Current Referral Source
Our program would not be possible without our Referral Sources who help to save lives by referring youth to our program. Referral Sources can be parents, guardians, caregivers, school mental health staff, youth advocates, doctors, and more!
Our goal is to make the referral process as seamless and easy to navigate as possible! Click here to make a referral.
English Referral Documents
SWF Authorization for Release of Information and Waiver of Liability Fillable
Spanish Referral Documents
SWF Referral Form/FORMULARIO DE DERIVACIÓN
SWF Authorization for Release of Information and Waiver of Liability Fillable
SWF – General Brochure 2022 – Spanish
English Family Handouts
Finding a Good Fit With A Provider
Understanding Insurance for Guardians and Caregivers
Understanding Mental Health Credentials
What Is A Therapist? (Elementary Age)
What Is A Therapist? (High School Age)
Spanish Family Handouts
Finding a Good Fit With A Provider/Cómo encontrar un proveedor que se adecúe a sus necesidades
Interviewing A Provider/Cómo entrevistar a un posible proveedor
Therapy and Privacy/Terapia y privacidad
Understanding Insurance for Guardians and Caregivers/Comprender el seguro para tutores y cuidadores
Understanding Mental Health Credentials/Cómo entender las credenciales de salud mental
What Are These Documents?/¿Para qué son estos documentos?
What Is A Therapist? (Elementary Age) /¿Qué es un terapeuta?
What Is A Therapist? (High School Age) /¿Qué es un terapeuta?
Colorado National Collaborative
Colorado Office of Suicide Prevention
National Institute of Mental Health: Suicide Prevention
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Suicide Prevention
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration: Suicide Prevention
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline Call 988 or text TALK to 8255
Colorado Crisis Services 1-844-493-8255 or Text “TALK” to 38255
Patient Health Questionnaire 9 (PHQ-9)
The Columbia Lighthouse Project (Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS))
Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale: Very Young Child/Cognitively Impaired – Lifetime Recent
Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale: Very Young Child/Cognitively Impaired – Since Last Contact
Virtual Hope Box (Android, iOS)
The Virtual Hope Box (VHB) designed for use by clients and their behavioral health providers as an accessory to treatment. The VHB contains simple tools to help clients with coping, relaxation, distraction, and positive thinking. Clients and providers can work together to personalize the VHB content on the client’s own smartphone according to the client’s specific needs.
notOK (Android, iOS)
The notOK is an app that contains a large red button that, when tapped, alerts close trusted contacts that the user is in urgent need of help. An alert is sent to pre-selected friends, family members, and supporters with a GPS location and a message letting them know that the user needs them to reach out.
Suicide Safe (Android, iOS)
Created by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) primarily for health care providers, it gives users the tools to learn how to work alongside those who might be struggling with suicide ideation. The app also contains lists for facility location services and available resources.
Suicide Safety Plan (Android, iOS)
Suicide Safety Plan is a safety plan app that allows users to have their plan right in the palm of their hand. The app allows clients to program important information, including personal warning signs, coping strategies, contacts, and more. It additionally allows clients to easily contact help and provides them with educational resources.
“A Friend Asks” (Android, iOS)
A FREE app that helps provide the information, tools and resources to help a friend (or yourself) who may be struggling with thoughts of suicide. Education is the key to prevention and with information like this as close as your smartphone; you could help save a life!
Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality (CAMS)
The Office of Suicide Prevention has funding to provide CAMS training to Colorado mental health professionals. If you are a behavioral health provider interested in participating, sign up to receive more information here.
Suicide Prevention Resource Center: Training
Zero Suicide: Counseling on Access to Lethal Means
The National Academies of Sciences Engineering Medicine: The National Academics Press
Speaking of Suicide: Language Matters: Committed Suicide vs. Completed Suicide vs. Died by Suicide
National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention: COVID Guidance: Screening for Suicide Risk during Telehealth Visits
National Center for Injury Prevention and Control: Preventing Suicide: A Technical Package of Policy, Programs and Practices
National Institute of Mental Health: 2012 National Strategy for Suicide Prevention: GOALS AND OBJECTIVES FOR ACTION
Human Rights Campaign: Project THRIVE Webinars
Mental Health Technology Transfer Center Network
Improving Cultural Competency for Behavioral Health Professionals
Ring the Alarm The Crisis of Black Youth Suicide in America
Preventing Suicide and Self-Harm Among Black Youth
Suicide Prevention Resource Center: Culturally Competent Approaches
Layla F. Saad – Trainings and Podcast
Steven D Kniffley Jr., PsyD, MPA, ABPP
Dr. Jennifer Mullan, Decolonizing Therapy
Decolonizing mental health: The importance of an oppression-focused mental health system
Join Mental Health America as we have open conversations about mental health. We’re a group of people who want to change the way our communities talk about mental health. On this podcast, we share our lives, fight in the open, and work together to just figure things out.
Why do people self-injure? And what is the best way to respond when someone tells us they self-injure? Clinical psychologist Dr. Nicholas Westers of the International Society for the Study of Self-Injury (ISSS) interviews the leading experts in the field of self-injury as well as individuals with lived experience of self-injury and parents and family members of those who have self-injured. This podcast is meant to be a resource for parents, professionals, and people with lived experience.
Suicide Prevention Resource Center: Faith Communities
English
العربية
简体中文
Nederlands
Français
Deutsch
Italiano
Português
Русский
Español