Wisconsin Zero Suicide Training Materials 2025

Day 1 Resources

• Participant Agenda
• Data Slides for Public Use on the Statistics & Reports webpage
• Risk Factors & Warning Signs
• Train & Treat
• TIC & ACEs
• Language Matters
• DQA Reportable Deaths
• Suicides by County
• Quick Guide to Getting Started with Zero Suicide
• What is Zero Suicide?
• Evidence Base
• Wisconsin Suicide Prevention Plan Strategies

LEAD

• Sample Letter to Staff
• SP in ED and Med/Surg Units
• SP in Healthcare Facilities
• VA NCPS Mental Health EOC Checklist
• Joint Commission SP Compendium
• EOC Checklist - Joint Commission
• Joint Commission Life Safety - EOC Review Tool
• Lead: Involving People with Lived Experience
• Engaging People with Lived Experience
• Lived Experience Toolkit
• Bring Lived Experience To Your Work (Wisconsin Office of Children's Mental Health)

Implementation Planning

• Fillable Action Plan
• Zero Suicide Work Plan Template
• Misty Spreadsheet Updated and Blank

TRAIN

• Sample Letter to Staff about Zero Suicide Workforce Survey
• Suicide Care Training Options
• Workforce Survey Questions
• Workforce Survey Resources
• WZST Training Resource Guide
  • Risk Factors: Farming Population
  • Risk Factors: Men in the Middle Years (MIMY)
  • Risk Factors: Teens/Youth

IDENTIFY

• C-SSRS Clinical Screener
• C-SSRS Risk Assessment Page
• C-SSRS Pocket Guide Template
• PHQ-9

Day 2 Resources

ENGAGE

• Stanley and Brown Safety Plan
• Catalpa Caregiver Safety Plan (11 and younger)
• myStrength Video
• Texas Algorithm (Pathways to Care)

TREAT

• Interventions and Treatments

TRANSITION

• Problems: Gaps in Care
• Best Practices in Care Transitions for Individuals with Suicide Risk: Inpatient Care to Outpatient Care
• Best Practice in Care Transitions for Individuals with Suicide Risk: Inpatient Health Care Self-Assessment
• Safe Care Transitions for Suicide Prevention
• Centerstone Caring Letter
• Now Matters Now - Caring Contacts
• How Caring Letters Prevent Suicide (full video)
• Caring Contact Example

 IMPROVE

• Data Elements Worksheet
• EOC/Checklist Overview Slides
• Environmental Suicide Prevention Memo
• Suicide Prevention EOC Findings
• EOC Checklist
• Clarification of Ligature Risks Memo
• Patient's Rights Ligature Risk Guidance
• Just Culture Algorithm
• Youth Summary (Suicide in Young Children)

 

Slide Decks

• Day 1
• Day 2

 

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Additional Resources

• 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline
• Crisis Services: 988 Implementation (WI Department of Health Services)
• Crisis Text Line, text HOPELINE to 741741
• Children, Teens, and Suicide Loss, AFSP and Dougy Center

 

Videos for Training

• Kate Snow talks about language and suicide
• Patty's story
• ZS website
• Brene Brown Empathy vs. Sympathy
• myStrength video
• David Jobes on Evidence Based Psychological Treatments

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Post-Training Materials

• Faculty Roster

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