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    Frequently Asked Questions About Zero Suicide and CCBHCs

    The Zero Suicide FAQs for CCBHCs document provides suggested answers to some of the frequently asked questions about Zero Suicide and CCBHCs. For more FAQs see Zero Suicide FAQs.

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    Zero Suicide Work Plan for CCBHCs

    The Zero Suicide Work Plan for CCBHCs  is a comprehensive list of Zero Suicide implementation tasks. Implementation teams are prompted to think about when each task will be completed and identify who will manage it.

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    CCBHCs and Zero Suicide: A Crosswalk of Requirements

    CCBHCs and Zero Suicide: A Crosswalk of Requirements is a practical guide for aligning and integrating the SAMHSA requirements for CCBHCs with the Zero Suicide Framework.  

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    Zero Suicide: A Commitment to Saving Lives—Readiness PowerPoint for CCBHCs
    Zero Suicide: A Commitment to Saving Lives is a short, downloadable PowerPoint presentation introducing Zero Suicide tailored to CCBHCs.
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    Supporting Behavioral Health Providers: Creating Postvention Strategies for Healing After Losing a Client to Suicide

    The Supporting Behavioral Health Providers: Resilience and a Path Forward video series and fact sheet by the Suicide Prevention Resource Center features behavioral health professionals sharing their personal and professional experiences of losing a client to suicide.

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    The Foundations of Lived Experience

    The Foundations of Lived Experience, published by the Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC), highlights experts with firsthand, suicide-centered lived experience and explores how their voices have shaped and advanced the field of suicide prevention for more than 25 years.

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    Northeast Kingdom Human Services Board Presentation Example
    This Zero Suicide Board of Directors Presentation highlights Northeast Kingdom Human Services’ (NKHS) annual update to its Board, showcasing how the Zero Suicide framework is deeply woven into the organization’s strategic priorities.
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    Hope Network Trainings Overview and Expectations
    Hope Network’s Zero Suicide Initiative Trainings Overview and Expectations outlines essential suicide prevention training requirements for staff.
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    Burrell Behavioral Health Zero Suicide Policy
    This policy outlines Burrell Behavioral Health’s adoption of the Zero Suicide framework, detailing protocols for suicide risk screening, staff training, and system-wide prevention practices.
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    Correctional Officer Resilience: Promoting Life Skills Strategies Among Correctional Officers

    Correctional Officer Resilience:  Promoting Life Skills Strategies Among Correctional Officers is a report from the Suicide Prevention Resource Center designed to provide clinicians with a resilience-focused approach to supporting correctional officer (CO) wellbeing.

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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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