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Transforming health care systems to create “zero suicide” care
Monday, November 17, 2014
Doryn Chervin, DrPH
,
Health and Human Development Division, Education Development Center, Inc., Washington, DC
Katherine Deal, MPH
,
Suicide Prevention Resource Center, Education Development Center, Washington, DC
The most innovative suicide intervention initiatives are those that have adopted a “zero suicide” approach to improve the care and outcomes for individuals at risk for suicide in health care systems. This session will describe the bold and collaborative efforts of the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention (Action Alliance), the public-private partnership advancing the National Strategy for Suicide Prevention, to promote widespread adoption of this “zero suicide” approach as a priority activity for reaching the Action Alliance’s goal of saving 20,000 lives in five years. The session will highlight the Action Alliance’s partnership development, expanding learning collaborative of systems adopting this approach, and comprehensive online toolkit that offers resources that build upon early-adopting systems’ outcomes and lessons learned related to cultural and systems change, safety and performance improvement, workforce development, and suicide assessment, intervention, treatment, and follow-up practices.
Learning Areas:
Administration, management, leadership
Public health administration or related administration
Public health or related organizational policy, standards, or other guidelines
Systems thinking models (conceptual and theoretical models), applications related to public health
Learning Objectives:
Describe the concept and core elements of "zero suicide" health care as an example of an innovative and collaborative suicide prevention initiative.
Keyword(s): Suicide, Health Care Delivery
Presenting author's disclosure statement:Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am the Executive Secretary of the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention, the public-private partnership providing leadership for the content of the presentation.
Any relevant financial relationships? No
I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines,
and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed
in my presentation.
