About Us

The Center for Suicide Prevention and Recovery (CSPAR) has teamed up with implementation experts at St Luke’s Health System and the Idaho Crisis Line to develop the Caring Contacts Toolkit, with additional support from the Clinical Informatics Research Group (CIRG) and experts in Human Centered Design and clinical decision support tools.

The Center for Suicide Prevention and Recovery promotes the recovery of individuals experiencing suicidal thoughts and behavior and the effectiveness and resilience of the clinical staff and families who care for them through

conducting rigorous and ecologically valid research
developing innovative interventions
improving policies, systems and environments of care
providing expert training and consultation
listening to and understanding the lived experience of those we serve

The Center for Suicide Prevention and Recovery (CSPAR) is a part of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington.

Project Team

Center for Suicide Prevention and Recovery

Kate Comtois, Director
Barbara Wright
Anna Evanson
Juliann Salisbury

Clinical Informatics Research Group

William Lober, Director
Justin McReynolds
Amy Chen
Sierramatice Karras

Funding

This project was made possible through generous grant support from the Face the Fight™ Charitable Fund.

Special thanks to the Garvey Institute for Brain Health Solutions for funding prior pilot work that greatly influenced this project.

Acknowledgments

We would like to thank the founding companies of Face the Fight—USAA, the Humana Foundation, and Reach Resilience.

Terms of Use

You are welcome to adapt, distribute, modify, use, or otherwise reproduce for non-commercial use for any of our materials with citation under Creative Commons.

We’d love to hear how you’ve used or adapted this Caring Contacts Toolkit, send us a note about it to caringcontacts@uw.edu

Please cite with the following:

For use, distributions, and reproductions:
For use, distributions, and reproductions: “Caring Contacts Toolkit” by UW CSPAR is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 and was accessed on [mm/dd/yyyy].”

For adaptions and modifications:
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