Recommendations include the advice to review current violence and suicide intervention programs for “cross-over” possibilities and to include suicide assessments as part of effectiveness trials on violence-related interventions. Potentially promising programs that address suicide or youth violence prevention are reviewed, which point toward the efficacy of targeting general coping skills and family functioning processes during intervention work. However, while some suicide and violence prevention programming have showed at least modest effectiveness in reducing suicidal thoughts and violent behavior among youth, very few attempts have been made to bridge suicide and interpersonal violence prevention into one intervention strategy. The current barriers to bridging these two intervention approaches are discussed and include the limited understanding of the mechanisms linking suicidal and violent behavior. References