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This guide lists key elements for sustainability for health and behavioral health care programs implementing Zero Suicide in Indian Country.

Universal Health Services, Inc., Behavioral Health Division has shared a detailed suicide care management plan template for inpatient hospital settings.

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.

In 2001, Henry Ford Behavioral Health was the first to pioneer and conceptualize “zero suicides” as a goal, and develop a care pathway to assess and modify suicide risk for patients with depression.

The ZEST toolkit is intended to provide guidance and support to community behavioral health centers in Texas to implement the zero suicide framework. The toolkit outlines goals for each core component and provides tools and resources to guide implementation activities.

From beyond blue in Australia, the sample booklet Guiding their way back: a resource for people who are supporting someone after a suicide attempt is intended for providers to give to people who are supporting a loved one after a suicide attempt.

These policies and procedures from Centerstone of Tennessee were developed to ensure weapons potentially suicidal and/or homicidal clients wish to relinquish are secured in a safe and appropriate manner.