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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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After a suicide: A postvention prevention primer for providers: URL: http://lifegard.tripod.com/After_a_Suicide.pdf
Geared toward behavioral health care providers, this newsletter article examines many aspects of responding to survivors including what to say or not say, ways in which grief differs from that of other deaths, associations between mental illness and suicide or suicide loss, and postvention "first aid".
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After a suicide: Recommendations for religious services and other public memorial observances: URL: http://www.sprc.org/library/aftersuicide.pdf
A guide to help community and faith leaders who plan memorial observances and provide support for individuals after the loss of a loved one to suicide.
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CDC Recommendations for a Community Plan for the Prevention and Containment of Suicide Clusters: URL: http://wonder.cdc.gov/wonder/PrevGuid/p0000214/p0000214.asp
Published as: MMWR 37(S-6);1-12. Recommendations in this report were developed to assist community leaders in public health, mental health, education, and other fields to develop a community response plan for suicide clusters or for situations that might develop into suicide clusters. A workshop for developing these recommendations was jointly sponsored by the New Jersey State Department of Health and CDC on November 16-17, 1987, in Newark New Jersey.
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Coming together to care: A suicide prevention and postvention toolkit for Texas Communities: URL: http://texassuicideprevention.org/docs_pdf/24215-Mental_Health_09_Suicide_Prev_Book_Complete_FINAL.pdf
This suicide prevention toolkit for Texas communities is organized in two parts. The first covers the basic knowledge that people need to have in order to act effectively on this issue, and the second covers actions they can take once they have that basic knowledge. The authors' goal is to make this a very practical resource that community leaders can easily use in efforts to prevent suicide deaths in Texas. Updates to the toolkit will be posted periodically on the Texas Suicide Prevention Council website at http://www.TexasSuicidePrevention.org/ (Description from the document introduction)
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Community-based suicide postvention guidelines for Wisconsin: URL: http://www.mhawisconsin.org/content/communitybasedguidelines.asp
Community-based model of suicide prevention, intervention and postvention for Wisconsin.
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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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Coping after a suicide: URL: http://www.familyaware.org/coping_after_suicide.php
This brochure is developed to help family members and friends of a loved one who has died by suicide. Note: registration is required to gain access to a PDF file or request a hard copy of the brochure.
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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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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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Help at Hand-Supporting survivors of suicide loss: A guide for funeral directors: Physical Location/Acquisition Information: Hard copies can be ordered through the SAMHSA Mental Health Information Center http://nmhicstore.samhsa.gov/publications/ordering.aspx Inventory no. SMA09-4375
URL: http://www.sprc.org/library/funeraldirectors.pdf
This 16-page brochure for funeral directors who are working with suicide survivors covers what's different about suicide deaths, tending to the complex needs of survivors, and dealing with compassion fatigue.
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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 can emergency responders help grieving individuals?: URL: http://www.sprc.org/library/EMHelpGrievingIndividuals.pdf
(1 page). Describes the reactions of grieving individuals and offers general advice on responding.
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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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Lifeline online postvention manual: Physical Location/Acquisition Information: Case examples are available by emailing Jessica Hass at JHaas@mhaofnyc.org
URL: http://www.sprc.org/library/LifelineOnlinePostventionManual.pdf
The recommendations in this manual detail how to safely memorialize someone who has died by suicide. These guidelines can be applied to online memorials and online messages about the deceased.
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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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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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Parent Information Sheets: URL: http://www.sptsnj.org/parents/
This webpage, which includes seven multiple media links, relates stories of parents who have lost a child to suicide and provides guidance to parents on how to talk to their teens about suicide, suicide contagion, or the death of a friend by suicide.
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The police and mental health: URL: http://ps.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/reprint/53/10/1266
With deinstitutionalization and the influx into the community of persons with severe mental illness, the police have become frontline professionals who manage these persons when they are in crisis. This article examines and comments on the issues raised by this phenomenon as it affects both the law enforcement and mental health systems.
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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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Practical Information onCrisis Planning: A guide for schools and communities: URL: http://www.ed.gov/admins/lead/safety/emergencyplan/crisisplanning.pdf
This guide is intended to give schools, districts, and communities the critical concepts and components of good crisis planning, stimulate thinking about the crisis preparedness process, and provide examples of promising practices.
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Preventing suicide: How to start a survivors' group: URL: http://www.who.int/mental_health/prevention/suicide/resource_survivors.pdf
This manual discusses needs of suicide survivors, ways in which self-help groups can help as well as providing guidance on how to establish a survivors' support group
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Reporting on suicide: Recommendations for the media: URL: http://www.sprc.org/library/sreporting.pdf
These unified recommendations for reporting on suicide were developed at a consensus workshop co-sponsored by Annenberg Public Policy Center and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. Workshop participants also included the American Association of Suicidology, Office of the Surgeon General, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute of Mental Health, Substance Abuse and Mental Health SerÃ�Âvices Administration, World Health Organization, National Swedish Centre for Suicide Research and New Zealand Youth Suicide Prevention Strategy.
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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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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-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 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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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 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 contagion: URL: http://suicideandmentalhealthassociationinternational.org/suiconclust.html
This article defines the terminology of suicide contagion and answers basic questions about the phenomena of suicide clusters.
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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 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 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: 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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Surviving after suicide: URL: http://www.suicidology.org/web/guest/stats-and-tools/fact-sheets
Survivors of suicide represent Ã¯Â¿Â½the largest mental health casualties related to suicide.Ã¯Â¿Â½ This fact sheet describes: suicidal grief; major sources of support; and children as survivors. Click on Surviving after Suicide [PDF] link.
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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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To Live to See the Great Day that Dawns: Preventing Suicide by American Indian and Alaska Native Youth and Young Adults: URL: http://www.sprc.org/library/Suicide_Prevention_Guide.pdf
The purpose of this guide is to support AI/AN communities and those who serve them in developing effective, culturally appropriate suicide prevention plans. This guide lays the groundwork for comprehensive prevention planning, with prevention broadly defined to include programs that a community can use to promote the mental health of its young. The guide also covers actions community can take in response to a suicide to help the community heal and thereby prevent related suicidal behaviors.
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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 document prepares school staff to talk with adolescents about reactions they may experience around the anniversary date of a peer's death by suicide.
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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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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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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 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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