Thank you for your interest in completing an extended pre-survey for the National Guidelines. Your thoughts and opinions about how the National Guidelines may impact your workplace are vital for our evaluation efforts. This extended pre-survey should take about 5-7 minutes to complete and has no correct answers, so please answer honestly. Your responses will be kept completely confidential. Thank you for your support!
In order to evaluate the effectiveness of the National Guidelines, our team would like you to create a unique ID for your responses. This will allow us to match your responses across surveys. Please take a moment to respond to the following question.
What is your work email address? *
Please include your full work email address.
The following questions focus on your company or organization’s culture regarding suicide prevention.
Choose the options that best reflects the extent to which these statements are true for your workplace.
Our wellness and safety programs include mental health literacy and emotional resilience training.
Leadership and management understand the link between physical and mental health and promote an integrated approach to employee wellness.
Leadership reassures those who are experiencing mental health challenges or overwhelming life experiences that they “have their back”.
The following questions ask about your workplace’s efforts to implement the National Guidelines.
To what extent has your organization prioritized the following nine practices from the National Guidelines. Please rate the priority level for each practice at your workplace.
Bold leadership that cultivates a caring culture focused on community well-being
Communication that increases awareness of understanding suicide and reduces fear
Employee self-care through screening and stress/crisis inoculation planning
Training that builds a stratified suicide prevention response program specialized by workplace role
Peer support and well-being ambassadors
Mental health and crisis resources that are vetted and promoted
Risk mitigation that addresses access to lethal means and legal issues
Crisis mitigation that includes accommodation, re-integration, and postvention
Briefly, how has your workplace begun to implement the National Guidelines?
How confident are you that your workplace can adopt and utilize the National Guidelines?
What barriers, if any, exist for your workplace implementing suicide prevention strategies? (Choose all that apply)
What method(s) would work best to spread awareness of mental health issues or suicide prevention strategies in your workplace? (Choose all that apply)
This section asks about suicide experiences in your workplace. Please answer to the best of your knowledge.
Has someone in your workplace experienced a suicide death in the last 12 months?
What is your workplace’s connection(s) to suicide death(s) in the last 12 months? (Choose all that apply)
Has someone in your workplace experienced a suicide death in the last 10 years?
What is your workplace’s connection(s) to suicide death(s) in the last 10 years? (Choose all that apply)
These questions ask about your knowledge regarding suicide experiences resources and strategies.
Do you know how to access the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline?
Do you know how to access the Crisis Text Line?
Are you actively promoting crisis resources?
Which one(s) are you promoting?
This final question focuses on any other information that you would like to share about suicide prevention in your workplace.
Do you have any other thoughts about the National Guidelines/suicide prevention strategies in your workplace that were not covered by the above questions?
Thank you for taking the time to provide feedback for the National Guidelines. We value your thoughts and opinions about this vital tool.
