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  • Readings
    Preventing Suicide and Self-Harm in Jail: A Sentinel Events Report
    This report guides jail staff to utilize a sentinel event review to better understand suicide outcomes and improve policy and practice.
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    Zero Suicide Care Pathway Guide
    The Suicide Care Pathway guides the system’s response and clearly outlines the care an individual at risk can expect to receive.
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    Parents to Parents: After Your Child's Suicide Attempt
    This video captures many of the questions raised by parents and describes best practices in suicide care so that parents can best navigate a complex healthcare system.
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    National Guidelines for Child and Youth Behavioral Health Crisis Care
    This resource outlines a framework for states and communities to consider as they create or expand their safer suicide care services for youth and families.
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    World Health Organization Brief Intervention and Contact
    This resource outlines the WHO's Brief Intervention and Contact Sessions to provide after an ED discharge.
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    Zero Suicide Institute Global Forum
    This event brought together top healthcare leaders, experts and policymakers from around the world to revolutionize access to behavioral healthcare.
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    Safe Care Transitions for Suicide Prevention

    The Utah Department of Human Services Substance Abuse and Mental Health and Utah Zero Suicide Learning Collaborative include best practice strategies and suggested protocols for safe care transitions.

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    988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline Suicide Safety Policy
    The Suicide Safety Policy ties together the need for consistent, uniform assessment of safety/risk and clear unified parameters for assisting callers/chatters and texters at highest risk.
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    Guidelines for Integrated Suicide-Related Crisis and Follow-Up Care in Emergency Departments and Other Acute Settings
    These guidelines can be used by those working in acute settings to inform service planning, better equip and support staff to work effectively with those at risk of suicide, and guide empathic, compassionate responses to people experiencing suicidal crisis.
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    Implementing and Sustaining Zero Suicide: Health Care System Efforts to Prevent Suicide
    This report was commissioned to better understand how organizations choose to implement and sustain a Zero Suicide initiative.

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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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