Zero Suicide Initiative
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c/o Shauna Graf
Parkwood Institute Mental Health Care Bldg
550 Wellington Rd S
London, ON
N6C 0A7
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Switchboard: 519-646-6100
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Administration: Mon-Fri 8:30am-4:30pm
Application
Call or email

Eligibility - Population(s) Served
Community-based organizations

Executives
Jodi Younger - Vice President Patient Care and Quality
St. Joseph's Health Care London
jodi.younger@sjhc.london.on.ca

Contacts
Shauna Graf - Specialist, Quality, Transformation and Innovation
St. Joseph's Health Care London
shauna.graf@sjhc.london.on.ca

Languages
English

Language Note
Interpretation available upon request * advance notice appreciated

Area(s) Served
Southwestern Ontario

Accessibility
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Description of Services:
A free resource, created in collaboration with Niagara Region Public Health, that has been designed to support organizations that are not a formal part of the health care sector, by providing them with tools to enhance suicide prevention within their own organizations

Based on seven components, including:
  • creating a leadership-driven safety-oriented culture
  • develop a competent, confident, and caring workforce
  • identify and assess suicide risk among people receiving care
  • ensuring every person has a suicide care management plan, or pathway to care, that is both timely and adequate to meet his or her needs
  • use of effective, evidence-based treatments that directly target suicidality
  • provide continuous contact and support, especially after acute care
  • apply a data-driven quality improvement approach to inform system changes that will lead to improved patient outcomes and better care for those at risk

Promotes a competent, confident, and caring workforce in suicide prevention, intervention and postvention

Videos:

The Zero Suicide Initiative

About Us

A system-wide quality improvement initiative at St. Joseph’s Health Care London which sets a aspirational goal of reducing suicide deaths and attempted suicide deaths by wrapping care around the individual and creating safe transitions of care.

Last update: Aug 21, 2024: Suggest an edit