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Acknowledgements

We would like to acknowledge the generous support provided by the Eshelman Institute for Innovation at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy

This project was supported by Grant SRG-0-200-17 awarded to Dr. Delesha Carpenter and Dr. Jill Lavigne from the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.

The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.

This work does not represent the views or opinions of the US Department of Veterans Affairs or the US government.

This work was supported by in-kind staff and resources from the Center of Excellence for Suicide Prevention, Department of Veterans Affairs.

We would like to acknowledge our stakeholder development panel who dedicated a lot of time and hard work to the implementation of this project. Thank you to Lynn Cooper, Jolynn Lloyd, Andrea Miller, Joe Minton, Amanda Nichols, Alexis Shook.

We would also like to acknowledge the actors who generously contributed their time and effort for the video scenarios and interactive cases. We offer a special thank you to Katherine Austin, Karen Conington-Yow, Michael Koldan, Matt Lutz, Siera McClendon, Amanda Nichols, William Stallworth, Peter Wakem, and Charlie Wilson.

The project was coordinated by Dr. Amanda Stover, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of North Carolina Eshelman Schoool of Pharmacy.

The course was produced by the MEDIA team at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy in Chapel Hill.

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