Child Safety Learning Collaborative Case Studies

State teams participating in the Children’s Safety Network’s Child Safety Learning Collaborative (CSLC) are strengthening child safety systems and preventing injury and violence through partnership, data-driven strategies, and quality improvement and innovation. These case studies highlight how Louisiana, Tennessee, and Kentucky expanded evidence-based suicide prevention practices, strengthened statewide partnerships, improved surveillance and training systems, and developed sustainable approaches to supporting youth mental health and preventing suicide.

• Louisiana: Building a Statewide Suicide Prevention Collaborative highlights how partners across public health, education, and behavioral health came together to create Louisiana’s first statewide suicide prevention collaborative, expand gatekeeper trainings, and use surveillance data to guide prevention efforts.
• Tennessee: Sustaining Statewide Suicide Prevention Efforts showcases Tennessee’s long-term commitment to youth suicide prevention through statewide partnerships, use of the Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE), youth impactor trainings that reached nearly 12,000 youth, and implementation of Sources of Strength in schools.
• Kentucky: Institutionalizing Youth Suicide Prevention in Healthcare Systems examines how Kentucky integrated evidence-based suicide prevention practices into pediatric healthcare systems through Zero Suicide, Question-Persuade-Refer (QPR) trainings, and organizational policy changes that strengthened statewide capacity for early intervention and support.