Improving Care to
Prevent Suicide
Among People with
Serious Mental Illness
PROCEEDINGS OF A WORKSHOP
Steve Olson, Rapporteur
Board on Health Care Services
Health and Medicine Division
Board on Children, Youth, and Families
Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education
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PLANNING COMMITTEE ON IMPROVING CARE TO PREVENT SUICIDE AMONG PEOPLE WITH SERIOUS MENTAL ILLNESS1
M. DAVID RUDD (Chair), President, University of Memphis
TERESA BROCKIE, Assistant Professor, Community Public Health Nursing, School of Nursing, Johns Hopkins University
M. JUSTIN COFFEY, Vice President and Chief Information Officer, The Menninger Clinic
CHELSEY GODDARD, Vice President, Education Development Center, Inc.
AIMEE C. JOHNSON, Program Specialist, Public Private Partnerships, Office of Mental Health and Suicide Prevention, Veterans Health Administration, Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center
NADINE KASLOW, Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, School of Medicine, Emory University
ANDREY OSTROVSKY, Chief Executive Officer, Concerted Care Group
Project Staff
MARC MEISNERE, Associate Program Officer
JOSEPH GOODMAN, Senior Program Assistant
WENDY KEENAN, Program Officer (until July 2018)
NATALIE PEROU LUBIN, Senior Program Assistant (from September 2018)
SHARYL J. NASS, Director, Board on Health Care Services
NATACHA BLAIN, Director, Board on Children, Youth, and Families
Consultant
BRIDGET B. KELLY, Principal Consultant, Burke Kelly, Inc.
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Contents
2 PATTERNS OF RISK AND THE PREVENTION LANDSCAPE
3 SUICIDE PREVENTION IN HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS
4 MILITARY SERVICE MEMBERS AND VETERANS
5 NATIVE AMERICANS AND ALASKA NATIVES
6 CONNECTING PREVENTION ALONG THE CONTINUUM OF CARE
7 PERSPECTIVES ON THE FUTURE ALONG THE CONTINUUM
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