About
The NIMH-funded Suicide Care Research Center (SCRC) is an interdisciplinary team working to improve the design and delivery of suicide care for adolescents and young adults in outpatient medical settings.
Main Challenge
Many adolescents and young adults disclose their suicidality to providers who are not prepared to offer treatment and instead must refer to the emergency department when outpatient care is appropriate. This overwhelms medical systems and creates negative experiences for patients, their loved ones and providers.
Approach
This five year center will support 12 studies to improve the design and delivery of suicide specific care for suicidal adolescents and young adults in outpatient medical settings.
Studies will use human centered design and optimization methods to co-design interventions with healthcare providers, adolescent and young adult patients, and their families to make coordinated improvements across the suicide care pathway from assessment to treatment and recovery. The Center will conduct one full size optimization trial, three exploratory studies, and eight pilot studies.
Questions?
Learn more by visiting the SCRC website or emailing [email protected].
