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SafeSide works alongside health and community organisations at every stage of the grant process — from scoping the right programs for your setting to providing ready-to-use language for your application. Our programs are eligible for a wide range of suicide prevention, workforce development, and mental health system grants.
SafeSide Prevention Founder and University of Rochester Professor Tony Pisani provides an overview of Suicide Prevention in Systems (Pisani, Moutier, & Stahl, 2021; Pisani & Boudreaux, 2023), and the programs SafeSide offers to advance this approach - useful grounding for any grant application.
Programs Eligible for Grant Funding
SafeSide CARE
Workforce education that builds a shared language and structured approach to suicide risk identification and response, across clinical and non-clinical teams. Includes a real-time evaluation dashboard and ongoing learning — not a one-time training.
Core Connections
A group-based program that strengthens connection, help-seeking norms, and shared responsibility for wellbeing across the whole workforce. Tested in a cluster RCT demonstrating reductions in suicide risk, depression, and work-related problems.
SafeSide Restore
A structured network supporting leaders and organisations to respond to suicide-related incidents in ways that promote healing, learning, and continuous improvement — rather than blame and compliance alone.
Our Faculty
Our faculty are your partners throughout this implementation and training. SafeSide Live Learning sessions provide direct access to SafeSide faculty, with staff trained in SafeSide CARE available to ask questions about challenges in their day-to-day work.
Tony Pisani, PhD
Primary care psychologist, family therapist, and suicide prevention researcher at the University of Rochester Center for the Study and Prevention of Suicide. Tony spent 10 years developing and road-testing the SafeSide framework and educational methods.
Read more about Tony's story.
Kristina Zurich
A gifted teacher dedicated to helping people see the many reasons they have for living. She keeps the team thinking about what patients experience in the health and behavioral health care system.
Read more about Kristina's story.
Anna Defayette, PhD
Mentored by Tony at the University of Rochester, Anna is a suicide prevention researcher and clinical psychologist. Her passion for the SafeSide Framework was sparked while participating in a SafeSide workshop, finding that the key principles are deeply aligned with her own clinical approach. Anna joined SafeSide because she is passionate about making research findings more accessible to others and using data to improve everyday clinical practice.
Sarah Donovan, PsyD
Sarah's journey with SafeSide began when she rolled out SafeSide in a large youth-serving organisation, building on her 15-year career as a psychologist working with youth and families. Relying on clinical experience and a passion for implementation, Sarah and her team develop programs and services that are impactful, innovative, and evidence-based.
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Writing a Grant Right Now?
If you’re writing a grant right now, here’s a sample text you can adapt and paste into your application.
[Organization Name] will partner with SafeSide Prevention to deliver workforce education aligned with the Zero Suicide framework, supporting [Organization Name] to implement suicide prevention practices across roles and settings. Education will focus on building a shared framework, strengthening workforce confidence and consistency, and supporting ongoing learning rather than one-time training. SafeSide Prevention will work alongside [Organization Name] to support leadership engagement, integration of lived experience, and continuous quality improvement.
SafeSide’s InPlace® Learning offers a scalable, sustainable approach to suicide prevention workforce education, which is built on a robust foundation of research that began over 10 years ago and continues to evolve.
The programs represent a next-generation expansion of the initial brief training program, demonstrating objectively rated improvement in assessment documentation (Pisani et al., 2012). The program was adapted online (Cross et al., 2019), tested in primary care (Pisani et al., 2021), and enhanced with a lived experience co-trainer, demonstrations, and a video-guided group learning approach previously validated with veterans’ substance-use counsellors (Conner et al., 2013).
In this approach, teams work through specially designed video modules together with a "host" who convenes the group. The content is within the videos, so the host does not require specialised knowledge or training. Team-based learning builds social capital (Burgess et al., 2020), not just knowledge, which supports deeper learning.
Regular Q&A sessions with clinical and lived experience faculty and other networking opportunities allow staff to have contact with peers outside their sphere, which means they are more likely to adopt new practices (Greenhalgh et al., 2004).
The InPlace® Workshop has demonstrated strong educational efficacy and perceived relevance among mental health professionals, youth services workers (Donovan et al., 2023), and primary care trainees (Centeno, 2020).
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