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Scope note: Programs and strategies to be used in K-12 school settings.

Addressing self-injury in the school setting: URL: http://www.allenpress.com/pdf/scnu_24_305_124_130.pdf
Journal of School Nursing. 2008 Jun; 24(3): 124-30. A comprehensive plan for school nurses and guidance department staff. Discusses: the alarming increase of self-injurious behavior among adolescents; school nurses, educated about self-injury, as resources for other school staff members; prevention strategies for all adolescents and for at-risk adolescents; referral and early access to counseling; and educating staff members and parents. Includes "Self injury protocol", which offers different plans for three types of self-injurious behavior: when suicidal behavior is present; when suicidal thinking is present; and when low-lethality self-injury is present.
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An adolescent mental health & wellness curriculum: A starter kit for schools: URL: http://www.childrenshospital.org/clinicalservices/Site1584/Documents/D10_Adoles_Curriculum_2nd_Edition_2006_a.pdf
A manual for school leaders containing information directed at promoting wellness and facilitating resiliency of the adolescents in their school.
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After A Suicide: URL: http://www.yspp.org/schools/crisis_response_after.htm
This bulleted list of needs after a suicide is for administrators, school staff, students, and parents. It is derived from the book Managing Sudden Traumatic Loss in Schools.
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C-Care/CAST (SPRC EBPP Fact Sheet): URL: http://www.sprc.org/featured_resources/bpr/ebpp_PDF/ccare_cast.pdf
A fact sheet that describes C-Care (Counselors Care) and C-CAST (Coping and Support Training), a school-based intervention for students at risk for suicide. It combines one-on-one counseling with a series of small-group training sessions. The fact sheet includes a description of the program, evaluation designs and outcomes, the intended audience, and targeted protective and risk factors.
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Call to Action to Prevent Youth Suicide: URL: http://www.nasponline.org/advocacy/suicidecalltoaction.aspx
This webpage describes the problem of suicide in youth and the leadership role school psychologists should play in collaborative efforts involving schools, communities, and mental health professionals to prevent suicide.
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Colorado LINK: Teen suicide prevention initiative evaluation report: URL: http://cotr.vermilion.com/attachments/0000/2962/ColoradoLINKSummaryReport.pdf
This 14 page summary highlights findings from the OMNI Institute's independent evaluation of Colorado LINK, an effort to reduce teen suicide at two large Denver public high schools and at Urban Peak, a shelter for homeless youth. It is a targeted initiative that included screening.
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Columbia University TeenScreen Program (SPRC EBPP Fact Sheet): URL: http://www.sprc.org/featured_resources/bpr/ebpp_PDF/columbia-teenscreen.pdf
A fact sheet that describes Columbia University's TeenScreen Program. The purpose of the program is to identify youth who are at-risk for suicide and potentially suffering from mental illness and then ensure they receive a complete evaluation. The fact sheet includes a full description of the program, evaluation designs and outcomes, the intended audience, and targeted protective and risk factors.
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Considerations for School Settings: URL: http://ww3.suicideinfo.ca/ForProfessionals/SchoolSettings/tabid/714/Default.aspx
This information sheet describes appropriate after-care for students, staff, and parents after a suicide or attempt to ensure their safety and prevent future attempts.
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Creating competent communities for youth suicide prevention: URL: http://www.sprc.org/library/SPTSNJCreatCompetentCommYouthSuicidePrev.pdf
Presentation that reviews the benefits of a comprehensive school-based suicide prevention program (the "competent school community"); outlines specific program components; provides an example of faculty/staff intervention; and reviews a model for parent awareness training and student curriculum.
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Crisis intervention: A guide for school-based clinicians: URL: http://csmh.umaryland.edu/resources/CSMH/resourcepackets/files/crisis_intervention_2002.pdf
This brief guide provides guidance for school-based clinicians on how to counsel students in crisis and effectively function within a school crisis team. Although the guide mentions that youth expressing suicidal intent or ideation always need follow-up care, it lacks any other specific reference to suicide. The guide does list a large number of websites and includes suicide in the references.
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Crisis Management in Children and Adolescents: Information for Parents and Caregivers: URL: http://www.schoolmentalhealth.org/Resources/Fam/ParentsCrisis%20Management%20Edited%202.8.08.pdf
This document discusses the potential reactions, including suicidal ideation, of children and adolescents to traumatic events.
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Cultural and linguistic competence: URL: http://www.promoteprevent.org/Resources/clc/
This toolkit is based on a model of three interconnected arches: organizational structure, engagement, and services/activities/interventions. Together, the arches provide the support to create a solid foundation for the Safe Schools/Healthy Students (SS/HS) initiative.
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Culturally Competent Crisis Response: Information for School Psychologists and Crisis Teams: URL: http://www.schoolcounselor.org/files/cc_crisis.pdf
This information sheet, using vignettes on suicide among minority students, discusses crisis response planning and culturally competent response.
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Dealing with death at school: URL: http://www.nasponline.org/resources/principals/Dealing%20with%20Death%20at%20School%20April%2004.pdf
This article in Principal Leadership discusses appropriate ways school leadership should respond to a death in the school community, with particular emphasis on suicide.
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Dealing With Suicide-related Curriculum: URL: http://www.sptsnj.org/educators/suicide-curriculum.html
This information sheet provides guidance on dealing with suicide themes in traditional coursework, such as the play Romeo and Juliet, and how to manage the emotions of students who may have been personally affected by suicide.
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Depression in Children and Adolescents: Information for Parents and Educators: URL: http://www.nasponline.org/resources/handouts/revisedPDFs/depression.pdf
This handout describes the problem of depression, symptoms, risk factors, ways to determine if a student is depressed, available treatment options and how to access them, and whole school approaches to prevent suicide.
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Finding help and working with schools: Tips for parents of teens with mental health problems: URL: http://www.disabilityrightsoregon.org/resources/6-useful-publications-from-other-organizations/finding-help-and-working-with-schools-tips-for-parents-of-teens-with-mental-health-problems/view?searchterm=None
A brochure primarily for parents about how to work with the school to help their teen who has a mental health problem.
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Helping Students Cope with Suicide: URL: http://www.nais.org/articlePrint.cfm?print=Y&ItemNumber=145734
Short fact sheet providing five guidelines on responding to students after a suicide in the school community.
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How do school staff benefit from gatekeeper training in suicide prevention?: URL: http://www.sprc.org/grantees/pdf/2006/Wyman_GatekeeperTraining.pdf
State/Tribal/Adolescents at Risk Suicide Prevention Grantee Technical Assistance Meeting. December 12�14, 2006, North Bethesda, MD. This presentation by Peter Wyman describes study that tested gatekeeper training in 32 secondary schools. It discusses which staff benefit and how and different types of Gatekeeper training for different staff.
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Implementing school-based programs: Issues and strategies: URL: http://www.sprc.org/grantees/pdf/2006/Kalafat_schoolbasedprograms.pdf
State/Tribal/Adolescents at Risk Suicide Prevention Grantee Technical Assistance Meeting. December 12�14, 2006, North Bethesda, MD. This presentation by John Kalfat discusses sustainability and community competence issues of program implementation. It also describes the Lifelines School-Based Suicide Response Program.
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Laws requiring or encouraging suicide prevention training for school personnel: URL: http://www.sprc.org/library/Laws_Requiring_or_Encouraging_SP_Training_for_School_Personnel.pdf
Lists state legislation passed during 2006-2009 requiring suicide prevention training for school personnel.
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Lifelines (SPRC EBPP Fact Sheet): URL: http://www.sprc.org/featured_resources/bpr/ebpp_PDF/lifelines.pdf
This fact sheet describes Lifelines, a school-based suicide prevention curriculum comprised of four 45-minute lessons. Ot also includes a description of the program, evaluation designs and outcomes, the intended audience, and targeted protective and risk factors.
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Maine's approach to school-based suicide prevention: URL: http://www.sprc.org/grantees/statetribe/2009/PDF/4CCantyBrooksDiCara.pdf
Garrett Lee Smith Suicide Prevention Grantee Meeting, January 5-9, 2009, Phoenix, AZ. This presentation describes how the Maine Youth Suicide Prevention Program combines universal, selective and indicated approaches to suicide prevention.
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Managing school crises: More than just response: URL: http://www.nasponline.org/resources/principals/School%20Crisis%20NASSP%20May%202008.pdf
These recommendations provide a brief overview of the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP)'s PREPaRE: School Crisis Prevention and Intervention Training Curriculum (PREPaRE), which provides local-level training to school districts and responders across the country and is consistent with guidance from other well established experts (e.g.; U.S. Department of Education)
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Managing sudden traumatic loss in the schools: URL: http://www.psybc.com/pdfs/Loss_article.pdf
This is is an excerpt from "Managing sudden traumatic loss in the schools" article by Maureen Underwood and Karen Dunne-Maxim. It was written for school staff to facilitate their understandings of the complexities of grief that might be observed in school populations, which is why clinical language has been omitted.
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Media guidelines for school administrators who may interact with reporters about youth suicide: URL: http://www.maine.gov/suicide/professionals/program/mediaschool.htm
This brief manual explores how media accounts can actually serve as a suicide prevention tool by: assisting news professionals to report responsibly and accurately; using a media request for information as an opportunity to influence the contents of the story; emphasizing the importance of listing available community resources for individuals at-risk and describing what is being done to promote safety for vulnerable individuals in the aftermath of a suicide; and warning against the aspects of news coverage that may promote copycat suicides.
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Memorial activities at school: A list of "do's" and "don'ts": URL: http://www.nasponline.org/resources/crisis_safety/memorialdo_donot.pdf
This document from the National Association of School Psychologist provides "do's and don'ts" to guide school staff in planning memorial activities to help students and staff deal with trauma and loss.
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No longer alone: A resource manual for rural sexual minority youth and the adults who serve them: URL: http://www.nyacyouth.org/docs/ruralyouth/NoLongerAlone.pdf
This resource manual assists concerned adults in creating safe environments for rural gay youth. Includes information for students, teachers, and social service providers. Offers a comprehensive list of resources.
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Parental consent act of 2009: URL: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-2218&tab=related
This bill, H.R. 2218 (111) introduced in April 2009 by Congressman Ron Paul of Texas to prohibit the use of Federal funds for any universal or mandatory mental health screening program. Similar bills, both dead, were introduced in 2005 and 2007.
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Postvention standards manual: A guide for a school's response in the aftermath of a sudden death: URL: http://www.starcenter.pitt.edu/Manuals/6/Default.aspx
STAR-Center recommends that school districts, working closely with their community resources, prepare for tragedies by developing policies and procedures that may be activated on very short notice. This manual is intended to help school personnel prepare for the possibility of a tragedy, including suicide, within the school community.
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Preventing depression: A toolkit for schools: URL: http://www.childrenshospital.org/clinicalservices/Site1584/mainpageS1584P9sublevel20.html
This manual focuses on the implementation of a program specifically designed to address depression prevention for students in grades 7-12. It is available for purchase at the link listed with this record.
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Preventing Suicidal Behavior among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Youth: Developing LGBT cultural competence: URL: http://www.sprc.org/library/PreventingSuicidalBehaviorLGBTYouth.pdf
Lists criteria for agencies, schools and the individuals who work for them to assess LGBT cultural competence, with an emphasis on suicide risk among LGBT youth.
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Preventing suicide: A resource for teachers and other school staff: URL: http://www.who.int/mental_health/media/en/62.pdf
This 18-page guide briefly describes suicidal behavior in adolescence and risk and protective factors, provides general strategies on how to identify and manage students at risk (improving school climate, building self-esteem in students), and explains how to respond to a suicide or attempt in the school community.
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Preventing teen suicide: A review of school-based strategies: URL: http://www.sprc.org/grantees/statetribe/2009/PDF/TuesdaySchoolBasedPlenaryGould.pdf
Garrett Lee Smith Suicide Prevention Grantee Meeting, January 5-9, 2009, Phoenix, AZ. This presentation by Madelyn Gould describes school-based suicide prevention strategies: curriculum, screening, gatekeeper training, and others.
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Preventing youth suicide: Tips for parents and educators: URL: http://www.nasponline.org/resources/crisis_safety/suicideprevention.aspx
This webpage describes the risk and resiliency factors related to suicide, warning signs of suicide, ways in which to respond, and parent or caregiver notification.
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Promising Practices to Prevent Adolescent Suicide: What We Can Learn from New Jersey: URL: http://www.shepscenter.unc.edu/publications/suicidepreventionNJ.pdf
This report provides an in-depth examination of New Jersey�s policies and practices targeting teen suicide as well as a literature review of suicide prevention strategies nationwide that have shown the most promise for school programs, communities, and health care partners.
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Psychotropic Drugs and Children: Use, Trends, and Implications for Schools: URL: http://www.healthinschools.org/Health-in-Schools/Health-Services/School-Health-Services/School-Health-Issues/ADD/~/media/Files/psychotropic.ashx
This fact sheet discusses emotional and behavioral health problems in children and youth and the role of psychotropic medications in treatment, including safety, indications for specific medications, and side effects. Suicide is mentioned as both a symptom of a condition and a side effect of certain medications.
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Reconnecting Youth Class (SPRC EBPP Fact Sheet): URL: http://www.sprc.org/featured_resources/bpr/ebpp_PDF/reconnecting_youth.pdf
This fact sheet describes the Reconnecting Youth Class, a school-based selective/indicated prevention program that targets young people in grades 9�12 who show signs of poor school achievement, potential for school dropout, and other at-risk behaviors including suicide-risk behaviors. RY teaches skills to build resiliency with respect to risk factors and to moderate early signs of substance abuse, and depression/aggression. The factsheet includes a description of the program, evaluation designs and outcomes, the intended audience, and targeted protective and risk factors.
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Research-based guidelines and practices for school-based suicide prevention: URL: http://ican-ncfr.org/documents/SchoolSuicide.pdf
This document summarizes federal (and California) activity to prevent student suicide and provides research-based guidance for district- local- and site-level suicide prevention programming with comprehensive involvement of school personnel.
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Responding to crisis at a school: URL: http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/pdfdocs/crisis/crisis.pdf
This extensive (161 pages) resource aid provides guidance on crisis planning and response as well as violence and suicide prevention through whole school approaches involving crisis teams. It also summarizes evaluations on crisis team effectiveness. The collected handouts target staff, students, and parents.
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Response to the myth that talking about suicide will "plant the idea": URL: http://www.sptsnj.org/educators/talking-myth.html
This brief essay summarizes evidence supporting the position that talking about suicide does not increase risk but serves to prevent it.
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Response: A comprehensive high school-based suicide awareness program. (Fact sheet): URL: http://www.sprc.org/featured_resources/bpr/PDF/RESPONSE_FactSheet.pdf
A fact sheet describing RESPONSE, a comprehensive high school-based youth suicide prevention program that includes a concise implementation manual as well as a student, staff and parent component. The program addresses: attitudes and behaviors; risk factors; helping guidelines; and skills practice. Program includes suicide awareness film series "Never Enough" created by OutreachArts.
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Safe and Responsible Use of the Internet: A Guide for Educators: URL: http://csriu.org/onlinedocs/pdf/srui/sruilisting.html
This guide for educators addresses the issues involved with the use of the Internet by youth, including harm that may come, such as online bullying or sexual harassment. The materials provide guidance for school districts in the development and implementation of a comprehensive education and supervision approach to assist students in gaining the knowledge, skills, and motivation to use the Internet in a safe and responsible manner. The guide is organized into 4 parts: Comprehensive Approach, Safe and Responsible Internet Use Plan, Legal Issues of Internet Use in Schools, and Planning and Implementing Documentation.
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Save a Friend: Tips for Teens to Prevent Suicide: URL: http://www.nasponline.org/resources/crisis_safety/savefriend_general.aspx
This webpage discusses risk factors related to traumatic events, warning signs for suicide among fellow students, and ways in which friends can respond and access help.
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School Awareness Series: The Role of the School Board In Suicide Prevention: URL: http://www.sptsnj.org/pdfs/school-board.pdf
This one-page fact sheet provides guidance to school board members on how they can ensure that policies and awareness training for staff can support suicide prevention in at-risk students as well as district-wide preparedness and response
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School health and mental health providers (SPRC Customized Information Series): URL: http://www.sprc.org/featured_resources/customized/school_mentalhealth.asp
This page, created for school health and mental health providers, contains information on recognizing and responding to warning signs, resource materials about suicide prevention, including programs, as well as other suicide prevention information relevant to school health providers.
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School memorials after suicide: Helpful or harmful?: URL: http://www.suicideinfo.ca/csp/assets/alert54.pdf
This issue brief draws from the research to provide guidance for responding to suicide in a manner that supports grieving while mitigating contagion.
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School mental health: Role of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and factors affecting service provision: URL: http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d0819r.pdf
This report describes: SAMHSA�s coordination with other federal departments and agencies to support mental health services in schools; how SAMHSA identifies and supports evidence-based school mental health services; and factors that affect the provision of mental health services in schools.
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School-associated suicides - United States, 1994--1999: URL: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5322a4.htm
MMWR, June 11, 2004; 53(22):476-78. To describe the psychosocial and behavioral characteristics of school-associated suicide victims, CDC analyzed data from school and police officials. The results indicated that, among the 126 students who carried out school-associated homicides or suicides, 28 (22%) died by suicide, including eight who intentionally injured others immediately before killing themselves. Potential indicators of suicide risk such as expressions of suicidal thoughts, recent social stressors, and substance use were common among the victims. These findings underscore the need for school staff to recognize risk factors for suicide.
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School-based crisis management recommendations on suicide: Prevention, intervention, and postvention: URL: http://www.helppromotehope.com/resources/images/School_Crisis_Plan.pdf
This guide was created to support schools in strengthening their ability to prevent, intervene and respond to a suicide crisis within the school setting. In addition, the document summarizes legal cases relating to the issue of school negligence in student suicides.
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School-based programs: URL: http://www.sprc.org/grantees/pdf/2006/InmanSchoolBasedPrograms.pdf
State/Tribal/Adolescents at Risk Suicide Prevention Grantee Technical Assistance Meeting. December 12�14, 2006, North Bethesda, MD. This presentation by Jeff Inman describes the school suicide prevention work of Prevention/Intervention Center of Cobb County (GA).
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School-based suicide prevention: A matter of life and death: Physical Location/Acquisition Information: To obtain a free copy contact Jan Ulrich at jan.ulrich@ky.gov or 502.564.4456
This video is a helpful tool to use with school decision makers regarding the need for school-based suicide prevention/postvention programs and crisis planning. School administrators and staff share their experiences of dealing with the suicides of their students. An overview is given of school-based suicide prevention programs and crisis planning to reduce suicide among middle and high school students, including potential suicide contagion. The video emphasizes the importance of educating staff using gatekeeper programs and educating and screening students with evidence-based programs.
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Screening as an approach to suicide prevention in adolescents: URL: http://www.sprc.org/featured_resources/trainingandevents/conferences/pa/pdf/ScreeningApproachSuicidePrevention.pdf
From SPRC's Suicide Prevention Regional Planning Conference- Regions 3 & 5, May 2005. This presentation by Juan Pena and Eric Caine describes terminology, methods, and tools for adolescent suicide screening as well discusses feasibility, effectiveness and considerations for implanting a screening program.
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Screening/assessing students: indicators and tools: URL: http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/pdfdocs/assessment/assessment.pdf
This packet of author-produced and collected materials includes overviews, outlines, checklists, instruments, and recommendations and guidelines from federal agencies related to early identification through screening. It also examines the controversy related to the many false positives resulting from universal screening, as well as issues related to screening high-risk youth.
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SOS: Signs of Suicide (SPRC EBPP Fact Sheet): URL: http://www.sprc.org/featured_resources/bpr/ebpp_PDF/sos.pdf
A fact sheet that describes SOS: Signs of Suicide. SOS incorporates two prominent suicide prevention strategies into a single program, combining a curriculum that aims to raise awareness of suicide and its related issues with a brief screening for depression and other risk factors associated with suicidal behavior. Includes a description of the program, evaluation designs and outcomes, the intended audience, and targeted protective and risk factors.
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Sudden death-suicide-critical incident: Crisis response for principals and student services staff: URL: http://www.mhawisconsin.org/Uploads/gls/gls_madisoncrisisplan.pdf
Geared primarily toward principals, this guide lists specific procedures for coordinating a school's response to a sudden death, suicide, or other critical incident. Annotated checklists for principals, supported by handouts for school staff, guide school actions to communicate information to various audiences, provide support and services if needed, and prevent contagion.
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Suicide awareness training for faculty and staff: A training model for school counselors: URL: http://www.schoolcounselor.org/files/11-4-272%20Gibbons.pdf
This article provides a step-by-step model for mental health professionals to use and adapt for suicide in-service training for all school staff and includes text of an adapted (AAS, NIMH, SAVE) pretest.
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Suicide clusters and contagion: Recognizing and addressing suicide contagion are essential to successful suicide postvention efforts: URL: http://www.nasponline.org/resources/principals/Suicide_Clusters_NASSP_Sept_%2009.pdf
This article describes the problem of contagion and the ways that administrators can act to prevent it by establishing a crisis team, recognizing and monitoring at-risk students, and mobilizing community-wide responses.
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Suicide in children and adolescents: Information for teachers: URL: http://www.schoolmentalhealth.org/Resources/Educ/suicide%20sheet%20teachers%207.29.08.pdf
This two-page fact sheet lists warning signs and appropriate actions to take.
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Suicide postvention in the school community: URL: http://www.helppromotehope.com/documents/Zenere_Postvention.pdf
These 51 slides discuss considerations for postvention that involve all school personnel. Topics covered include contagion, risk identification, memorialization, and dealing with the media.
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Suicide prevention (Quick training aids): URL: http://www.smhp.psych.ucla.edu/pdfdocs/quicktraining/suicideprevention.pdf
This quick training aid provides a brief overview and fact sheets on suicide rates and methods to assess and prevent suicide. Collected center materials and those from other sources include several tools and handouts for use with presentations.
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Suicide prevention and intervention: URL: http://www.nasponline.org/resources/principals/Suicide%20Intervention%20in%20Secondary%20Schoools%20NASSP%20Oct%202006.pdf
This article provides guidance to administrators on the problem of student suicide; warning signs; suicide prevention planning, including school-wide approaches, such as gatekeeper training, screening, and establishing a suicide prevention task force; and postvention. Also includes legal considerations and responding to caregivers.
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Suicide prevention strategies- Schools: URL: http://www.nationalguidelines.org/guideline.cfm?guideNum=7-04&pageRefresh=true
From "Health, mental health and safety guidelines for schools". This guideline states that schools are to "actively prevent suicidal behavior by training staff and having programs that identify high-risk students and then link them to therapeutic and preventive community services".
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Suicide Prevention Toolkit: URL: http://www.mhawisconsin.org/content/introductiontoolkit.asp
This online resource collection contains a large number of materials useful for starting a youth suicide prevention program. They are listed under nine different topic sections, including making the case for developing a program, coalition building, youth screening programs and classroom curricula, gatekeeper training, crisis planning and postvention, evaluation tools, and information on obtaining funding.
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Suicide prevention: School Health Policies and Programs Study: URL: http://www.cdc.gov/HealthyYouth/shpps/2006/factsheets/pdf/FS_SuicidePrevention_SHPPS2006.pdf
School Health Policies and Programs Study (SHPPS) is a national survey periodically conducted to assess school health policies and programs at the state, district, school, and classroom levels. This fact sheet describes results from SHPPS 2006 regarding the role of suicide prevention in: school health education; school health, mental health and social services; and school policies.
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Suicide: Postvention strategies for school personnel: URL: http://www.nasponline.org/resources/intonline/HCHS2_weekley.pdf
This handout is designed to help guide the implementation of postvention services. It reviews basic facts about suicide victims and suicide survivors, describes the goals of suicide postvention, and reviews specific postvention procedures.
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Teacher guidelines for crisis response: URL: http://www.sprc.org/library/teacherguidelinesforcrisisresponse.pdf
This manual is reprinted from "A practical guide to crisis response in our schools" (1999). It describes: behavioral reactions of children ages 1 to 18 after a crisis; personal reactions by teachers; classroom strategies for teachers during a crisis; and when to refer students for individualized assessment and intervention.
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Teachers [SPRC Customized Information Page]: URL: http://www.sprc.org/featured_resources/customized/teachers.asp
From the SPRC Customized Information Series. A page created for teachers that contains information on recognizing and responding to warning signs, resource materials about suicide prevention, including programs, as well as other suicide prevention information relevant to teachers.
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Technical assistance sampler: School interventions to prevent youth suicide: URL: http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/pdfdocs/Sampler/Suicide/suicide.pdf
This report provides basic statistical info on youth suicide and an overview on the topics of suicide risk assessment, prevention, and aftermath assistance. Lists key references and major websites.
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Times of Tragedy: Preventing Suicide in Troubled Children and Youth, Part I, Tips for Parents and Schools: URL: http://www.nasponline.org/resources/crisis_safety/suicidept1_general.aspx
This webpage discusses the risk factors related to traumatic events, warning signs for suicide among teens for parents and teachers, and ways in which parents and teachers can respond and access help.
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Times of Tragedy: Preventing Suicide in Troubled Children and Youth, Part II, Tips for School Personnel or Crisis Team Members: URL: http://www.nasponline.org/resources/crisis_safety/suicidept2_general.aspx
This webpage discusses risk factors related to traumatic events, warning signs for suicide among teens for school personnel and school crisis teams members, ways in which they can respond and access help, legal considerations, and dealing with families.
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Tips for Teachers: Teen Depression and Suicide: URL: http://www.studyatapu.com/tips-for-teachers/APU_Suicide0709.pdf
This sample tip sheet provides guidance on how teachers can recognize depression or risk of suicide in teens, how they should respond, and ways to access help.
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Understand Suicide: Outlining Basic Characteristics: URL: http://www.sptsnj.org/educators/understanding-suicide.html
This information sheet provides a definition of suicide and five points discussing reasons why students can consider suicide as a way to alleviate emotional pain.
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Understanding and Responding to Students Who Self-Mutilate: URL: http://www.nasponline.org/resources/principals/Self-Mutilation%20March%2004.pdf
This article discusses characteristics of Repetitive Self-Mutilation Syndrome (RSM) in students, precipitating factors, treatment, and intervention.
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Understanding Student Reactions to the Anniversary Date of a Peer's Death: URL: http://www.sptsnj.org/educators/anniversary-date-reactions.pdf
This fact sheet discusses how developmental characteristics of teens can make them especially vulnerable on the anniversary of a peer's death and how adults can prepare for and respond to their needs and reactions.
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What Every Teacher Should Know: URL: http://www.oregon.gov/DHS/ph/ipe/ysp/spubs.html
This brochure, available in both English and Spanish, discusses the scope of youth suicide in Oregon, ways teachers can recognize warning signs in students, ways to access help for them, and how to engage families in accessing services.
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When a Student Seems Dangerous to Self or Others: URL: http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/pdfdocs/practicenotes/dangerous.pdf
This one-page information sheet provides specific guidance to schools on how to respond when a student appears at imminent risk of violence or suicidal acts.
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When It Hurts to Be a Teenager: URL: http://www.nasponline.org/resources/principals/Depression%20NASSP%20October%2003.pdf
This article discusses characteristics of depression and other mood disorders and how depression differs from adolescent moodiness, ways to identify depression, and ways in which schools can respond in assisting students with depression and prevent suicide.
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The Wisconsin components of school-based suicide prevention, intervention and postvention model: URL: http://www.mhawisconsin.org/content/schoolbasedmodel.asp
Outlines essential components, and provides guidelines and procedures for schools to follow for suicide prevention, intervention and postvention for Wisconsin. Appendices include procedures for crisis teams, communicating with the media, facts about suicide and local and national resources.
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Youth and young adults suicide prevention checklist: URL: http://www.rochesterpreventsuicide.org/checklist.html
This checklist of the elements needed for a successful prevention effort was created at the Youth and Young Adults conference, which was held as part of the Preventing Suicide: A Scientific Consensus process developed by the University of Rochester Center for the Study and Prevention of Suicide. The checklist emphasizes prevention efforts in youth, but can be used as a checklist for prevention efforts with any population.
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Youth at Risk for Mental Illness and Suicide: Screening Instruments and Assessment in SBHCs: URL: http://www.nasbhc.org/atf/cf/%7BCD9949F2-2761-42FB-BC7A-CEE165C701D9%7D/NL_Fall%202003.pdf
A description of the treatment process for TeenScreen, where positive TeenScreen assessments are followed by a more detailed assessment using instruments such as The NIMH DISC (Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children), The Voice DISC (Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children), or the DISC Predictive Scales (DPS. The article begins on p. 5.
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Youth Suicidal Behavior: Prevention and Intervention: URL: http://www.helppromotehope.com/documents/Zenere_for_parents.pdf
This PowerPoint presentation covers the risk and protective factors that influence the potential for suicidal behavior, five warning signs that increase the possibility for suicidal behavior, and actions that teachers and parents can take to prevent youth suicide.
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The youth suicide prevention school-based guide: URL: http://theguide.fmhi.usf.edu
A tool that provides a framework for schools to assess their existing or proposed suicide prevention efforts (through a series of checklists) and provides resources and information that school administrators can use to enhance or add to their existing program. Funded by the Institute of Child Health Policy at NOVA Southeastern University through a Florida Drug Free Communities Program Award.
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Youth suicide prevention, intervention & postvention guidelines: A resource for school personnel: URL: http://www.maine.gov/suicide/docs/Guidelines%2010-2009--w%20discl.pdf
The intent of this document is to: a) understand the nature of youth suicide; risk and protective factors; warning signs and clues; and appropriate intervention steps; b) establish school-based protocols for suicide prevention, crisis intervention and postvention; c) build connections within a community and among regional support services; and d) educate school personnel, parents and students about effective suicide prevention and intervention.
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Youth suicide prevention: Strengthening state policies and school-based strategies: URL: http://www.nga.org/cda/files/0504suicideprevention.pdf
This issue brief by the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices discusses what actions schools, governors, and state policymakers can take to strengthen statewide youth suicide prevention efforts.
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