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    The Zero Suicide Toolkit is a detailed guide to Zero Suicide implementation and strategy.

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    Zero Suicide Workforce Survey Questions
    The Zero Suicide Workforce Survey is a key implementation tool that can be used to assess staff knowledge, practices, and confidence related to working with individuals at risk of suicide.
  • Readings
    Breakthrough Series: Outcomes and Recommendations
    This report details lessons learned about how to best implement the Zero Suicide approach under the direction of a state mental health or public health office.
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    Zero Suicide Data Elements Worksheet
    This worksheet is intended to assist health and behavioral health care organizations in developing a data-driven, quality improvement approach to suicide care.
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    PDF Preview: General Zero Suicide Organizational Self-Study
    This is a PDF preview of the questions in the Zero Suicide Organizational Self-Study.
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    Getting Started with Zero Suicide

    Wondering how to get started with Zero Suicide in your organization? This resource outlines 10 steps to getting started.

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    Suicide Care Training Options
    This resource lists suicide care training programs appropriate for clinical and non-clinical staff at health and behavioral health care agencies.
  • Readings
    What is Zero Suicide?
    This is a two-page, printable PDF that describes the Zero Suicide approach and provides a brief history of the initiative.
  • Tools
    Sample Letter to Staff about Zero Suicide Workforce Survey
    This letter can be used and adapted to request that staff complete the Zero Suicide Workforce Survey.
  • Tools
    Sample Letter to Staff Announcing Adoption of Zero Suicide Approach

    This letter can be used and adapted to announce the commitment to improve the care provided to patients who are struggling with suicide and the adoption of the Zero Suicide approach.

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    Centerstone Education Sheet: Adding a Pathway to Your Treatment Plan

    Centerstone of Tennessee developed this education sheet to explain to individuals when they are being placed on the pathway to care, or suicide care management plan, and what that means.

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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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