Medical providers can fulfill the new state law requiring health professionals to complete a one-time training in suicide assessment, treatment, and management with All Patients Safe: Suicide Prevention for Medical Professionals. All Patients Safe is a highly interactive, suicide prevention training developed by UW Medicine and Forefront Suicide Prevention in partnership with Seattle Children’s, CoMotion and the VA. Department faculty members who helped develop the training include Anna Ratzliff, MD, PhD; Ian Bennet, MD, PhD; John Kern, MD; Molly Adrian, PhD; and Mark Reger, PhD, who worked alongside Jennifer Stuber, PhD, and Jennifer Barron, MA, BSW, from Forefront. The program is unique in: 1) offering the perspectives of real patients; 2) in supplying practical suicide prevention skills that are relevant to any patient (not just those with mental health disorders who may be at-risk for suicide) and, 3) in tying the skills medical providers need to know to prevent suicide in their practices and communities to protocol and organizational changes that can be moved forward right away.
At the end of the course, medical providers will:
- Understand their role in suicide prevention;
- Be able to provide a message about how to make their home safer to prevent suicide, opioid, overdose, accidental poisonings and firearm-related fatalities;
- Feel confident to integrate suicide prevention skills into your practice and personal life;
- Learn how to integrate screening, assessment and safety tools into their practice setting;
- Develop a strategy to advocate for protocol and practice changes.
