This toolkit resource identifies ways to build sustainable partnerships between community colleges and county behavioral and mental health departments in order to improve community college students’ access and linkages to mental health services across the continuum of care. It addresses how community college and county staff can find the most appropriate people in each other’s organizations with whom to build collaborations, provides tools and processes that will guide and facilitate building a successful, sustainable partnerships and describes best practices for addressing the unique circumstances for colleges and county behavioral and mental health departments.
Resource Types: Toolkit
Suicide surveillance data toolkit for GLS grantees
This first version of the toolkit is focused on national-level systems that collect data on suicide attempts, deaths, and other related outcomes in order to enable states to access relevant data to help plan programs, understand unique needs of different areas of their states, and demonstrate impact of their work on suicide attempts, suicide deaths, and other related outcomes. Each dataset is profiled with specific examples of what it can and cannot do. Subsequent toolkits will focus on tribal grantees and additional datasets.
Coming together to care: A suicide prevention and postvention toolkit for Texas communities
This 2015 update to the suicide prevention and postvention toolkit focuses on safe suicide care related topics as well as Texas specific information. The goal is to make this a practical resource that community leaders can use in efforts to prevent suicide deaths in Texas and provide action steps to take in the event of a suicide.
First responders’ trauma intervention resource toolkit
This toolkit describes the incidence of PTSD correlated with suicide among first responders. It describes signs and symptoms of PTSD and trauma, warning signs and risk and protective factors. It also describes two interventions, Critical Incident Stress Debriefing and a peer support program. The toolkit was produced in Canada and the help resources listed are Canadian.
CJCA toolkit: Reducing the use of isolation
Subjecting developing adolescents to isolation can cause permanent psychological damage and multiple studies suggest it is highly correlated with suicide. According to research published by the Department of Justice, more than 50% of all youth suicides in juvenile facilities occurred while young people were isolated alone in their rooms, and that more than 60% of young people who committed suicide in custody had a history of being held in isolation. This toolkit provides an overview of the issue of isolation and how it is defined, a summary of the research substantiating the negative impacts of isolation, five steps to reducing the use of isolation, action steps for CJCA directors; and case studies from four state agencies that significantly reduced the use of isolation.
Re-engineered Discharge (RED) Toolkit
This toolkit describes 12 mutually reinforcing actions that hospitals undertake during and after a hospital stay to ensure safe transitions in care.
CSTE tribal epidemiology toolkit: Improving data quality and data sharing with Indian country
This toolkit of resources and best practices was created to help facilitate data sharing and linkage among state/local health departments and tribal entities. While the toolkit is intended to improve public health surveillance in Indian Country, it can address health inequities, enhance collaboration among state, federal and tribal partners and ultimately contribute to the broader effort to improve the health of AI/AN populations.
A Guide to Using Facebook to Promote Suicide Prevention and Mental Illness Stigma Reduction
A Guide to Using Facebook to Promote Suicide Prevention and Mental Illness Stigma Reduction serves as a resource for implementing the Facebook component of the larger “It’s Up to Us” campaign, developed through the County of San Diego Health and Human Services Agency. This campaign was developed to empower the local community to talk openly about mental illness, recognize signs and symptoms of suicide risk, and utilize local resources.
This guide offers an understanding of the “It’s Up to Us” campaign and provides tools to implement the campaign on Facebook. These tools include:
- A series of self-assessment questions to determine if adapting the “It’s Up to Us” Facebook campaign is a good fit to support an organization’s goals.
- Tips to implement and evaluate the Facebook campaign.
- A sample posting schedule that a user can download and customize.
Program Objectives
Users of A Guide to Using Facebook to Promote Suicide Prevention and Mental Illness Stigma Reduction will acquire: 1) Knowledge of how to develop, implement, and manage a Facebook campaign for suicide prevention; and 2) Knowledge of safety issues related to suicide prevention on social media
Implementation Essentials
- Training in suicide prevention/intervention and safe messaging is highly recommended for the person who will be implementing and monitoring the social media campaign.
2012 NSSP Objectives Addressed:
Objective 2.1: Develop, implement, and evaluate communication efforts designed to reach defined segments of the population.
Objective 2.3: Increase communication efforts conducted online that promote positive messages and support safe crisis intervention strategies.
Objective 4.3: Develop, implement, monitor, and update guidelines on the safety of online content for new and emerging communication technologies and applications.
Zero Suicide toolkit
The foundational belief of Zero Suicide is that suicide deaths for individuals under the care of health and behavioral health systems are preventable. For systems dedicated to improving patient safety, Zero Suicide presents an aspirational challenge and practical framework for system-wide transformation toward safer suicide care.
The Zero Suicide toolkit operationalizes the core components necessary for health care systems to transform suicide care into seven elements: Lead, Train, Identify, Engage, Treat, Transition, and Improve. Within each element section, users will find a description of what each element is, why it is necessary to Zero Suicide implementation, a summary of supporting research, and key readings and tools.
Community Guide toolbox
This toolbox is designed to help public health practitioners and community-based organizations apply evidence-based intervention strategies from the Community Preventive Services Task Force. The Community Guide Toolbox contains more than twenty tools for putting the recommendations found in The Community Guide into practice. These tools can help public health professionals conduct assessments and evaluations, engage stakeholders, execute a project plan, and create successful community-based programs. The Toolbox is made up of five sections, each focusing on one of the steps involved in developing an intervention: Assess and Evaluate; Plan an Intervention; Engage stakeholders; Implementation; and Sustainable Programs.