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    Zero Suicide Workforce Survey Summary Example

    Here is an example from The Mental Health Center of Greater Manchester of how to share back with staff results from your Workforce Survey.

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    Example Policy for Safety Precautions for Behavioral Health Units

    This HSHS Sacred Heart Hospital policy includes safety precautions, behavior monitoring, and safety rounding for behavioral health units. 

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    Example Policy related to safety precautions

    An example of a policy from Hospital Sisters Health Centers titled "Safety Precautions: Suicide and Self Harm" for Non-Behavioral Health Units. It includes a diagram of a care pathway connecting safety precautions to levels of risk. 

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    Zero Suicide Data Dashboard User Manual

    The Zero Suicide Data Dashboard User Manual is a resource that individuals can use to walk through the process of signing up for the Data Dashboard. 

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    Suicide and Self Harm Policy

    Policy for screening outside of behavioral health setting

     

    Given to EDC staff by:Toni Simonson, PhD, FACHE
    Executive Director – Behavioral Health
    HSHS & Prevea Health
    Office 715-717-7522
    Cell 715-225-5426

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    Zero Suicide Leadership Letters
    The Zero Suicide Leadership Letters resource provides sample text for letters to and from healthcare leadership.
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    Crosswalk of Zero Suicide and The Joint Commission

    This crosswalk will help organizations  accredited by The Joint Commission (TJC) understand how Zero Suicide supports TJC suicide prevention requirements. 

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    Preparing to Heal - Alaska Postvention Guide
    This guide provides information communities can use to prepare an action plan in case of a suicide
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    A Framework for Safe, Reliable, and Effective Care
    This framework brings together concepts that are critical to achieving effective care while centering the safety of patients.
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    Barriers and Opportunities for Suicide Prevention Among Correctional Officers: An Issue Brief for Clinicians
    This issue brief from the Suicide Prevention Resource Center describes the disproportionate impact of suicide among correctional officers.

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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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