"Research has yielded evidence-based suicide prevention strategies and tools for screening, risk stratification, and interventions and services to reduce suicide risk. Yet, the lack of scalable approaches for training, supervising, and monitoring the quality of delivery by clinicians, peer specialists and other paraprofessional providers leaves many providers feeling ill-equipped to serve some of their most vulnerable service users, and limits overall access to effective, evidence-based suicide prevention."
"The significant behavioral health service provider shortage affecting more than a third of the U.S. population compounds the problem. This further underscores the need for a more robust, complementary, and well-trained provider base, including sustainable strategies for integrating and expanding the number of effective peer support specialists and paraprofessionals into clinical and community practice settings. The proposed concept would foster research that tests solutions to improve the effectiveness, quality, and availability of suicide prevention services."
Research has produced evidence-based strategies and tools for suicide screening, risk stratification, interventions, and services. A lack of scalable approaches for training, supervising, and monitoring clinicians, peer specialists, and paraprofessionals limits provider competence and access to effective care. A significant behavioral health workforce shortage affecting over a third of the U.S. population exacerbates service gaps. Building a more robust, complementary, and well-trained provider base, including sustainable integration and expansion of peer support specialists and paraprofessionals, is necessary. Research should test solutions that optimize training, supervision, quality monitoring tools, and novel technologies to support real-time monitoring and sustained implementation fidelity in suicide prevention services.
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