Join us to explore how frontline staff can step into leadership roles to advance Zero Suicide implementation, foster a just culture, and drive safer suicide care.
A Roadmap for Zero Suicide Champions
Zero Suicide presents an aspirational challenge and practical framework for systems-wide transformation toward safer suicide care. This webinar explores the role of frontline staff in implementation—from the direct care provided to individuals with suicide risk to leading efforts for action planning, implementation and sustainability. We will highlight prevention, intervention and postvention strategies, quality improvement techniques, and organization-level actions that promote safer suicide care and the development of a just culture.
Leading Zero Suicide from the Frontline Series
All staff have a role in preventing suicide, but frontline professionals—such as social workers, psychologists, nurses, peer support specialists, and supervisors—are uniquely positioned to drive meaningful Zero Suicide implementation. Their direct service experience provides critical insight into what works, what doesn’t, and where systems can improve.
Advancing Zero Suicide as a Frontline Provider is a free, three-part webinar series designed for health and behavioral health staff working in clinical, direct service, and leadership roles. The series explores evidence-informed strategies, practical tools, and real-world interventions to support frontline staff in implementing Zero Suicide and advocating for system-wide transformation toward safer suicide care.
Recordings of past webinars, along with recommended Zero Suicide resources, will be available at the links below.
Webinars
- Webinar 1: A Roadmap for Zero Suicide Champions—February 18th
- Webinar 2: Supporting Youth and Families—March 10th
- Webinar 3: The Power of Lived Experience—April 9th
Resources
- Zero Suicide Toolkit Resources
Zero Suicide Toolkit: The Zero Suicide model operationalizes the core components necessary for health care systems to transform suicide care into seven elements. The Toolkit uses research, tools, and videos to walk implementers through putting the Zero Suicide model into practice.
Toolkit Adaptations: Zero Suicide is an adaptable model appropriate for a range of health and behavioral health settings and applicable across populations. Toolkit Adaptations are designed to complement the Zero Suicide Toolkit by filtering each element through a setting- and population-specific lens.
Getting Started with Zero Suicide: Wondering how to get started with Zero Suicide in your organization? This resource outlines 10 steps to getting started.
Organizational Self-Studies: The Organizational Self-Study is designed to assess what components of the comprehensive Zero Suicide approach are currently in place and the degree to which the components are embedded within key organizational and clinical areas. The Organizational Self-Study also helps to assess organizational and clinical area-specific strengths and opportunities for development across each component.
Data Dashboard: The Zero Suicide Data Dashboard is intended to assist health and behavioral healthcare organizations in developing a data-driven, quality-improvement approach to suicide care by allowing organizations to enter, edit, and monitor their data specific to their implementation of the Zero Suicide model.
Suicide Care Insights: In Suicide Care Insights: Stories & Tips for Your Implementation, we've identified six topics related to workforce wellbeing and how safe suicide care can transform organizational culture. We present them here to you as a series of six resources using a mixed-media approach. Three of the resources are in the form of recorded stories. The other three are downloadable tips on how and what to implement to support and improve care for patients.
The Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) Worksheet: A useful quality improvement tool for documenting a test of change.
- Support from Zero Suicide at EDC
Zero Suicide Institute offers training and consultation to support your Zero Suicide implementation. To further your implementation goals, we recommend:
WyKisha McKinney, senior project associate, is a national expert in mental health promotion and suicide prevention with over 20 years of experience in nonprofit leadership and advocacy.
Amy Molloy, senior project associate, is a behavioral health expert with 14 years of leadership experience in suicide prevention, mental health promotion, veterans’ services, and education.
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