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Evidence
Find out what researchers and implementers are saying about how Zero Suicide can transform systems for safer care.
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Movement
Movement
Join the Zero Suicide movement, a call for safer suicide care in health and behavioral health powered by a network of implementors and innovators.
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Toolkit
Toolkit
The Zero Suicide Toolkit is a detailed guide to Zero Suicide implementation and strategy.
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Resources
Resources
A multi-source collection of readings, tools, videos, and webinars to help you understand and implement Zero Suicide.
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Tools
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Tools
From the Suicide Prevention Resource Center, Safety Planning for Youth Suicide Prevention is a free, self-paced, online training designed or health, behavioral health, and mental health clinicians.
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Tools
Developed by MindWise Innovations, Signs of Suicide is a school-based curriculum (for grades 6-12) that teaches students to recognize signs of depression and suicide, and how to seek help for themselves or their peers.
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Tools
From DBT in Schools, the DBT Skills-A is a 30 lesson curriculum designed to teach adolescents Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills including mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness.
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Readings
Abstract
Jasperson, R. A., Sullivan, E., & Goldstein, E. V. (2023). Employee attitudes toward suicide prevention and Counseling on Access to Lethal Means: Initial findings from an academic medical center implementing the Zero Suicide framework. Frontiers in Public Health, 11. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1268300
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Readings
Abstract
Background: Zero Suicide has been widely promoted as a comprehensive suicide prevention approach in healthcare systems, yet less is known about the barriers to implementing this approach in the emergency department.
Allison, M.K., Waliski, A., Haynes, T.F., Marshall, S.A. (2022) Formative evaluation of Zero Suicide in the emergency department: Identifying strategies to overcome implementation barriers. Evaluation and Program Planning, 92, 102050. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2022.102050.
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Videos
The 2023 Zero Suicide Institute Global Forum, held in partnership with Behavioral Health Tech (BHT2023), was an integrated online/virtual and in-person event that brought together top healthcare leaders, behavioral health experts, di
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Tools
This tool from the Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC) provides a series of questions to guide the cultural adaptation of gatekeeper training programs and to improve the community ownership, cultural fit, and effectiveness of the training.
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Tools
The Thinking Through Appropriate Staffing Trainings activity can help you understand and determine appropriate kinds of trainings for different staff roles (e.g., clinical staff, non-clinical staff).
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Tools
This report was commissioned by ASPE to better understand how organizations choose to implement and sustain a Zero Suicide initiative.