Provider Tools

Assessment and Management of Patients at Risk for Suicide Pocket Card (2024)
This tool helps guide clinical decision making in the treatment of patients at risk for suicide. (Accessible descriptive text for the charts can be found in the Clinical Practice Guideline for Assessment and Management of Patients at Risk for Suicide, Appendix H, page 128).

Lethal Means Safety Counseling: Recommendations for Providers (2024)
Provider fact sheet with information on how to counsel patients at risk for suicide on reducing their access to lethal means, as well as helpful firearm means safety recommendations and provider resources

Patient Tools

Safety Plan Worksheet (2024)
The Safety Plan Worksheet, designed to be printed or saved electronically, enables health care providers and patients to collaboratively identify a patient’s stressful triggers, warning signs, sources of support, coping strategies and ways to access health care and crisis assistance

Crisis Response Plan (2024)
Printable, collaborative safety planning tool for trained providers and their patients to create a dynamic plan to reduce patient risk for suicidal behavior

Family Tool

Suicide Prevention: A Guide for Military and Veteran Families (2024)
Fact sheet for families explaining risk and protective factors, warning signs for suicide, and information about treatment and how to seek help

Line Leader Tools

Suicide Risk: A Guide for Department of Defense Line Leaders (2024)
Fact sheet for line leaders to help identify and respond to their service members who may be at risk for suicide

Reducing Access to Firearms:A Suicide Prevention Guide for Line Leaders (2024)
Fact sheet with information to help commanders manage service members’ suicide risk with best practices for reducing access to lethal means