Credits and acknowledgements

Suicide.ca launched in fall 2020. It was developed by Association québécoise de prévention du suicide (AQPS) and funded by the Government of Quebec’s Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux and is a key component of Quebec’s digital suicide prevention strategy.

We would like to acknowledge the work of the many professionals who contributed to the deployment of this platform and thank everyone involved in getting it off the ground*.

Scientific work

Summary of practices and needs
 

 

Literature review
 

 

French translation and validation of SIDAS (Suicide Ideation Attribute Scale)
 

  • Cécile Bardon, Associate Director of CRISE and Professor, Department of Psychology, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
  • Geoffrey Gauvin, Lecturer and Researcher, École des Psychologues Praticiens in Paris and Psychologist
  • Louis-Philippe Côté, Suicide Prevention and Program Assessment Consultant


Development of the suicide.ca self-assessment tool


  • Cécile Bardon, Associate Director of CRISE and Professor, Department of Psychology, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
  • Geoffrey Gauvin, Lecturer and Researcher, École des Psychologues Praticiens in Paris and Psychologist
  • Louis-Philippe Côté, Suicide Prevention and Program Assessment Consultant


Ethical framework for the digital strategy and ethical advice


  • Brian Mishara, Director of CRISE and Professor, Department of Psychology, UQAM
  • Anh Tu Tran, Research Support Officer, CRISE
  • Carl-Maria Mörch, Associate Professor in Psychology (UQAM), researcher in applied ethics of AI (Algora Lab, UdeM-Mila)


Chief scientific advisor for the digital strategy
 

Suicide.ca contents

Development of psychoeducational content
 


With contributions from
 

  • Éric Arseneault, Clinical Coordinator, Centre de prévention du suicide de Québec
  • Cécile Bardon, Associate Director of CRISE and Professor, Department of Psychology, UQAM
  • Bruno Collard, Clinical Director, Revivre
  • Jean-Luc Daoust, Head of Grief Support Services, Suicide Action Montréal
  • Marc-André Dufour, Clinical Psychologist and author of the book Se donner le droit d'être malheureux
  • Christine Genest, Professor, Faculty of Nursing, Université de Montréal
  • Eveline Laurin, Clinical Coordinator, Centre de prévention du suicide de Lanaudière
  • Geneviève Moreau-Blier, Clinical Coordinator, Centre de prévention du suicide Accalmie
  • Lucie Pelchat, Training Advisor AQPS
  • Mélanie Rembert, Project Manager, Research and Communications, AQPS
  • Catherine Rioux, Communications Coordinator, AQPS

My Tools

Design
 


Design of the Getting better my way tool (integrated into My Tools)
 

Development of online intervention practices

Clinical working committee
 

  • Éric Arseneault, Clinical Coordinator, Centre de prévention du suicide de Québec
  • Kim Basque, Training Coordinator, AQPS
  • Anne-Marie Codaire, Acting Client Services Coordinator, Suicide Action Montréal
  • Louis-Philippe Côté, Suicide Prevention and Program Assessment Coordinator
  • Mélanie Lapierre, Counsellor and Trainer, Centre de prévention du suicide 02
  • Lucie Pelchat, Training Advisor, AQPS
  • Françoise Roy, Clinical Manager of Digital Intervention, AQPS
  • Fabienne Tremblay, Clinical Coordinator, Centre de prévention du suicide 02
  • James Zhang, Clinical Coordinator, Suicide Action Montréal

Acknowledgements

Digital strategy start-up committee
 

Many thanks to the following professionals, who agreed to combine their expertise and participate in developing the digital strategy implementation plan in the early stages of the project. The committee operated from July 2017 to March 2018.

 

Fabienne Audette (Suicide Action Montréal), Jeanne Bazinet (CIUSSS – Estrie CHUS), Anne-Marie Codaire (Suicide Action Montréal), Louis-Philippe Côté (suicide prevention and program assessment consultant), Jérôme Gaudreault (AQPS), Réal Labelle (UQAM), Julie Lane (CIUSSS – Estrie CHUS), Michel Lozeau (digital management consultant), Brian Mishara (CRISE – UQAM), Stéphane Ruel (Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux), Monique Séguin (Université du Québec en Outaouais), Mélanie Rembert (AQPS), Alexandre Taillefer (XPND Capital), Derek Zakaïb (digital and interactive marketing specialist).
 

Ad hoc support for clinical work

Many thanks to these professional, researchers, and experts who agreed to share their insight and knowledge to help develop our online intervention practices:

 

Saskia Aerts (Flemish Centre of Expertise in Suicide Prevention and Zelfmoord 1813), Élise Arseneault (Suicide Action Montréal), Rock-André Blondin (suicide prevention consultant), Vanessa Blouin (Tel-jeunes), Annie-Pier Caron (Tel-Écoute du Littoral), Vicky Chicoine (Revivre), Marianne Chouinard (Besoin d’aide), Johan Cluyts (Zelmoord 1813), Bruno Collard (Revivre), Andréanne Deschamps (Kids Help Phone), Élise Huot (Tel-jeunes), Lydia Jones (Suicide Action Montréal), Karine Larouche (Centre de prévention du suicide 02), Chloé Login (Tel-Écoute du Littoral), Cynthia McKeown (Tel-Écoute du Littoral), Trine Natasja Sindahl (psychology researcher), Vickie Perron (Tel-jeunes), Pierre Plourde (Association des centres d’écoute du Québec), Audrey Rhéaume (Centre de prévention du suicide de Québec), Angéline Roy-Hébert (Revivre), Christine Sauvé (Revivre), Mireille St-Pierre (Interligne), Mélanie Tremblay (Centre de prévention du suicide de Québec), Pascal Vaillancourt (Interligne).
 

Testimonials
 

We would like to offer heartfelt thanks to all the people who agreed to share their stories on suicide.ca. Your contributions will help give hope to people experiencing challenges and hardship.
 

Continued support
 

We would like to thank Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux of the Government of Quebec and Direction générale de la santé publique for their close collaboration in deploying the digital strategy.


Thanks also to all members of the AQPS team who contributed in to the digital strategy and continue to move it forward.
 

Suppliers
 

We would like to thank the suppliers who assisted us in launching suicide.ca.

Nventive (technological partner), Bla bla rédaction (linguistic revision), Anglocom (English translation), Natifs (digital writing), Productions 4 éléments (video production), Norton Rose Fulbright Canada (legal council), Vumetric (digital security support).



*The roles of the individuals listed on this page are the ones they held when contributing to the project.