Transition

After completing the Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention's Outpatient Health Care Self-Assessment health care organizations and providers can use this Outpatient Care Transitions Action Planning template to develop a comprehensive approach to improving their care transitions process.

The National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention's Outpatient Health Care Self-Assessment is designed to help outpatient providers assess their care transition policies and practices against each of the best practices outlined in the Best Practices in Care Transitions in Care Transitions for I

SAMHSA's National Guidelines for Crisis Care – A Best Practice Toolkit advances national guidelines in crisis care within a toolkit that supports program design, development, implementation and continuous quality improvement efforts.

Crisis Now is led by the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors (NASMHPD) and developed with the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, the National Council for Mental Wellbeing, and RI International.

In this article, a Zero Suicide implementer shares how their system transformed the way they transition patients through care.

Zero Suicide Institute director Dr. Julie Goldstein Grumet appeared on the Pediatric Meltdown podcast with Lia Gaggino. In episode 107 "Suicide Prevention That Works: The Zero Suicide Framework," Dr. Gaggino interviews Dr.

Yakama Nation Behavioral Health Services prepared these caring contact cards for their clients and provided them as examples for other Zero Suicide implementers. They demonstrate how caring contacts can send a message of thoughtful support.

Follow the link below to access the online portal for the Zero Suicide Organizational Self-Study. Your Zero Suicide implementation team should complete the self-study, with input from staff involved in policymaking and care for patients at risk for suicide.

To help organizations strengthen their care transitions process and close the gaps in care, the Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention - with funding from Universal Health Services - developed this sample Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for Inpatient and Outpatient Behavioral Health Care provid

The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (now the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline) created Follow-Up Matters, a website dedicated to promoting follow-up care as an impactful and cost-effective method of suicide prevention.