Aim 8

Understanding and Engaging Systems

This aim focuses on studying systems and building the necessary infrastructure (community partnerships) to implement programs and initiatives through needs assessments and formal and informal memorandums of understanding (MOUs) across several settings (e.g., universities, behavioral health organizations, hospitals, advisory boards, state-level entities). Building the needed infrastructure involves identifying needs at different system levels and providing any needed education, technical assistance, and support to these suicide prevention advocates in an attempt to create a united effort and facilitate the integration of programs and initiatives into community infrastructure.

Publications

Karver, M. S. (2020). Question the Assumptions: A Len Bickman Festschrift Contribution. Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, 47, 867.

Bickman, L., Lambert, E. W., Karver, M. S., & Andrade, A. R. (1998). Two low-cost measures of child and adolescent functioning for services research. Evaluation and Program Planning, 21(3), 263-275.

Bickman, L., Karver, M. S., & Schut, L.J.A. (1997). Clinician reliability and accuracy in judging appropriate level of care. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 65(3), 515-520.

Salzer, M., Nixon, C., Schut, J., Karver, M. S., & Bickman, L. (1997). Validating quality indicators: Quality as relationship between structure, process, and outcome. Evaluation Review, 21(3), 292-309.

Lyons, J. S., Cook, J. A., Ruth, A. R., Karver, M. S., & Slagg, N. B. (1996). Service delivery using consumer staff in a mobile crisis assessment program. Community Mental Health Journal, 32(1), 33-40.

Presentations

Le, K., Goo, L., Browne, N., Whalen, A., Dennis, S.,1 Evans, L., Pandya, C. S., Gryglewicz, K., & Karver, M. S. (2025, April). Predictors of Zero Suicide implementation and behaviors in mental healthcare settings. Presentation to the 4th annual meeting of the virtual Suicide Research Symposium.

Gryglewicz, K., & Karver, M. (2024, June). Zero Suicide Model: The TRAIN Essential Element of Suicide Care. Invited panel discussion at the SAMHSA Suicide Prevention Conference, Washington, DC.

Karver, M. S., Le, K., Webster, A., Schuck, A., & Cao, E. (2024, January). Suicide Prevention: Where we have been and new directions. Keynote Speaker Presentation to the 6th annual meeting of the virtual Activist Lab Boot Camp.

Bohn, J., Karver, M., Roggenbaum, S., Sever, A., & Agrawal, K. (2024, January). Suicide Prevention Panel. Panel discussion member at the 6th annual meeting of the virtual Activist Lab Boot Camp.

Karver, M.S. (2019, December). Suicide Prevention: Research and Recommendations for Working with At-risk Youth. Invited paper presented for the annual David Gallagher Memorial Lecture at the NYU Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Grand Rounds, New York, NY.

Borntrager, L., Gryglewicz, K., Karver, M.S., & Kersey, S. (2019, October). Building a ‘safety net’ of community providers: Utilizing the systems of care framework for developing a community resource asset map for suicide prevention within a healthcare setting. Poster session presented at the 2019 IASR/AFSP International Summit on Suicide Research, Miami, FL.

Jordan-Arthur, B., Gryglewicz, K., Romero, G., Witmeier, M., Kutash, K., & Karver, M. S. (2013, April). The application of the interactive systems framework to suicide prevention: findings from the Florida Youth Suicide Prevention Project. In M. Karver (Chair), The application of systems frameworks in the examination of attitudes and perceptions contributing to successful youth suicide prevention program implementation: Experiences from three Garrett Lee Smith Funded States. Symposium paper presented at the American Association of Suicidology Conference.

Karver, M. S. (2013, April). Chair. Chair for symposium entitled The application of systems frameworks in the examination of attitudes and perceptions contributing to successful youth suicide prevention program implementation: Experiences from three Garrett Lee Smith Funded States. Symposium paper presented at the American Association of Suicidology Conference.

Karver, M. S., Brown, R., Gryglywicz, K., Witmeier, M., Elzy, M., Dean, M., Labouliere, C., Jordan-Arthur, B., Chen, J., & Kutash, K. (2011, October). Florida's Suicide Prevention Plan: Does it work?. Invited workshop presented at the 2011 Florida Prevention Conference, Orlando, FL.

Tarquini, S. J., Labouliere, C. D., Totura, C. M. Wienke, Kutash, K., & Karver, M. S. (2007, December). A SAMHSA initiative: The evaluation of a multiple component suicide prevention program. Poster presented at the SAMHSA/CMHS Youth Suicide Prevention Conference, Portland, OR.

Tarquini, S. J., Labouliere, C. D., Totura, C. M. Wienke, Kutash, K., & Karver, M. S. (2007, November). A SAMHSA initiative: The evaluation of a multiple component suicide prevention program. Poster presented at the Governor’s Office of Drug Control and the Statewide Office of Suicide Prevention’s 2007 Florida Suicide Prevention Conference, Tampa, FL.

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