The Center for Suicide Prevention and Recovery

Name

The Center for Suicide Prevention and Recovery

Legal name

The Center for Suicide Prevention and Recovery

Website

https://uwcspar.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2019

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Mental health professional training and suicide prevention research services

NAICS

Individual and Family Services (6241), Other Individual and Family Services (624190), Social Assistance (624)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300), Services-Misc Health & Allied Services, Nec (8090)

akta.pro primary industry

Crisis Support, Suicide Prevention & Acute Behavioral Triage Platforms (HLALAEAI)

akta.pro secondary industries

Mental Health Counseling & Psychotherapy Services (EDALAFAB), Mental Health & Crisis Support Services (BPAGAEAH)

Keywords

• Suicide prevention research
• Clinical training programs
• Evidence-based interventions
• Mental health professional education
• Dialectical behavior therapy training

Headquarters

HQ city

Seattle

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Others

Revenue model

1. Training and Education Programs: CSPAR generates revenue through fee-based training programs including DBT Annual Training and PARSWeb Training. Training costs vary by affiliation status, ranging from free for UW-affiliated trainees to full price for community clinicians.

Pricing tiers

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

CSPAR conducts research and provides training to equip mental health professionals with the resources needed to effectively care for individuals experiencing suicidal thoughts and behavior. The center offers a portfolio of fee-based training programs (DBT, PARSWeb, Suicide Care in Healthcare Systems), self-guided online courses, affiliated clinical programs (DBT at Harborview, CAMS, Crisis Care Clinic), and implementation research services grounded in evidence-based suicide prevention interventions.

Product overview

The Center for Suicide Prevention and Recovery (CSPAR) is a research and training center affiliated with the University of Washington Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. The organization offers a portfolio of clinical programs (DBT at Harborview, CAMS, DBT-ACES, Crisis Care Clinic), training programs (Annual Comprehensive DBT Training, Suicide Care in Healthcare Systems, PARSWeb Training, Self-Guided Online Trainings), research initiatives including the Suicide Care Research Center (SCRC) and multiple clinical trials, and consulting services. The product portfolio is structured as a unified research-training-clinical services model where evidence-based interventions developed through research are disseminated through training programs and implemented in affiliated clinical programs. Key technology offerings include the ISACC web application for scaling the Caring Contacts intervention.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Annual Comprehensive DBT Training A comprehensive three-tier post-graduate level training program in Dialectical Behavior Therapy offered annually, including a 2-Day DBT Overview Workshop (Tier 1), a 21-session Seminar Series (Tier 2), and supervised Clinical Training (Tier 3, UW trainees only). Targeted at clinicians seeking to deliver DBT for suicidal and self-harming behavior.
• Suicide Care in Healthcare Systems Training An 8-hour virtual live training designed to provide an understanding of how best to serve patients across the suicide care pathway, synthesizing evidence-based suicide interventions and Joint Commission expectations. Targeted at healthcare system clinical staff.
• PARSWeb Training An online self-guided training program for counselors to deliver the Preventing Addiction Related Suicide (PARS) intervention in group settings, featuring the PARSWeb manual, web-based workbook, and video examples. Available 24/7 for mental health professionals.
• CAMS (Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality) A brief, suicide-focused outpatient treatment framework that can be a treatment itself or integrated with other suicide prevention interventions, focused on establishing a therapeutic alliance and keeping focus on suicidality until it resolves. Offered through CSPAR-affiliated clinical programs.
• DBT at Harborview A Dialectical Behavior Therapy program at Harborview Medical Center offering weekly group and individual therapy sessions provided by a team of therapists, focused on treating suicidal and self-harming behavior.
• DBT-ACES (Dialectical Behavior Therapy – Accepting the Challenges of Employment & Self-Sufficiency) An expansion of standard DBT featuring a second year of treatment designed for DBT graduates who want to increase self-sufficiency and maintain living wage employment, with demonstrated cost savings and employment outcomes.
• Crisis Care Clinic (CCC) at Seattle Children's A behavioral health crisis care clinic offering families an alternative to emergency rooms for mental health crises, specifically suicidal crises that are not emergencies.
• ISACC (Informatics Supported Authorship of Caring Contacts) An informatics-supported Caring Contacts web application developed using Human Centered Design to make Caring Contacts easy to implement and scale, addressing the infrastructure needs for implementing the intervention.
• Suicide Care Research Center (SCRC) An NIMH-funded interdisciplinary center working to improve the design and delivery of suicide care for adolescents and young adults in outpatient medical settings through 12 studies using human-centered design and optimization methods.
• Individualized Consulting Customized consulting services offered by CSPAR and SCRC to support implementation of suicide prevention programs and interventions for healthcare systems and clinical teams.

Quantifiable outcome

• DBT reduced suicide attempts: 90% of youth receiving DBT vs 79% receiving IGST made no suicide attempts in CARES study
• +3 more outcomes

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability4 records

Feature2 records

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered core, major and moderate.

• University of Washington Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral SciencescoreOthersCSPAR is an integral part of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington, providing research infrastructure and academic affiliation.
• Suicide Care Research Center (SCRC)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAn NIMH-funded center grant (P50) led by Dr. Comtois that supports 12 studies to improve suicide care for adolescents and young adults. CSPAR works closely with SCRC on shared research and training objectives.
• UW MedicinemajorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorPartnership with UW Medicine healthcare system including Harborview Medical Center for clinical training and program delivery. Staff receive free or reduced-cost training through this relationship.
• Seattle Children's HospitalmajorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorCollaboration with Seattle Children's for clinical programs including the Behavioral Health Crisis Care Clinic and DBT program. Staff receive training benefits through the affiliation.
• VA Puget SoundmajorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorPartnership with VA Puget Sound healthcare system for training delivery and clinical program collaboration. Staff receive training benefits through this affiliation.
• AIMS Center (Advancing Integrated Mental Health Solutions)moderateStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration on development of PARS training materials and implementation resources for suicide prevention in integrated care settings.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Stanley/Brown Safety Planning Intervention: Stanley and Brown develop and disseminate the Safety Planning Intervention, a brief evidence-based suicide prevention tool — directly comparable to CSPAR's training-focused dissemination of CAMS, Caring Contacts, and DBT for the same clinician market.
• Zero Suicide Institute: The Zero Suicide Institute offers training, consultation, and resources to healthcare systems for implementing evidence-based suicide prevention — directly comparable to CSPAR's training and consulting portfolio targeting healthcare systems and clinicians.
• Behavioral Tech (a Linehan Institute company): Behavioral Tech is the primary DBT training and certification organization founded by Dr. Marsha Linehan's collaborators, directly competing with CSPAR's Annual Comprehensive DBT Training and DBT skills programs for the same clinician audience.
• Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC): SPRC is a federally funded resource center providing training, best practices, and implementation resources for suicide prevention — directly comparable as a publicly supported training and resource hub aimed at professionals and communities.
• CAMS-care: CAMS-care is the official training and dissemination home of the Collaborative Assessment and Management of Suicidality (CAMS) framework, an intervention CSPAR trains on — directly comparable as a competing dissemination and certification entity for the same protocol.

Emerging players

• DBT-Linehan Board of Certification: The DBT-Linehan Board of Certification certifies individual DBT providers and programs — comparable as a credentialing ecosystem that influences demand for CSPAR's Annual DBT Training and Tier 3 clinical training pathways.

Broad incumbents

• American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP): AFSP is the largest U.S. nonprofit funding suicide prevention research, education, advocacy, and survivor support — comparable as a research funder and public-facing resource that overlaps CSPAR's training and resource mission at a national scale.
• Crisis Text Line: Crisis Text Line is a large national text-based crisis intervention service that complements the 988 Lifeline ecosystem and overlaps with CSPAR's Caring Contacts digital outreach research and acute behavioral triage mission.
• 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline: The 988 Lifeline is the federally backed national crisis intervention service — comparable in acute behavioral triage function to CSPAR's crisis support focus, with national reach that dwarfs CSPAR's footprint.

Others

• AIMS Center (UW Psychiatry): The AIMS Center is a sibling UW Department of Psychiatry unit focused on integrated behavioral health implementation and training — comparable as an adjacent academic center partnering with CSPAR on PARS implementation and competing for similar UW, state, and foundation funding.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles10 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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M&A

Investments

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