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Phone Numbers:
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Switchboard: 519-646-6100
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Crisis:
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Reachout: 519-433-2023 or 1-866-933-2023
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Address:
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c/o Shauna Graf
Parkwood Institute Mental Health Care Bldg
550 Wellington Rd S
London, ON
N6C 0A7
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Map
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Intersection:
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Wellington Rd S and Commissioners Rd E
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Hours:
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Administration: Mon-Fri 8:30am-4:30pm
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Executives:
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Jodi Younger - Vice President Patient Care and Quality
St. Joseph's Health Care London
jodi.younger@sjhc.london.on.ca
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Service Description:
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A free resource, created in collaboration with Niagara Region Public Health, that has been designed to support organizations that are not a formal part of the health care sector, by providing them with tools to enhance suicide prevention within their own organizations
Based on seven components, including:- creating a leadership-driven safety-oriented culture
- develop a competent, confident, and caring workforce
- identify and assess suicide risk among people receiving care
- ensuring every person has a suicide care management plan, or pathway to care, that is both timely and adequate to meet his or her needs
- use of effective, evidence-based treatments that directly target suicidality
- provide continuous contact and support, especially after acute care
- apply a data-driven quality improvement approach to inform system changes that will lead to improved patient outcomes and better care for those at risk
Promotes a competent, confident, and caring workforce in suicide prevention, intervention and postvention
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Eligibility / Target Population:
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Community-based organizations
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Languages:
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English
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Language Notes:
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Interpretation available upon request * advance notice appreciated
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