This section of the toolkit provides information on screening and risk formulation with the goal of creating an individualized treatment plan to manage risk.
Resource Types: Toolkit
Zero Suicide Toolkit: Safe Care Transitions
This section of the toolkit provides information and resources addressing safe transitions in care.
Zero Suicide Toolkit: Train—Develop a competent, confident, caring workforce
This section of the toolkit provides information and resources on how to assess staff skills and train staff on how to provide safer suicide care.
RAND Suicide Prevention Program Evaluation Toolkit
This toolkit was designed to help program staff overcome common challenges to evaluating and planning improvements to their programs. It discusses the process of developing a program logic model that ties program activities to intermediate outcomes, helps staff better understand the drivers of any changes in long-term outcomes, such as suicide rates and offers information about the latest evaluation research in order to design an evaluation that is appropriate for a particular program. The toolkit’s design and content are the result of a rigorous, systematic review of the program evaluation literature to identify evaluation approaches, measures, and tools used elsewhere and will be particularly useful to coordinators and directors of suicide prevention programs in the U.S. Department of Defense, Veterans Health Administration, community-based settings, and state and local health departments.
Just Talk About It: Suicide Prevention Toolkit
Please note that the CONTACT Crisis Line ceased operation on 12/31/14. To our knowledge, this training is no longer being disseminated. This listing is retained for archival purposes because some organizations continue to offer the program using previously trained facilitators.
Developed by the Teen CONTACT Program at CONTACT Crisis Line, Just Talk About It: Suicide Prevention Toolkit is a program designed to train both adults and adolescents on how to assist youth who exhibit signs of suicidal risk. At the completion of the training, participants are able to better identify a suicidal crisis, how stress can increase suicide risk, symptoms of depression, warning signs associated with suicide and ultimately, how to help a student and/or friend who may be at risk for suicide. After identifying an adolescent who is at risk for suicide, the trainee is able to approach and ask the individual about their condition and refer them to help. Following the adolescent’s acceptance of help, the trained individual is able to take the appropriate measures to refer the person for treatment and/or to the appropriate trained adult, counselor or teacher.
The Teen CONTACT Program at CONTACT Crisis Line has offered community-based suicide prevention training since 2000. Just Talk About It was developed and refined based on evaluations of those trainings. The toolkit is available as a “stand-alone” toolkit, or it can be used in conjunction with Train-the-trainer, direct staff and administrator training, or parent training offered by the CONTACT Crisis LIne in the Dallas area.
Program Objectives
Those who participate in the training will have:
- Greater knowledge of warning signs of suicide.
- Enhanced ability to intervene with those who may be at risk for suicide.
- Increased knowledge of help-seeking resources.
Implementation Essentials
- Schools that use the Just Talk About It program should have established protocols for addressing students who may be at risk for suicide. Teachers and staff should be aware of the protocols.
- Just Talk About It is most effective when used as part of a high school’s larger strategic plan to identify and help at-risk students.
2012 NSSP Objectives Addressed:
Objective 7.1: Provide training on suicide prevention to community groups that have a role in the prevention of suicide and related behaviors.
Continuity of Care for Suicide Prevention: The Role of Emergency Departments
This document provides recommendations and key steps for managing patients at risk for suicide in emergency departments while ensuring that there is effective screening, follow-up and discharge planning.
Toolkit for community conversations about mental health
This toolkit includes three components.
The Information Brief provides data and other facts about the promotion of mental health, prevention of mental illness, and how to promote awareness, early identification, access to treatment, crisis response, and recovery supports. The Information Brief helps educate and inform community conversation participants and facilitators about mental health issues.
The Discussion Guide provides a resource to help guide participants and facilitators through a one-day community conversation. The discussion guide offers a framework for holding a successful and productive conversation.
The Planning guide provides tools to help people hold a one-day community conversation, including information for planning conversations, recruiting and training facilitators, recruiting conversation participants, and identifying steps participants may want to take in order to raise awareness about mental health and promote access to mental health services.
The toolkit is also avaialble in Spanish.
Youth Suicide Prevention Referral and Tracking Toolkit
This toolkit has been created to help school personnel involved in school-based suicide prevention and intervention to (1) track youth identified and referred for risk of suicide and (2) use that information to inform and evaluate suicide prevention practice. It is based on the lessons learned from the Maine Youth Suicide Prevention Program’s (MYSPP) implementation of a comprehensive approach to suicide prevention. The toolkit is organized into two parts: (1) Facilitating good data collection and use and (2) Additional resources and background.
Preventing suicide: A toolkit for high schools
This toolkit provides information on how to reduce suicide risk among high school students.
Community provider toolkit
Developed by the Department of Veterans Affairs, this online community provider toolkit is aimed at delivering support, therapeutic tools, and resources to community providers treating veterans for mental health concerns.
The goal of the community provider toolkit is to enhance the delivery of mental health services to veterans through increased communication and coordination of care between community providers and VA. It provides information about accessing, communicating with, and, if needed, making referrals to VA, and also provides tools to assist veterans who are dealing with a variety of challenges, including military sexual trauma, pain, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), serious mental illness (SMI), substance use, suicide prevention, and traumatic brain injury (TBI). The toolkit also includes sections intended to increase providers’ knowledge about military culture.