Best Practices Registry (BPR) For Suicide Prevention

Emergency Room Intervention for Adolescent Females

URL:

http://www.nrepp.samhsa.gov/ViewIntervention.aspx?id=33

Emergency Room Intervention for Adolescent Females is an emergency room based intervention for female suicide attempters and adult caregivers that has demonstrated decreased suicidal ideation, among other positive outcomes, for adolescent female suicide attempters and their adult caregivers. It is available from UCLA. The training manual is free; the training video and the program video are available for a fee.

The BPR is a collaboration between the Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC) and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP). Funding is provided by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).

The SPRC is supported by a grant (1 U79 SM059945-01 ) from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). No official endorsement by SAMHSA or DHHS for the information on this web site is intended or should be inferred.

The Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC) is a project within EDC's Health & Human Development Division (HHD)
43 Foundry Avenue Waltham, MA 02453-8313 877-GET-SPRC (438-7772) info@sprc.org