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  • Tools
    Suicide and Serious Mental Illness: An Overview of Considerations, Assessment, and Safety Planning
    This resource provides an overview of the considerations and suicide prevention measures at the intersection of suicide and serious mental illness.
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    Safety Planning for Youth Suicide Prevention
    This one-hour, self-paced online course about safety planning is designed for licensed health and behavioral health professionals and students in clinical training programs.
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    Caring for Adult Patients With Suicide Risk: A Consensus Guide for Emergency Departments
    This quick guide assists Emergency Department (ED) health care professionals with decisions about the care and discharge of patients with suicide risk with a focus on improving patient outcomes after discharge.
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    ED-SAFE Patient Secondary Screener (ESS-6)
    This secondary screening tool can help providers decide whether an individual who has screened positive on the primary Patient Safety Screener (PSS-3) requires additional care processes.
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    Adult Outpatient Brief Suicide Safety Assessment Guide (BSSA)
    This toolkit includes the Brief Suicide Safety Assessment Guide (BSSA) which incorporates suggestions on what questions to ask and examples of how to respond to develop a fuller understanding of an individual’s suicide risk.
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    Guidelines for Integrated Suicide-Related Crisis and Follow-Up Care in Emergency Departments and Other Acute Settings
    These guidelines can be used by those working in acute settings to inform service planning, better equip and support staff to work effectively with those at risk of suicide, and guide empathic, compassionate responses to people experiencing suicidal crisis.
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    Intimate Partner Violence and Suicide: Intersections in Context and Practice
    This webinar provides an overview of the intersection between intimate partner violence (IPV) and suicide in the United States.
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    Suicide Prevention and Health Care Accreditation: A Panel Discussion with the Joint Commission
    This live panel discussion will focus on how to meet the National Patient Safety Goal (NPSG) on Suicide Prevention in Healthcare Settings (NPSG 15.01.01).
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    Suicide Prevention Toolkit for Primary Care Practices
    This toolkit contains tools, information, and resources to implement state-of-the-art suicide prevention practices and overcome barriers to treating suicidal patients in the primary care setting.
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    Screening for Suicide in the Emergency Department: A Critical Opportunity
    In this short video, Dr. Ed Boudreaux highlights the importance of clear protocols for guiding front-line emergency room staff in suicide screening and detection.

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Education Development Center, the Suicide Prevention Resource Center, and the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention are able to make this web site available thanks to support from Universal Health Services (UHS), the Zero Suicide Institute at EDC, and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) (grant 1 U79 SM0559945).

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