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  • Tools
    Example Policy for Safety Precautions for Behavioral Health Units

    This HSHS Sacred Heart Hospital policy includes safety precautions, behavior monitoring, and safety rounding for behavioral health units. 

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    CALM for Pediatric Providers: Counseling on Access to Lethal Means to Prevent Youth Suicide
    This course offers guidance to pediatricians and other pediatric health care providers to support families in reducing youths' access to suicide methods found in the home.
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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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    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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    Suicide: Blueprint for Youth Suicide Prevention
    This resource supports health professionals in identifying strategies and key partnerships to support youth at risk for suicide.
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    Suicide Risk Assessment: Reducing Liability and Improving Outcomes
    This presentation helps practitioners and others understand suicide from a risk management perspective.
  • Webinars
    Digital Mental Health Interventions for Suicide Prevention among Young Adults
    This presentation reviews the safety, acceptability, and emerging efficacy and effectiveness of existing digital mental health interventions for suicidal thoughts and behaviors.
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    Zero Suicide Community Implementation Toolkit
    St. Joseph's Healthcare London and Niagara Region Public Health collaboratively created a toolkit for community organizations to use to enhance suicide prevention work based on the Zero Suicide Framework. 
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    Gun Shop Project
    These Means Matter materials show firearm retailers and range owners how they can help prevent suicide.
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    Treating Suicidal Patients During COVID-19
    SPRC presents a video series with expert advice on treating patients at risk of suicide during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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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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