Caring Contacts is a simple but powerful evidence-based suicide prevention intervention.
Implementing a successful Caring Contacts program requires thoughtful planning and considerations. The Caring Contacts Toolkit helps organizations to plan for and implement such a program.
The toolkit guides through key program design considerations, provides recommendations around serving specific populations, and offers a variety of tools such as an intervention implementation checklist, a message schedule template builder, and more.
Features
The free, online toolkit features:
- Summary of the evidence-base for the Caring Contacts intervention,
- Why and how Caring Contacts works,
- Suggestions for how best to implement the intervention with your organization’s population of focus, and
- Practical downloadable planning tools and job aides.
Additional Resources
- CSPAR’s free, self-paced training, What if it’s that simple: Caring Contacts for Suicide Prevention is for providers and client-facing staff. It summarizes the Caring Contacts background and evidence-base, as well as, the core principles to delivering Caring Contacts via text message.
- Read about Caring Contacts as an evidence-based suicide prevention intervention on our Implementation Resources page.
Acknowledgments
The Caring Contacts toolkit was a collaboration UW CSPAR, UW Clinical Information Research Group (CIRG), and implementation experts at St. Luke’s Health System and The Idaho Crisis Line. We would like to thank the founding companies of Face the Fight—USAA, the Humana Foundation, and Reach Resilience. 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.
