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Building community competence: The role of gatekeepers in preventing late life tragedies
URL: http://wdh.state.wy.us/Media.aspx?mediaId=1104
[10 pages]. This article describes one approach to a community-based suicide prevention program for home-dwelling and impaired at-risk elders. By training public and private citizens in surveillance, detection and referral skills, isolated and at-risk elders were identified for home visits by professional service providers. These trained “gatekeepers” become a life-saving link in the delivery of essential medical, psychiatric and social support services.
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But is it relevant? - Gatekeeper education in Idaho’s rural, frontier and tribal Areas
URL: http://www.sprc.org/grantees/pdf/2006/Kirkwood_rural.pdf
State/Tribal/Adolescents at Risk Suicide Prevention Grantee Technical Assistance Meeting. December 12–14, 2006, North Bethesda, MD. Discusses how to modify suicide prevention trainings for rural and frontier communities needs.
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Comparison table of suicide prevention gatekeeper training programs
URL: http://www.sprc.org/library/SPRC_Gatekeeper_Matrix.pdf
A comparison table of programs that are listed and described in the SPRC/AFSP Best Practices Registry. Viewers can click on the title of each program to read more information about it. Each program is described in terms of requirements, audiences, highlights and program objectives. This chart was originally created in 2006 with the Louisiana Spirit Suicide Prevention Summit Meeting planning committee and is continually updated by SPRC.
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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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Gatekeeper training - Published articles focused on evaluation
URL: http://www.sprc.org/library/GKT_bibliography.pdf
Bibliography of published articles on gatekeeper training compiled by Linda Langford, Sc.D., November 2009.
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Gatekeeper training: background
URL: http://www.sprc.org/grantees/pdf/2006/Rodgers_GatekeeperTraining.pdf
State/Tribal/Adolescents at Risk Suicide Prevention Grantee Technical Assistance Meeting. December 12–14, 2006, North Bethesda, MD.
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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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Preventing youth suicide through gatekeeper training: A resource book for gatekeepers
URL: http://www.maine.gov/suicide/docs/gkeepbook.pdf
This book is intended to be used as part of an interactive youth suicide prevention gatekeeper training. As it contains more information than can possibly be covered in a one-day training, it is also designed to serve as a resource book for trained gatekeepers.
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Recognize, connect! - Helping youth at risk of Suicide: A Frameworks training for Gatekeepers (Presentation)
URL: http://www.sprc.org/grantees/pdf/2006/DeMello_GatekeeperTraining.pdf
State/Tribal/Adolescents at Risk Suicide Prevention Grantee Technical Assistance Meeting. December 12–14, 2006, North Bethesda, MD. Describes how the Gatekeeper training uses different training models: logic, ecological, and "train trainer". Discusses the project sustainability and lessons learned in New Hampshire.
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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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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 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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Tennessee’s state-wide Gatekeeper training: Preliminary outcomes and lessons learned
URL: http://www.sprc.org/grantees/statetribe/2009/PDF/GLSMAplenarySchutLockmanFeb09revision.pdf
Garrett Lee Smith Suicide Prevention Grantee Meeting, January 5-9, 2009, Phoenix, AZ. Presents an evaluation of the Tennessee Lives Count (TLC) Youth Suicide Prevention Gatekeeper Training, based on six month interviews and Serious Incident Reports collected from the Tennessee Department of Children’s Services.
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