Zero Suicide (ZS)

Overview: A training workshop focused on a systematic approach to improve suicide care through the adoption of evidence-based and best-practice safety standards. This approach, identified by the Zero Suicide initiative, encompasses screening, risk assessment, safety planning, follow-up care, treatment, training, and quality improvement.

Time: 1 Hour

Audience: Agency Leadership

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Training Objectives

  • Describe the Zero Suicide framework, including components for implementation.
  • Become familiar with research supporting Zero Suicide and applications to mental health, health, and community-based settings.
  • Be able to identify and describe steps involved in creating a Suicide Care Pathway.
  • Become oriented to Zero Suicide Institute resources for implementation, including the purpose of completing a Zero Suicide Organizational Self-Study.

Research

Suicide Prevention: An Emerging Priority for Health Care. Michael F. Hogan & Julie Goldstein Grumet

Michael F. Hogan & Julie Goldstein Grumet
https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2015.1672

Zero Suicide: The Movement to Safer Suicide Care in Health Care. Julie Goldstein Grumet, Michael F. Hogan, David Covington, & C. Edward Coffey

Julie Goldstein Grumet, Michael F. Hogan, David Covington, & C. Edward Coffey
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41319-4_38-1

    CEUs available to those licensed with the Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy
    and Mental Health Counseling: Provider Number 50-12347, exp. 3/31/2025