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Corbin J. Standley

Senior Director, Impact Communication and Continuous Improvement, American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
Chapter Member: Michigan SSN
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About Corbin

Dr. Standley is a community psychologist and researcher who has worked with community-based organizations across the country to turn data and research into action to create change. His work focuses on public health and community-level approaches to suicide prevention through capacity building, equitable systems change, and policy change. Dr. Standley’s research agenda broadly examines how social and systemic contexts impact suicidality and the role of social-ecological factors in prevention. More specifically, his work examines how oppression and marginalization, intersectionality, and social support shape youth suicide risk and prevention.

In the News

Interviewed in "Suicide Prevention Month, the Importance of Mental Health," WLNS 6 News, September 20, 2020.
Interviewed in "Break Down the Walls No. 2," Punk Rock Pariah Podcast, April 15, 2020.
Interviewed in "The Sci-Files – 11/17/19 – Corbin Standley – Youth Suicide Prevention," The Sci-Files, WDBM, November 17, 2019.
Quoted by Kara Berg in "Suicides among People 65 and Older, Under 25 Rise in Lansing Area," Lansing State Journal, September 27, 2019.
Quoted by Mikenzie Frost in "Push for Suicide Prevention Commission Continues: "It Could Save Lives"," WWMT, June 20, 2019.
Quoted by Mike Anderson in "WSU Grant to Support Suicide Prevention," KSL, December 20, 2018.
Guest on Open Line, May 3, 2018.

Publications

"Intersectionality, Social Support, and Youth Suicidality: A Socioecological Approach to Prevention" (with Pennie Foster-Fishman). Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior 51, no. 2 (2021): 203-211.

Finds that youth with intersecting marginalized identities report greater rates of suicidality, and finds that family, school, and community social support can be a protective factor against suicide among youth.

"How I Used Community Psychology Values to Foster State-Level Change" The Community Psychologist (2021).

Discusses using community psychology values to foster state-level policy change through recent examples of research-informed legislation and youth engagement in advocacy in Michigan.

"Expanding Our Paradigms: Intersectional and Socioecological Approaches to Suicide Prevention" Death Studies (2020).

Discusses social identity and its relation to suicide risk. Reviews the literature on these topics. Highlights importance of paying attention to the unique experiences of youth through the study of intersectionality and using socioecological models in our research moving forward.

"Out of the Darkness: Prevention and Advocacy as Healing" in Still With Us: Voices of Sibling Suicide Loss Survivors, edited by Lena M.Q. Heilmann, (DBI Publishers, 2019).

Discusses how advocacy and prevention work can aid in healing after a suicide loss.

"Social Support & Youth Suicide: An Intersectional and Socioecological Approach", Tri-County Lifesavers, August 2019.

Finds youth with multiple marginalized identities are at increased risk for suicide. Finds social support serves as a protective factor for suicide among youth.

"Tri-County Youth Suicide: Preliminary Data Report", Tri-County Lifesavers, May 2018.

Finds youth with minority identities are at increased risk for suicide.