{"id":3529,"date":"2023-09-22T10:33:27","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T14:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/ncmatters\/?p=3529"},"modified":"2025-08-25T11:38:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T15:38:53","slug":"maternal-suicide-and-risk-assessment-toolkit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/ncmatters\/2023\/09\/maternal-suicide-and-risk-assessment-toolkit\/","title":{"rendered":"Maternal Suicide and Risk Assessment Toolkit"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>Suicide and overdose combined are the\u00a0<strong>leading cause\u00a0<\/strong>of maternal death in the first year following childbirth. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/ncmatters\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1000\/2023\/09\/22-6996-MED-MaternalSuicide_Toolkit_Final-2.pdf\">Access the maternal suicide and risk assessment toolkit here.<\/a><\/h6>\n<p><span class=\"TextRun SCXW86511913 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW86511913 BCX0\">Suggested citation: NC MATTERS Maternal Suicide and Risk Assessment Toolkit. <\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW86511913 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW86511913 BCX0\">Copyright \u00a9 202<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW86511913 BCX0\">3<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW86511913 BCX0\"> NC Maternal Mental Health MATTERS<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW86511913 BCX0\"> all<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW86511913 BCX0\"> rights reserved. Version 1 <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW86511913 BCX0\">January <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW86511913 BCX0\">2023. Funding provided by the <\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW86511913 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW86511913 BCX0\">Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) and NC DHHS. Author<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW86511913 BCX0\">s<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW86511913 BCX0\">: <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW86511913 BCX0\">Burns, K., Frisch, C., <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW86511913 BCX0\">Nwefo<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW86511913 BCX0\">, R., Smolko, J., Saxer, K., Kimmel, M.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP SCXW86511913 BCX0\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:0,&quot;335559737&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:279}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suicide and overdose combined are the\u00a0leading cause\u00a0of maternal death in the first year following childbirth. Access the maternal suicide and risk assessment toolkit here. Suggested citation: NC MATTERS Maternal Suicide and Risk Assessment Toolkit. Copyright \u00a9 2023 NC Maternal Mental Health MATTERS all rights reserved. Version 1 January 2023. Funding provided by the Health Resources &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/ncmatters\/2023\/09\/maternal-suicide-and-risk-assessment-toolkit\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Maternal Suicide and Risk Assessment Toolkit\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61261,"featured_media":3994,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-toolkits","odd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Maternal Suicide and Risk Assessment Toolkit | NC Maternal Mental Health MATTERS<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/ncmatters\/2023\/09\/maternal-suicide-and-risk-assessment-toolkit\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Maternal Suicide and Risk Assessment Toolkit | NC Maternal Mental Health MATTERS\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Suicide and overdose combined are the\u00a0leading cause\u00a0of maternal death in the first year following childbirth. 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