Emergency departments and suicidal patients

• Print materials, tools, and training opportunities for emergency departments and mental health centers working to prevent suicide.

Primary care provides

• Print materials and training opportunities for primary care providers working to prevent suicide.

Public health

• Resources for public health professionals and policymakers regarding suicide prevention.

After a suicide attempt or suicidal experience

• Resources and materials for survivors of suicide attempts and suicidal experiences and their supporters.

After a suicide loss

• Resources and materials for suicide loss survivors, including individuals, families, communities, schools, workplaces, and organizations.

Youth and young adult suicide prevention

• Resources and materials supporting suicide prevention for young people in Colorado.

Colorado Hospital Follow-up project

Colorado’s Hospital Follow-Up Project is a collaboration between CDPHE’s Office of Suicide Prevention, Rocky Mountain Crisis Partners, Second Wind Fund, and health systems across the state. Follow-up services are telephonic caring contacts offered to clients discharged from an emergency department after experiencing a mental health crisis or overdose event.

• The Colorado Follow-Up Project provides free telephonic caring contacts for patients. These contacts typically occur weekly for 30 days, a high-risk time post-discharge.

Zero Suicide Colorado

Zero Suicide is a framework for safety and quality improvement in heath care, rooted in the belief that suicide deaths among people receiving care in health systems are preventable.

• Access Zero Suicide tools and resources to help your health system implement dedicated quality improvement initiatives to provide responsive care.

• Learn more about current funding and grant opportunities.
• Learn more about the Office of Suicide Prevention community grantees.

• Learn more about priority public health initiatives, data resources, and current grantees.

• An interactive data visualization dashboard utilizing Colorado Violent Death Reporting System Data. 
  • A guide for using the data dashboard.

• A variety of data resources, general injury reports, and data on:
  • suicide
  • adult falls
  • prescription drug abuse
  • motor vehicle
  • child fatality and abuse
  • marijuana
  • sexual violence
  • infant safe sleep

• The suicide investigation form is a tool for investigators to use during the death investigation process.