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Evidence
Find out what researchers and implementers are saying about how Zero Suicide can transform systems for safer care.
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Movement
Movement
Join the Zero Suicide movement, a call for safer suicide care in health and behavioral health powered by a network of implementors and innovators.
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Toolkit
Toolkit
The Zero Suicide Toolkit is a detailed guide to Zero Suicide implementation and strategy.
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Resources
Resources
A multi-source collection of readings, tools, videos, and webinars to help you understand and implement Zero Suicide.
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The Ridge Behavioral Health System, located in the heart of Bluegrass Country, provides a variety of behavioral health services to people throughout the state of Kentucky. Owned and operated by Universal Health Services (UHS), the largest facility-based behavioral health provider in the United States, The Ridge was tasked with transforming suicide care by partnering with the Zero Suicide Institute.
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ToolsThis resource is intended to provide recommendations to health systems on making progress in the IMPROVE element of Zero Suicide. The information that follows was compiled through targeted discussions with an advisory group of heath and behavioral health care (HBH) organizations convened by the Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC).
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Tools
Roadmap to Resilience by Dr.
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Webinars
Mental health professionals continue to provide therapy for patients using telehealth despite this new era of quarantine and COVID-19.
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Tools
Zero Suicide provides a practical framework to help support a system-wide focus on safer suicide care, even in these challenging times.
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Tools
With the emergence of this public health crisis and the need to socially isolate, most providers have moved to telehealth. For both providers and for patients, this may be a new practice. Research suggests that telemedicine can be as effective as face-to-face care.
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Podcasts
These two podcasts focus on data and evaluation related to Zero Suicide implementation and feature Dr. Brian Ahmedani, Ph.D., LMSW, of the Henry Ford Health System Center for Health Services Research and Julie Drew, LCSW, MPA, of Geisinger Health System’s AtlantiCare, in New Jersey.
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Tools
This guide lists key elements for sustainability for health and behavioral health care programs implementing Zero Suicide in Indian Country.
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Tools
In 2001, Henry Ford Behavioral Health was the first to pioneer and conceptualize “zero suicides” as a goal, and develop a care pathway to assess and modify suicide risk for patients with depression.
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Tools
The ZEST toolkit is intended to provide guidance and support to community behavioral health centers in Texas to implement the zero suicide framework. The toolkit outlines goals for each core component and provides tools and resources to guide implementation activities.