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Scope Note: Students, up to the age of 24, attending college, and information on suicide and suicide prevention in the campus environment.

Active Minds, Inc.: Reaching out to young adults on campus
URL: http://www.sprc.org/grantees/pdf/2006/ReachingOut_amorrison.pdf
State/Tribal/Adolescents at Risk Suicide Prevention Grantee Technical Assistance Meeting. December 12–14, 2006, North Bethesda, MD. Describes Active Minds - a student-run mental health awareness, education, and advocacy organization on the college campus.
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Adapting the Air Force suicide prevention model for campuses: Cornell University
URL: http://www.sprc.org/grantees/campus/PDF/Eells_USAFCU.pdf
Campus Suicide Prevention Grantee Technical Assistance Meeting. January 17-19, 2007, Gaithersburg, MD. Describes why the Air Force suicide prevention model was appropriate for Cornell University mental health services.
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Anxiety disorders on campus: The growing need for college mental health services
URL: http://www.adaa.org/Bookstore/Publications/ADAA%20Report%20-%20FINAL%20embargoed.pdf
This report seeks to review the counseling and mental health resources available at America’s top colleges and universities to help determine whether these institutions are prepared to assist students who have an anxiety disorder with appropriate diagnostic counseling and other mental health services.
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Best practices for campus suicide prevention
URL: http://www.sprc.org/grantees/campus/PDF/SilvermanLittsPlenary_BestPractices.pdf
Campus Suicide Prevention Grantee Technical Assistance Meeting. January 17-19, 2007, Gaithersburg, MD. Discusses: existing best practices; the lexicon of "best practices" theory; and evaluating organizations.
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Campus example: Syracuse University and Campus Connect, A
URL: http://www.sprc.org/grantees/campus/PDF/WallackGKT.pdf
Campus Suicide Prevention Grantee Technical Assistance Meeting. January 17-19, 2007, Gaithersburg, MD. Describes Campus Connect program and its implementation in Syracuse University.
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College students (SPRC Customized Information Series)
URL: http://www.sprc.org/featured_resources/customized/college_student.asp
Information for college students on warning signs for suicide and how to help themselves as well as fellow students.
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Developing and marketing your suicide prevention message: A strategic approach (Presentation)
URL: http://www.sprc.org/library/strategicmessaging.pdf
This presentation describes social marketing principles, provides a strategic planning model, discusses what is unique about suicide prevention messages, and examines some examples of messaging developed by colleges and universities.
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The emerging crisis of college student suicide: Law and policy responses to serious forms of self-inflicted injury
URL: http://justice.law.stetson.edu/lawrev/abstracts/PDF/32-1Lake.pdf
Journal Article. From Stetson Law Review, 32, page 125-157. This article discusses changes in law that institutes of higher education will face more civil liability when if they fail to take steps to prevent student suicide, including notifying parents or others of the warning signs exhibited by the student.
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Evaluating the effectiveness of Gatekeeper Training: Using logic models to guide implementation and evaluation
URL: http://www.sprc.org/grantees/campus/PDF/EvaluatingEffectivenessGatekeeperTraining-Handout.pdf
Campus Suicide Prevention Grantee Technical Assistance Meeting. January 17-19, 2007, Gaithersburg, MD. Describes logic models as a systematic and visual way to present relationships among the existing resources, the activities of the program, and the planned changes or result.
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Framework for developing institutional protocols for the acutely distressed or suicidal college student (Presentation)
URL: http://www.sprc.org/grantees/campus/PDF/Locke_policiescrisis.pdf
Campus Suicide Prevention Grantee Technical Assistance Meeting. January 17-19, 2007, Gaithersburg, MD. Describes a protocol framework developed by the Jed Foundation.
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Framework for developing institutional protocols for the acutely distressed or suicidal college student.
URL: http://www.jedfoundation.org/professionals/programs-and-research/framework
This document, Co-sponsored by the American College Health Association, American College Personnel Association, Association for University and College Counseling Center Directors, and National Association of Student Personnel Administrators, provides a college or university community with a list of issues to consider when drafting or revising protocols relating to the management of the student in acute distress or at risk for suicide. It is divided into the following three sections, each of which is structured as a series of questions: Developing a safety protocol; Developing an emergency contact notification protocol; Developing a leave of absence and re-entry protocol
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Generating an action plan for preventing college student suicide
URL: http://www.sprc.org/library/campusapproach.pdf
This presentation (especially slides 51-68) includes a description of the SPRC/Jed Foundation Comprehensive Approach to Suicide Prevention and Mental Health Promotion, a community-based approach to the unique environment of colleges and universities. It is adapted from the U.S. Air Force Suicide Prevention Program and is based upon best practices and the research on risk and protective factors for suicide.
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Identifying and Treating Students at Risk for Suicide: The AFSP College Screening Project (SPRC Discussion Series)
URL: http://www.sprc.org/traininginstitute/disc_series/disc_2.asp
Information from the Discussion Series on Identifying and Treating Students at Risk for Suicide: The AFSP College Screening Project. The Research to Practice Webinar webpage contains an author biography, PowerPoint slides, and an audio file of the discussion.
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In the wake of trauma: Tips for college students
URL: http://www.samhsa.gov/MentalHealth/AfterDisaster.pdf
Flyer with tips for self-care after a traumatic event. Includes helpful resources, treatment locators, and hotlines.
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Involving students as allies in suicide prevention
URL: http://www.sprc.org/grantees/campus/PDF/Malmon_ActiveMinds.pdf
Campus Suicide Prevention Grantee Technical Assistance Meeting. January 17-19, 2007, Gaithersburg, MD. Describes Active Minds, a program that involves students in mental health programming.
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People Prevent Suicide
URL: http://www.peoplepreventsuicide.org/index.php
PeoplePreventSuicide.org aims to provide student leaders, counselors, safety and health professionals, parents, spiritual leaders, senior administrators, faculty/staff, friends and media with toolkits on how to prepare for the prevention of and response to suicide on college campuses. The website offers such resources.
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Promoting mental health and preventing suicide in college and university settings (College White Paper)
URL: http://www.sprc.org/library/college_sp_whitepaper.pdf
This white paper summarizes what is known about suicidal behavior among college students and recommends strategies to promote mental health and prevent suicide on campuses. The writing reflects the views of experts in the field of suicide prevention and proposes a blueprint for planning a comprehensive program.
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Protecting your child's mental health: What can parents do?
URL: http://www.jedfoundation.org/documents/parentsguide.pdf
A brochure for parents of college students. Explains the basics of college metal health system.
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Safeguarding your students against suicide
URL: http://www.nmha.org/suicide/report.pdf
As a follow-up to the National Strategy, a panel of leading experts from various disciplines, convened to participate in Expanding the Safety Net: A Roundtable on Vulnerability, Depressive Symptoms, and Suicidal Behavior on College Campuses. Co-sponsored by the National Mental Health Association (NMHA)and the Jed Foundation, this roundtable was organized to address the significant impact of suicide on college and university campuses and the need for intervention. Objectives incl. thorough understanding of risk factors and conditions that lead to suicidal ideation and suicidal behavior among college students and to establish a set of strategies that can be implemented to enhance intervention and ultimately reduce the rate of suicide, suicide attempts, and related behavior among college students.
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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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Student mental health
URL: http://www.aetnastudenthealth.com/uploads/documents/spectrum/Spectrum_Current_Version.pdf
Student Health Spectrum. 2008 April; Special Issue. Largely drawn from NASPA’s 2008 Strategies Conference on Mental Health: Intervention and collaboration.
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Student mental health and the law: A resource for institutions of higher education
URL: http://www.sprc.org/library/Jed_legal_resource.pdf
A tool to aid colleges in developing awareness of various issues and concerns relating to students' mental health and in developing or revising policies, protocols and procedures suitable to the unique environment of each particular college.
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The truth about suicide: Real stories of depression in college
URL: http://www.afsp.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.viewPage&page_id=05678008-958D-8476-7CD04234DBBBFC69
Website for the film. "The Truth about Suicide: Real Stories of Depression in College" as an outgrowth of its commitment to support colleges and universities in implementing suicide prevention as an integral part of their ongoing campus activities and services. (Description from the site). Site contains info. on how to order the film as well as free downloadable material including fact sheets, facilitator guidelines, and veiwer response sheets.
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Use of screening to identify and engage students at risk: Overview of campus screening, The
URL: http://www.sprc.org/grantees/campus/PDF/Haas_EvaluationScreeningPrograms.pdf
Campus Suicide Prevention Grantee Technical Assistance Meeting. January 17-19, 2007, Gaithersburg, MD. Highlights key issues in designing and implementing a campus-based program to screen students for suicide risk and encourage them to seek help.
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When tragedy strikes: Suicide postvention on a college campus
URL: http://bereavedbysuicide.com/articles/postvention-programs/when-tragedy-strikes-suicide-postvention-on-a-college-campus/
Article on postvention in the college setting. Includes information on: crisis communication; safe messaging and contagion; memorialization; healing and recovery; and survivors in action. Originally printed in the International Association for Suicide Prevention's Postvention Taskforce Newsletter, September 2009
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Youth suicide fact sheet
URL: http://www.suicidology.org/web/guest/stats-and-tools/fact-sheets
This fact sheet presents statistics and major research findings on suicide among: adolescents and young adults(ages 15-19 and 15-24); children (ages 10-14); and college students. Click on Youth and Suicide [PDF] link.
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