Community Toolkit for Preventing Suicide
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- Community Toolkits
Communities can play a critical role in suicide prevention, and the toolkits below are a great place to start. The toolkits contain step-by-step guidance for building a community coalition, defining its goals and putting plans into action, along with specific recommendations for employers and other groups.
What is a Suicide Prevention Coalition?
A suicide prevention coalition is a voluntary, formal agreement and collaboration between groups or sectors of a community in which each group retains its identity, but all agree to work together toward a common goal of building a safer and healthier community.
How to Build a Community Coalition
- South Dakota Prevention Network
- Building a Coalition to Prevent Suicide
- Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF)
Community Toolkit
Effective suicide prevention is a team effort. Use these tools and resources to start the conversation and spread hope.
Employer Toolkit
Native American Toolkit
- To Live To See the Great Day That Dawns: Preventing Suicide by American Indian and Alaska Native Youth and Young Adults
- Hope for Life Day Toolkit
- Transforming Tribal Communities: Indigenous Perspective on Suicide Prevention
- Best and Promising Practices for the Implementation of Zero Suicide in Indian Country
Healthcare Toolkits
- Suicide Prevention Toolkit for Rural Primary Care Practice
- Depression Toolkit for Primary Care Clinicians: The Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) Adolescent Toolkit
- Zero Suicide Toolkit
- At-Risk in Primary Care — Adolescents
- After a Suicide: A Toolkit for College of Veterinary Medicine
- After a Suicide: A Toolkit for Medical Schools
- After a Suicide: A Toolkit for Residency/Fellowship Programs
Senior Care Toolkits
Military Member and Veteran Toolkits