Florida, we need to conduct focus groups with input from our target audiences.

For this study, we are looking to recruit adults (over age 18) living in Florida who either:

• have a lived mental health/suicide-related experience,
• are a mental health professional, or
• are a system/agency administrator who works with individuals with lived experiences. 
• At this time we are specifically looking for individuals who meet the above criteria and either identify as or serve/work with individuals in the following groups:
  • Active Military/Reserve/Veterans
  • LGBTQ+
  • Adults with Disabilities
  • Survivors of Abuse/Violence
  • Minoritized Community Members (i.e. American Indians/Alaska Natives, Asian American, Black/African American, Hispanic/LatinX, Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander, or multi-racial)
  • Individuals in Recovery from Substance Use

We plan to conduct future focus groups in Fall 2023. If eligible, we will reach out to you when focus groups begin.

We appreciate your interest in participating in this study!

Note: We expect that you will be in this research study for no more than 3 hours. Average time to complete the focus group/interview session is 1 to 2 hours and 15-minutes for each follow-up survey (a total of up to 4 follow-up surveys). The initial follow-up survey is completed after social awareness messages and resources have been developed. Subsequent surveys will be completed for purposes of refinement/feedback following the addition of new messages or graphics to previous designs.You will be compensated with a $25 Amazon electronic gift card after completion of the focus group and a $5 Amazon electronic gift card after completion of the brief follow-up survey.