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Scope Note: How to build, sustain, and evaluate different types of grassroots, statewide, multi-disciplinary and/or collaborative groups/partnerships, in general, and specifically related to suicide prevention efforts.

Building bridges between residential and nonresidential services in systems of care: Summary of the Special Forum held at the 2006 Georgetown University Training Institutes
URL: http://www.pal-tech.com/web/callForPapers/handouts/Building_Bridges_Between_Residential.pdf
Describes Building Bridges Summit (Omaha,NE, June 2006) and service delivery strategies.
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Call to Action to Prevent Youth Suicide
URL: http://www.nasponline.org/advocacy/suicidecalltoaction.aspx
This webpage describes the problem of suicide in youth and the leadership role school psychologists should play in collaborative efforts involving schools, communities, and mental health professionals to prevent suicide.
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Coalition Guide
URL: http://www.sophe.org/healthy_communities.cfm
This series of fact sheets is designed to assist and guide communities and leaders through the process of building a coalition. Titles include: Before you build your coalition; Formation; Implementation; Maintenance; and Institutionalization.
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Coalition sustainability: Long-term successes and lessons learned
URL: http://www.joe.org/joe/2002february/a2.html
Journal of Extension. 2002 Feb; 40(1). One of the USDA youth-at-risk projects was designed to develop local-level coalitions to address the needs of youth-at-risk in a rural midwestern state. This article describes the impact several of these coalitions are still making, 10 years after the onset of the initial project and 5 years after cessation of grant funding.
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Collaboration Math: Enhancing the Effectiveness of Multidisciplinary Collaboration
URL: http://www.eatbettermovemore.org/tool_collmath.html
Collaboration Math describes the application of this Prevention Institute tool at the University of California Berkeley's Traffic Safety Center, illustrating how multidisciplinary groups can use this tool to increase effective collaboration.
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Developing community capacity
URL: http://ww2.wkkf.org/DesktopModules/WKF.00_DmaSupport/ViewDoc.aspx?LanguageID=0&CID=149&ListID=28&ItemID=10656&fld=PDFFile
Module one of "Sustaining Community-Based Initiatives". The module is designed to improve the community�s capacity for positive change by promoting citizen participation, action and leadership.
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Developing effective coalitions: An eight step guide
URL: http://www.preventioninstitute.org/component/jlibrary/article/id-104/127.html
Examples given in this paper are specific to injury prevention coalitions, but most can be applied to coalitions working on a variety of health-related issues. This paper is to be used as a general guide. Each coalition will find ways of interpreting the eight steps to best suit its own needs. A version of this paper was published in Mary Ellen Wurzbach's Community Health Education and Promotion: A Guide to Program Design and Evaluation (2nd ed. Gaithersburg, Md: Aspen Publishers; 2002:144-161).
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Engaging primary care practitioners in suicide prevention (Adolescents)
URL: http://www.sprc.org/grantees/pdf/2006/Wintersteen_Engaging.pdf
State/Tribal/Adolescents at Risk Suicide Prevention Grantee Technical Assistance Meeting. December 12–14, 2006, North Bethesda, MD. Discusses adolescent suicide prevention training modules for primary care practitioners.
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Essential tips for successful collaboration
URL: http://www.nsba.org/MainMenu/SchoolHealth/SelectedNSBAPublications/OtherTopics/EssentialTipsforSuccessfulCollaboration.aspx
This document represents a synthesis of the key lessons learned throughout a five-year initiative driven by a successful, national-level collaborative around school-based teen pregnancy prevention. It describes the key elements that contribute to the development and sustainability of successful collaborations around complex issues.
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IHS Suicide Prevention Initiative
URL: http://www.sprc.org/grantees/statetribe/2009/PDF/10AWeahkee.pdf
This presentation, delivered at the January 2009 grantee meeting describes how the Indian Health Service Prevention program has partnered with tribes and tribal organizations, federal, state and local agencies and others to develop and implement suicide prevention initiatives.
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Incorporating suicide attempt survivors in state & local suicide prevention efforts (SPRC Discussion Series)
URL: http://www.sprc.org/traininginstitute/disc_series/disc_8.asp
A presentation on incorporating suicide attempt survivors in prevention efforts. The Research to Practice Webinar webpage contains an author biography, PowerPoint slides, and an audio file of the discussion.
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Legacy Wheel
URL: http://www.promoteprevent.org/implementing/sustainability/legacy-wheel
This online manual educates the Center grantees on eight key program development areas: relationships among community entities (agencies, coalitions, schools, and parent groups), and between individuals; community awareness of mental health or youth violence issues; leadership across and within systems; policies and procedures; the use of evaluation data in decision making; staff competencies and other program capacities; strategic planning approaches; and funding streams.
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Shifting the Focus: An Interdisciplinary Framework for Advancing Violence Prevention
URL: http://www.preventioninstitute.org/component/jlibrary/article/id-47/127.html
The framework that emerged from this two day forum demonstrates the ability of governmental agencies to move beyond institutional barriers and conceptual differences to work together to more effectively prevent violence. This framework that can serve as a model from the local to national level for cross-disciplinary collaboration. Funded in part by a grant from The California Wellness Foundation (TCWF).
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Suicide prevention community assessment tool
URL: http://www.sprc.org/library/catool.pdf
Adapted from: Community Assessment Tool developed by the Suicide Prevention Program at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. This assessment tool is targeted for "prevention networks," coalitions of change-oriented organizations and individuals working together to promote suicide prevention. It is comprised of four sections intended to gather information on: a) each community addressed; b) all agencies and individuals within the prevention network; c) target populations; and d) community suicide risk factors and prevention resources.
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Suicide Prevention Toolkit
URL: http://www.mhawisconsin.org/content/introductiontoolkit.asp
This online resource collection contains a large number of materials useful for starting a youth suicide prevention program. They are listed under nine different topic sections, including making the case for developing a program, coalition building, youth screening programs and classroom curricula, gatekeeper training, crisis planning and postvention, evaluation tools, and information on obtaining funding.
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The tension of turf: Making it work for the coalition
URL: http://www.preventioninstitute.org/pdf/TURF_1S.pdf
Building on earlier work of the Prevention Institute, which described the coalition start-up process in Developing Effective Coalitions: An Eight Step Guide, this document was developed in response to something commonly experienced within coalitions: turf struggle. Turf issues that commonly arise among coalition members are explored and a set of recommendations for limiting the negative aspects of turf struggles is offered.
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