In this video, David Covington discusses the need to move suicide prevention to a central focus in behavioral health care.
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Videos
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VideosIn this video, Becky Stoll and Virna Little describe their respective strategies for involving leadership in a Zero Suicide initiative.
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Videos
Mike Hogan, Co-chair of the Zero Suicide Advisory Group, talks about applying the core concepts of the patient safety movement to prevent suicide.
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ToolsThis is a PDF preview of the questions in the Zero Suicide Organizational Self-Study.
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Tools
Wondering how to get started with Zero Suicide in your organization? This resource outlines 10 steps to getting started.
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ReadingsThis is a two-page, printable PDF that describes the Zero Suicide approach and provides a brief history of the initiative.
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ToolsThis letter can be used and adapted to request that staff complete the Zero Suicide Workforce Survey.
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Readings
The New York State Office of Mental Health reviewed suicides occurring within the public mental health system over several years. This report aims to put New York State on a path toward systematically preventing suicide for people in care.
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Readings
Hampton , T. (2010). Depression care effort brings dramatic drop in large HMO population’s suicide rate. JAMA, 303(19), 1903–1905.
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Readings
Chassin , M. R., & Loeb, J. M. (2013). High‐reliability health care: Getting there from here. Milbank Quarterly, 91(3), 459–490.