Resources and recommendations for helping your healthcare organization get ready for Zero Suicide implementation
Guidance on Readiness
A System-Wide Approach to Rolling out Zero Suicide
Readiness is a vital part of the implementation of Zero Suicide. Everyone is touched by the organizational changes that Zero Suicide brings, so it is essential that we build that readiness or buy-in through communication with staff at all levels. Zero Suicide is a continuous quality improvement, which means that readiness building is also an ongoing process.
Resources
We have created a Readiness-Building Guide that has helpful information about readiness, using communication to build readiness, and some ready-to-go resources for you to use when you are communicating with people in your organization about Zero Suicide.
Follow the links below to access the resources.
The Zero Suicide Readiness-Building Guide offers support for building readiness for Zero Suicide at your healthcare organization.
"Zero Suicide: A Commitment to Saving Lives" is a short, downloadable PowerPoint presentation introducing Zero Suicide.
The Zero Suicide Communications Planner is a downloadable Excel spreadsheet intended to help your Zero Suicide implementation team plan a communications strategy for your organization.
This collection of Zero Suicide Mini-Articles offers messages intended to help Zero Suicide implementing teams communicate about Zero Suicide.
The Zero Suicide FAQs document provides suggested answers to some of the frequently asked questions about Zero Suicide.