Recording available: Suicide Prevention through Emergency Departments/Crisis Center Partnerships

Dana October 8, 2017 iCarol

On Wednesday, we welcomed Dr. Michael Allen and Charissa Tvrdy of Rocky Mountain Crisis Partners (RMCP), and Caitlin Peterson of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (NSPL), to talk about how follow-up contacts and partnerships between crisis centers and hospital emergency departments (ED) are impacting suicide prevention efforts.

Dr. Allen and Charissa spoke of their experience working at RMCP where they partner with a large number of hospitals spread out over hundreds of miles. They expanded on their experience, data, and lessons learned from these collaborations where ED visitors are assessed and referred to their program for a series of follow-up calls following the hospital visit. Caitlin discussed the Lifeline’s Follow-up Matters initiative and microsite that provides crisis centers with data and other tools to help build a follow-up program, including information to help build collaborative efforts with local hospitals.

This engaging webinar and our presenter’s slides are now available for viewing.

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Dana

Dana (She/Her/Hers) joined the iCarol team in 2013 after 12 years of direct service and administrative duties at a blended 2-1-1/crisis intervention/suicide prevention center. As the Communications and Social Media Manager at iCarol, you'll find her presenting Webinars, Tweeting, Blogging, Facebooking, and producing other materials that aid helplines in their work.