> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.getrivet.ca/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Crisis templates — safety planning and reasons for living > Two templates for when risk is the presenting concern: the Stanley & Brown six-step safety plan, and the Brief Reasons for Living inventory of protective factors. Two templates sit here, and they do opposite jobs. One is a screen you score. The other is a document you build with the client and they keep. Neither assesses risk on its own. If you are trying to establish whether risk is present, the screening instruments do that — [C-SSRS](/clinical-templates/clinician-administered/c-ssrs) as the structured interview, [ASQ](/clinical-templates/specialized/asq) as a brief screen, and the PHQ-9's Item 9 as the flag that most often raises the question in the first place. ## The safety plan is not a form to complete The [safety plan](/clinical-templates/crisis/safety-plan) is Stanley and Brown's six steps — warning signs, internal coping, social distraction, people to call, professionals, and making the environment safer. Its value is in the making of it, collaboratively, in the client's own words. A safety plan filled in *for* a client is paperwork; one built *with* them is an intervention. It ends up in their hands, not only in your record. That is the point of it. ## Reasons for living is a measure, and reads the other way round The [RFL-12](/clinical-templates/crisis/rfl-12) inventories protective factors across four subscales, scored 12–72, where **higher is better** — the opposite direction to almost everything else in the library. It is a useful counterweight in a session that has spent most of its time on risk, and it gives you something to track that is not deterioration. ## What Rivet does and does not do here Rivet flags a positive PHQ-9 Item 9 and timestamps when the response arrived, and it holds the safety plan against the client's record so it is findable in the next session rather than in a drawer. Everything after that is clinical judgement — what a positive screen means for this client, what to do next, who to involve, and what your College expects you to document. The software's job is to put the information in front of you and keep it, not to decide. ## The two templates The Stanley & Brown six-step plan, built with the client and kept by them. Brief Reasons for Living — protective factors across four subscales, higher is better. ## Related articles The structured suicide-risk interview you conduct yourself. What raises a flag, where it appears, and what it does not do.