Toolkits

  1. Suicide Prevention Resource Center: The Strategic Planning Approach for Suicide Prevention: Suicide prevention efforts are most effective when they are guided by a strategic planning process. Strategic planning can help you determine specific problems and populations on which to focus, identify activities that will be effective in preventing suicide, and prioritize your efforts to achieve maximum impact. 
  2. North Carolina School Suicide Prevention Toolkit for Parent, Family and Community Involvement: The North Carolina School Suicide Prevention Toolkit is designed to be a straightforward and practical resource to assist schools in properly identifying students with suicidal ideation and behaviors, action steps to ensure their safety, protocols for referrals to appropriate professional care, and continuous follow up to ensure wraparound services. This toolkit incorporates existing material, research findings, and templates that have been compiled by the consensus of subject matter experts as effective and efficient resources for the prevention and intervention of suicide among children and adolescents in school settings. 
  3. Preventing Suicide: A Toolkit for High Schools | SAMHSA Publications and Digital Products: This toolkit assists high schools and school districts in designing and implementing strategies to prevent suicide and promote behavioral health. The toolkit includes tools to implement a multifaceted suicide prevention program that responds to the needs and cultures of students. 
  4. Suicide Prevention Resource Center: Suicide Prevention Toolkit for Primary Care Practices: Primary care providers have an important role to play in suicide prevention. This toolkit can be used by all primary care providers. It contains tools, information, and resources to implement state-of-the-art suicide prevention practices and overcome barriers to treating suicidal patients in the primary care setting. You’ll find assessment guidelines, safety plans, billing tips, sample protocols and more. 
  5. Rural Health Information Hub Rural Suicide Prevention Toolkit: This toolkit compiles evidence-based and promising models and resources to support organizations implementing suicide prevention programs in rural communities across the United States. The modules in the toolkit contain resources and information focused on developing, implementing, evaluating, and sustaining rural suicide prevention programs. 
  6. 988 Partner Toolkit | Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration: The 988 Partner Toolkit is a resource center for social media, video, print, radio, FAQs, messaging, and other marketing materials that can be used to promote the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. Supplies are available for free in limited quantities. It is designed for states, territories, tribes, crisis centers, communities, emergency service providers, and other partners to speak with one voice so there is a clear understanding of the 988 Lifeline and how it works. Partners can use or adapt these outreach materials and build upon them with their community coalitions to meet the needs of their specific audiences. 
  7. American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) After a Suicide: A Toolkit for Schools : After a Suicide: A Toolkit for Schools assists schools in implementing a coordinated response to the suicide death of a student. Originally developed in 2011, the second edition includes new information and tools that middle and high schools can use to help the school community cope and reduce suicide risk. The toolkit was developed in collaboration with the AFSP and consultation with national experts, including school-based administrators and staff, clinicians, researchers, and crisis response professionals. It is designed primarily for administrators and staff but can also be useful for parents and communities.