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  • Readings
    A Framework for Safe, Reliable, and Effective Care
    This framework brings together concepts that are critical to achieving effective care while centering the safety of patients.
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    John Hopkins Caring for the Caregivers: The RISE Program
    The RISE Program guides hospitals to set up peer-responder programs that deliver “psychological first aid and emotional support” to health care professionals following difficult events.
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    AMA's Getting Rid of Stupid Stuff
    This toolkit will help you identify and eliminate the “stupid stuff” that adds unnecessary burden and contributes to clinician burnout.
  • Webinars
    Zero Suicide: Taking a Systems Approach to Suicide Prevention in Health Care
    This webinar provides an overview of the Zero Suicide Framework and its core elements.
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    Zero Suicide Data Dashboard
    Track your specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and timely goals with the Zero Suicide Data Dashboard.
  • Webinars
    Research, Practice, and Data Informed Investigations of Child and Youth Suicide: A Science to Service and Service to Science Approach
    This is a recording of both days of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) hybrid workshop to understand the challenges of investigating child and youth deaths.
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    Addressing Burnout in the Behavioral Health Workforce through Organizational Strategies
    This guide highlights organization-level interventions to prevent and reduce burnout among behavioral health workers.
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    A Manager’s Guide to Suicide Postvention in the Workplace: 10 Action Steps for Dealing with the Aftermath of Suicide
    This guide provides workplace leaders with clear action steps for suicide postvention, including immediate, short-term, and long-term responses to help employees cope with the aftermath of the traumatic event.
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    Zero Suicide Institute of Australasia Evaluation Framework
    This evaluation framework from the Zero Suicide Institute of Australasia tracks outcomes, actions, and measures.
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    The Surgeon General's Call to Action to Implement the National Strategy for Suicide Prevention
    The Call to Action identifies six key actions that must be prioritized and implemented now in order to reverse the upward trend of suicide deaths in the U.S.

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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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