This guide is intended to provide an overview of the main issues that can arise when clinical providers and staff experience the death of a client by suicide.
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Tools
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Tools
A diagram of Centerstone of Tennessee's Suicide Prevention Pathway (care pathway) that shows how individuals enter and exit a care pathway.
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ToolsThis tool provides a series of questions to guide the cultural adaptation of gatekeeper training programs and to improve the community ownership, cultural fit, and effectiveness of the training.
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The Utah Department of Human Services Substance Abuse and Mental Health and Utah Zero Suicide Learning Collaborative include best practice strategies and suggested protocols for safe care transitions.
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ToolsThe Suicide Safety Policy ties together the need for consistent, uniform assessment of safety/risk and clear unified parameters for assisting callers/chatters and texters at highest risk.
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ToolsThis 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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ToolsThis 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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ToolsThis 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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ToolsThese 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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ToolsThis Tribal Suicide Prevention Needs Assessment (TNA) was conducted to help SPRC better understand tribal suicide prevention needs and track changes in suicide prevention capacity.