Resource Types: Guidelines/Recommendations

The purpose of this workbook is to help public health program administrators understand what a “success story” is, why it is important to tell success stories, and how to develop success stories.

Provides guidelines on screening, evaluation, treatment and prevention of child and adolescent depression.

Combines a brief review of the literature and current research addressing the effectiveness of early childhood mental health consultation with guidance for designing and implementing program evaluation. It will help states, communities, and programs increase their capacity for high-quality evaluation of early childhood mental health consultation in community-based settings.

The CLCPA is designed to examine cultural and linguistic competence at an agency or organization. This website contains the tool itself and a guide to using the tool.  Registration is required to download the tool. 

This resource provides practical advice and information for people involved in the development of Australian film, television and theatre. It is designed to help inform truthful and authentic portrayals of mental illness and suicide.

Guide provides group planning suggestions, multiple handouts and resources which can be used by group facilitators, and reflections from a survivor perspective.

Developed by the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, the Standards for the Assessment of Suicide Risk among Callers to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline provides crisis telephone workers with evidence-informed standards for assessing a person’s risk for suicide. The Standards include four core domains or principles: (1) suicidal desire, (2) suicidal capability, (3) suicidal intent, and (4) buffers (protective factors1). Research indicates that suicidal desire, capability and intent are separate but interrelated constructs. To help the telephone worker elicit risk, subcomponents of these domains are also described. The Standards set national guidelines for assessing suicide risk among callers to crisis lines, and may be applicable in some clinical settings as well.

Program Objectives:

Those who use the Standards will:
1.Increase their knowledge of factors pertinent to assessing the suicide risk of Lifeline callers.
2.Increase appropriate and direct inquiries of suicide risk among Lifeline callers.

Program Description:
Developed by the Canadian Coalition for Seniors’ Mental Health (CCSMH), the National Guidelines for Seniors’ Mental Health: the Assessment of Suicide Risk and Prevention of Suicide provide 38 recommendations regarding the assessment of suicide risk and prevention of suicide in seniors. Each of the recommendations is graded on an A, B, C, D scale, according to its corresponding level of scientific evidence.
Program Objectives:
The objectives of the National Guidelines were to:
1. Identify best-practice guidelines in the area of seniors’ mental health both for Canada and internationally.
2. Facilitate the collaboration of key healthcare leaders within the realm of seniors’ mental health in order to review existing guidelines and the literature relevant to seniors’ mental health.
3. Facilitate a process of partnership where key leaders and identified stakeholders create a set of recommendations and/or guidelines for identified areas within seniors’ mental health.
4. Disseminate the draft recommendations and/or guidelines to stakeholders at the CCSMH Best Practices Conference in 2005 in order to create an opportunity for review and analysis before moving forward with the final recommendations and/or guidelines.
5. Disseminate completed guidelines to health care professionals and stakeholders across the country.

The Bazelon Center offers this model policy to help colleges and universities develop a nondiscriminatory approach to a student who is in crisis because of a mental health problem. The model was developed after consultation with mental health experts, higher education administrators, counselors and students. It places particular emphasis on how to deal fairly and non-punitively with students in crisis, and how to support those whose mental health problems may be interfering with their academic, extracurricular or social lives. It does not, however, attempt to address the full range of activities and services that a college or university should undertake to promote student mental health.

This spreadsheet/checklist was developed for Veterans Affairs Hospitals to use to review inpatient mental health units for environmental hazards. The purpose is to identify and abate environmental hazards that could increase the chance of patient suicide or self-harm. The checklist has been used in all VA mental health units since October 2007