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  • Videos
    JASPR Health videos supporting youth experiencing suicidal crisis

    JASPR Health has created videos for parents, family members, and friends of youth experiencing suicidal crisis.

  • Readings
    Honoring Children, Mending the Circle: Cultural Adaptation of Trauma-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for American Indian and Alaska Native Children

    This article discusses Honoring Children, Mending the Circle, an American Indian and Alaska Native adaptation of trauma-focused cognitive-behavioral therapy. This adaptation blends AI/AN traditional teachings with cognitive-behavioral methods.

     

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    Treatment for Suicidal Ideation, Self-harm, and Suicide Attempts Among Youth Main page content

    This guide provides interventions to treat for suicidal ideation, self-harm, and suicide attempts among youth. It provides research on implementation and examples of the ways that these recommendations can be implemented.

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    Responding as a System: Zero Suicide at Nationwide Children's Hospital

    In this short video, Drs.

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    Screening Youth For Suicide Risk: Can it be done in a busy pediatric practice?

    As a pediatrician screening for suicide, It’s not about the ones you find positive for suicide, it’s about the ones you may miss. This podcast, featuring Dr.

  • Webinars
    Applying Zero Suicide in Pediatric Care Settings

    Suicide is the second leading cause of death among youth ages 10–24Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS) [online]. (June 2020).

  • Tools
    Seattle Children's Hospital Zero Suicide Initiative Pathways

    The Seattle Children's Hospital created a Zero Suicide Initiative Pathway for use with children and youth presenting for care to allow for standardized processes for suicide risk screening and assessment for triage to resources across the organization.  Included are versions for use in the

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    Critical Crossroads: Pediatric Mental Health Care in the Emergency Department

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    Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Clinical Pathway for Youth

    The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) created a Clinical Pathway for Children and Adolescents At Risk for Suicide in Outpatient Specialty Care as a guide for staff on how to identify and respond to suicide risk.

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    Prevention in Practice: Care Transitions at New Hampshire Hospital

    This success story details how the National Alliance on Mental Illness New Hampshire (NAMI NH) and New Hampshire Hospital established a care transitions program for youth inpatients.

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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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