The Welsh Assembly Government pledged to put together a strategy earlier this year after a spate of young people committed suicide in Bridgend.
Almost three-quarters of the people who commit suicide in Wales are unknown to mental health services in the year before they die. Young men remain the group most at risk.
Health minister Edwina Hart launched the strategy, called Talk To Me. She said: "We need to change the culture around mental health issues so that the signs can be identified, and support provided, at an earlier stage in order to reduce the rate of suicide and the numbers of those who self-harm."
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