Suicide Prevention by Peers Offering Recovery Tactics (SUPPORT) for US Veterans With Serious Mental Illness: Community Engagement Approach

Samantha A Chalker   ^{1, 2 *} , PhD ;   Jesus Serafez   ^{1 *} , BA ;   Yuki Imai   ^{1 *} , BA ;   Jeffrey Stinchcomb   ^{1 *} , BFA ;   Estefany Mendez   ^{1 *} ;   Colin A Depp   ^{1, 2 *} , PhD ;   Elizabeth W Twamley   ^{1, 2 *} , PhD ;   Karen L Fortuna   ^{3 *} , LICSW, PhD ;   Marianne Goodman   ^{4, 5 *} , MD ;   Matthew Chinman   ^{6, 7 *} , PhD

¹ Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, CA, United States

² Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA, United States

³ Department of Psychiatry, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH, United States

⁴ James J. Peters Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Bronx, NY, United States

⁵ Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States

⁶ Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Healthcare System, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

⁷ RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA, United States

*all authors contributed equally