This guide was written to provide parents and students with important information about mental health during the college years in order that they may start and continue a conversation that ensures students receive the mental health support they need.
Resource Types: Manual
Survivor Outreach Team Training Manual
Developed by the Kern County (CA) Mental Health Department (now Kern Behavioral Health and Recovery Services), The Survivor Outreach Team Training Manual serves as a resource for how to develop and implement a survivor outreach team. The survivor outreach team is made up of of trained survivors who visit and provide support to families and loved ones who have recently lost someone to suicide. The manual includes:
- Step-by-step instructions for developing necessary community partnerships to help support a survivor outreach team.
- Specific procedures on how to implement a survivor outreach team
- Instructions on how to recruit and train survivor outreach team volunteers.
- Customizable survivor outreach team program templates (e.g., volunteer confidentiality agreement and feedback survey)
Program Objectives
Users of the Survivor Outreach Team Training Manual will acquire:
- Knowledge of how to set up a Survivor Outreach Team; and
- Knowledge of how to train volunteers to do survivor outreach.
Implementation Essentials
- Familiarity with local support groups and other resources for survivors of suicide loss.
2012 NSSP Objectives Addressed:
Objective 10.1: Develop guidelines for effective comprehensive support programs for individuals bereaved by suicide and promote the full implementation of these guidelines at the state/territorial, tribal, and community levels.
Trauma-informed care in behavioral health services: Quick guide for clinicians based on TIP 57
Based on the Treatment Improvement Protocol, Trauma-Informed Care in Behavioral Health Services (TIP 57), this quick guide equips professional care providers and administrators with information for providing care to people who have experienced trauma or are at risk of developing trauma stress reactions. It also addresses prevention, intervention, and treatment issues and strategies.
A journey toward health and hope: Your handbook for recovery after a suicide attempt
Guides people through the first steps toward recovery and a hopeful future after a suicide attempt. Includes personal stories from survivors who share their experiences as well as strategies, such as reestablishing connections, finding a counselor to work with and creating a safety plan.
The Carter Center journalism resource guide on behavioral health
This resource guide is intended to aid the media in fair and accurate coverage of mental illness and behavioral health issues in order that they may create a positive impact and encourage help-seeking.
Entertainment & media depiction suggestions for portraying behavioral health conditions: Mental illness and substance abuse disorders
These guidelines provide suggestions for accurate portrayal, words and tone, ways in which the media can educate, treatment, focusing on recovery and encouraging help-seeking for common mental health conditions, substance use and behaviors such as bullying and suicide.
Protect the community, protect each other
This Guide is written in language familiar to those serving our communities and is intended to help those in law enforcement be able to recognize a fellow officer who might be at risk of suicide and how to take action to help them. It addresses issues specific to officers including confidentiality and disclosures, cultural differences, distressing content posted on Facebook and provides suggested resources.
The guide can be downloaded from the website or printed copies as well as wallet cards with the website address to distribute at conferences, community events, to local police departments, etc., can be obtained through SAVE Director, Dan Reidenberg at dreidenberg@save.org
TIP 59: Improving cultural competence
Assists professional care providers and administrators in understanding the role of culture in the delivery of substance abuse and mental health services. Discusses racial, ethnic, and cultural considerations and the core elements of cultural competence.
NYC Guide to Suicide Prevention, Services and Resources
This guide provides key linkages to resources, tools, research, and support services. It is designed for people who provide care to those who are in distress or at-risk for suicide or who have lost a loved one to suicide.
Caring for adult patients with suicide risk: A consensus guide for emergency departments
This guide is designed to assist Emergency Department (ED) health care professionals with decisions about the care and discharge of patients with suicide risk. Its main goal is to improve patient outcomes after discharge. The guide helps ED caregivers intervene effectively while the patient is in the ED, decide if the patient can be discharged or if further evaluation is needed and ensure that the patient will be safe after leaving the ED.
The guide, funded by SAMHSA, was developed with extensive input from a consensus panel of experts from emergency medicine and suicide prevention organizations, including individuals with lived experience (those who have lived through suicide attempts and suicidal thoughts or feelings). Recommendations in the ED Guide were developed using an iterative process that included both a review of the literature and expert panel consensus.