Contact after Leaving Care

Yakama Nation Behavioral Health Services prepared these caring contact cards for their clients and provided them as examples for other Zero Suicide implementers. They demonstrate how caring contacts can send a message of thoughtful support.

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

The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline created Follow-Up Matters, a website dedicated to promoting follow-up care as an impactful and cost-effective method of suicide prevention. The site includes statistics, guidance, and resources for follow-up care.

Craig Kramer is Mental Health Ambassador and Chair, Global Campaign for Mental Health, in Neuroscience External Affairs at Janssen R&D, a Johnson & Johnson company and is an Executive Committee member of the National A

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).

Roadmap to Resilience by Dr.

The current need for social distancing and isolation related to the COVID-19 pandemic has necessitated a quick expansion of the provision of mental health services via remote platforms.

To help close these gaps that put individuals at increased risk for suicide after a psychiatric hospitalization, the Action Alliance (Care Transitions Advisory Group) developed 

Abstract: Providing follow-up calls to patients after they leave the hospital is not only good clinical practice, but it can help with the bottom line.