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    Youth Safety Plan
    Developed for youth, this safety plan includes age-appropriate language.
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    Safety Planning for Youth Suicide Prevention
    Safety Planning for Youth Suicide Prevention is a free, self-paced, online training designed or health, behavioral health, and mental health clinicians.
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    Children, Teens and Suicide Loss
    This resource for families of children impacted by suicide loss includes tips on how to explain a death by suicide to youth, practical strategies to meet their needs, and more.
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    National Guidelines for Child and Youth Behavioral Health Crisis Care
    This resource outlines a framework for states and communities to consider as they create or expand their safer suicide care services for youth and families.
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    Youth Suicide Prevention and Intervention Best Practices and Policy Implications
    This is a comprehensive resource addressing youth suicide prevention from a public health perspective.
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    Preventing Veteran Suicide: 15 Essential Recommendations
    Blog post by David Shulkin, M.D. about the most effective veteran suicide prevention practices based on his own experiences.
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    Employee attitudes toward suicide prevention and Counseling on Access to Lethal Means: initial findings from an academic medical center implementing the Zero Suicide framework
    This evaluation provides important insights from the workforce of a large academic medical center implementing a Zero Suicide program.
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    Identify & Address Suicide Risk Using Epic Tools
    These tools help healthcare organizations intervene in suicide attempts with the right patients at the right time.
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    Zero Suicide Institute Global Forum
    This event brought together top healthcare leaders, experts and policymakers from around the world to revolutionize access to behavioral healthcare.
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    Meeting Accreditation Standards Episode 3: Safety Planning and Mitigating Risk
    In this video, Zero Suicide Institute experts offer guidance and observations on how to set up safety planning to mitigate risk.

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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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