Preventing Youth Suicide Peer Learning Exchange
Youth suicide is a growing problem nationwide, and children's hospitals play a central role in keeping kids safe.
The Children’s Hospital Association (CHA) created the Preventing Youth Suicide Peer Learning Exchange in 2026 to expand access to pediatric specific suicide prevention resources with anyone who provides care for children and youth. The Peer Learning Exchange offers:
- Webinars featuring hospital-led strategies and lessons learned
- Opportunities to dig deeper through follow-up discussions
- A multidisciplinary online community to seek feedback and peer resources
- Curated articles, tools, and resources grounded in evidence-based care
- Support from CHA staff to connect you to people and resources
- Ways to highlight your hospital or community’s work in suicide care and prevention
The exchange builds on the Preventing Youth Suicide National Collaborative’s efforts and aims to continue supporting hospitals that began this work within the collaborative, amplify their learnings, and facilitate new collaboration among children’s hospitals and community partners.
Join the community
Learn, network, and start a conversation with pediatric hospital peers working to better care for children at risk for suicide. Log into your CHA account to participate.
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Resources
Preventing Youth Suicide National Collaborative
The collaborative is part of Children Hospital Association's ongoing work to address the youth mental health crisis.
Implementing Caring Contacts to Prevent Youth Suicide
Hear from three leading children’s hospitals as they share experiences with Caring Contacts youth suicide prevention intervention.
How a National Approach Transformed Youth Suicide Prevention
Learn how the Preventing Youth Suicide National Collaborative has improved the care of children at risk of suicide.
Preventing Youth Suicide With Evidence-Based Care
Discover how a quality improvement initiative using the Zero Suicide Framework decreased adolescent patients’ suicidal thoughts by 54% at discharge.
What Youth Suicide Data Tells Us About Prevention Gaps
The first classifications for kids at risk reveal why some fall through the cracks and how systems can support them sooner.
Youth Suicide Intervention Clinic Has 100% Success Rate
The pilot clinic trains future providers to save lives today.
