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Introducing gun safety into health care providers’ checklists to prevent teen suicide

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Mental health services researchers at UMass Amherst and elsewhere assessed the needs of stakeholders who would implement a new approach to promoting a program, the Firearm Safety Check. They found some support for promoting firearm safety in pediatric primary care as a universal suicide prevention strategy for adolescents.