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Zero Suicide, considered an aspirational goal and strategy of the National Strategy for Suicide Prevention, National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention, and Suicide Prevention Resource Center, calls for a paradigm shift and commitment to reducing the number of suicides of those served by behavioral health and health systems in our state to ZERO. That requires focused attention and leadership commitment to address the 7 elements of Zero Suicide.
The Florida LEADS Project invites you to participate in a statewide Zero Suicide learning collaborative aimed at assessing the quality of suicide care, educating on suicide best practices, and sharing successful programs and lessons learned from within our state. The learning collaborative will bring together subject matter experts and agency leadership from various disciplines to discuss and strategize on screening, assessment, intervention, treatment, transitions, training, evaluation, and quality improvement.
Based on a needs assessment obtained through live-polling of over 100 behavioral health leaders at Florida Behavioral
Health Association’s BH Con in August 2023, and subsequent survey of additional leaders not able to attend, the following
needs were identified and developed into a 2024 agenda of bi-monthly topics:
Participation Pledges for the Zero Suicide Learning Collaborative will be accepted on a rolling basis. To get started, please review and complete the Participation Pledge (click on the Join Collaborative button). At that time, include contact information for additional agency staff who you would like to attend sessions (in addition to your alternate identified within the pledge). Only one Participation Pledge is required per agency. Calendar invites with webinar links will be provided to pledged participants once Pledge has been accepted. We hope you can join us!