Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 9, September 1, 2024
(1) Each LMHA,
in collaboration with community partners, shall develop a Response Protocol
identifying tribes, community partners, programs, individuals and others within
the community that may be notified of a suspected youth suicide or mobilized to
provide post-intervention response to a suspected youth suicide.
(2) At minimum, the Response Protocol shall:
(a) Identify the community partners and
youth-serving entities, which shall be involved in developing and implementing
the Response Protocol;
(b) Identify
the roles, responsibilities, services, and available resources of each
community partner involved in implementing the Response Protocol including the
immediate, intermediate and long-term postvention response;
(c) Identify the process for notification to
local systems that had contact with the decedent individual in the event of a
suspected youth suicide. This may include:
(A)
Sample scripts for communication of death notification to local youth-serving
entities;
(B) A description of the
process to determine what information should be included in each
notification.
(d)
Identify how a Postvention Response Lead shall be identified for responding to
each suspected youth suicide. The Postvention Response Lead may vary, depending
on the circumstances and may be an individual designated by a tribe, school
district or university, the LMHA, or another community partner. The Postvention
Response Lead is responsible for coordinating postvention response and the
notification process to local systems that had contact with the decedent in the
event of a suspected youth suicide. The Postvention Response Lead for the
Response Protocol also may be the Communication Lead;
(e) Establish and disseminate the postvention
notification and response process among community partners and youth-serving
entities or individuals connected to the decedent, including outreach to
families, families of choice, and tribes, if applicable; and
(f) Identify the evaluation process used by
community partners to debrief and assess the effectiveness of each suspected
youth suicide response and the mechanism to adjust processes, as indicated, in
the future. The evaluation process shall include an assessment of the
effectiveness of meeting the needs of grieving families and families of choice;
friends or others with relationships with the decedent; and the wider network
of community members impacted by the suspected youth suicide;
(g) Identify how the Primary LMHA will notify
other LMHAs linked to the decedent through residency, employment, school
attendance, or significant family or social ties.
(3) The LMHA shall document the completed
Response Protocol in writing and submit to the Coordinator.
(4) At least annually on or before December
15th, each LMHA in collaboration with community partners shall review the
Response Protocol to debrief and evaluate the protocol's effectiveness in the
past year, and provide a rationale for all revisions to the
Coordinator.
(5) For the purposes
of Response Protocols, the Coordinator shall:
(a) Review the response protocols submitted
by the LMHAs;
(b) Review any
revisions to the response protocols submitted annually; and
(c) Provide feedback to the LMHA and offer
technical assistance on best practices for development and implementation of
the protocols.
