Administrative Core

The University of Washington Practice-Based Suicide Prevention Research Center is a multidisciplinary collaboration to improve outcomes for suicidal adolescents and young adults in outpatient medical settings in ways that enhance therapeutic alliance and increase self-efficacy of providers, patients and families to manage suicide risk. The Center, led by clinical researchers who treat suicidal patients in partnership with physicians, informatics researchers and operational experts, takes a stakeholder-based co-design approach integrating human centered design and multi-phasic optimization to develop highly effective and efficient interventions for the outpatient medical setting. The Administrative Core will be directed by Dr. Comtois. The Administrative Core consists of a Team Science Core, Policy Core, and four Advisory Boards organized by an Operations Team and overseen by a multidisciplinary Steering Committee. Central to the co-design mission of the Center is the Expert Research Advisory Board as well as the Lived Experience, Outpatient Health Care Provider, and Policy and Financing Advisory Boards who will advise the Center, faculty, and Collaborating Scholars from disciplines new to suicide prevention. The Administrative Core has the following aims: (1) Facilitate communications and coordination of Center faculty, the larger UW community and our stakeholder partners through the Coordination Core (Operations Team and Steering Committee led by Dr. Comtois), (2) Provide mentorship and research opportunities for Emerging and Advanced Collaborating Scholars through the R03 pilot suicide care research program in the Team Science Core (led by Drs. Areán and Darnell), (3) Collaborate with the Zero Suicide Institute, National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention, and Suicide Prevention Resource Center housed in the Education Development Center through the Policy Core (led by Dr. Julie Goldstein Grumet), and (4) Evaluate Center progress in meeting stated goals to improve the quality of care and suicide outcomes in outpatient medical settings across the suicide care pathway with usable, feasible, and optimized solutions (led by Dr. Comtois and the Operations Team with consultation from Dr Areán and pediatric and family medicine physicians and Center investigators, Drs. Laura Richardson and Ian Bennett).