This toolkit contains the information and tools needed to implement state-of-the-art suicide prevention practices in primary care settings. It includes sections on educating clinicians and office staff and developing mental health partnerships, as well as patient management tools and patient education tools.
Resource Types: Toolkit
Get connected: Linking older adults with medication, alcohol, and mental health resources
This toolkit is designed to assist program managers with planning prevention programs to address substance use and mental health problems in older adults. It covers assessing the readiness of an organization to implement a program, creating an arsenal of resources as sources of information, planning staff education, and writing a program plan. The toolkit is accompanied by a YouTube Video and booklet that profiles program success stories.
Tools from the CAPT: Increasing cultural competence to reduce behavioral health disparities
These tools are for use by practitioners working across behavioral health sectors. They are intended to serve as a starting point for forging new partnerships, raising awareness, and developing and delivering the interventions needed to eliminate behavioral health disparities in our communities.
Police-mental health collaboration (PMHC) toolkit
This toolkit provides resources for law enforcement agencies to partner with mental health providers to effectively respond to calls for service, improve outcomes for people with mental illness, and advance the safety of all. The tools can also be adapted for use by campus safety organizations. Technical assistance for law enforcement organizations is available.
An employer’s guide to policy approaches to address alcohol, drugs, tobacco, mental health, suicide, and chronic disease
The aim of this toolkit is to support employers who are seeking ways to improve the health and well-being of their employees. It is focused on policy approaches and provides useful tools and resources for employers to use in the planning and implementation of policies that support employee health. Model policies and resources are provided for mental health & suicide prevention, substance abuse, alcohol, tobacco & other drugs, chronic disease, physical activity, nutrition and creating a breastfeeding-friendly workplace.
Red Flags – A School-based Prevention Program
A framework and toolkit for school-based (K-12) mental health education.
Hope for Life Day Toolkit
This toolkit is geared towards professionals and grass-roots organizers working in AI/AN communities to implement a community-wide Hope for Life Day on September 10 of each year.The National American Indian/Alaska Native Hope for Life Day coincides with World Suicide Prevention Day on September 10 of each year. This toolkit will help community organizers take specific steps to change the conversation around suicide, initiate action for awareness, and foster hope in the effort to reduce or eliminate suicide in their community. Organizers are encouraged to host culturally tailored events in their community to promote hope, life, cultural resiliency, and community transformation.
Behavioral health among college students information & resource kit
This toolkit discusses the range of substance misuse among many young adults as they enter colleges and universities or may develop during their college years. There is a section on suicide as a correlate and consequence of substance misuse. It provides tools and links to other resources to address the substance misuse problem.
ZEST toolkit for suicide safer care centers
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. The toolkit remains under development and additional tools and resources will be added as they are developed. Please note, the ZEST toolkit does not reflect all possible suicide safe care best practices, but rather incorporates the goals identified for DSHS-funded mental health providers.
Promoting emotional health and preventing suicide: A toolkit for senior centers
This toolkit provides ideas for integrating suicide prevention into the work of senior centers.