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Promoting Self-Care: Suicide prevention education often emphasizes the importance of self-care and mental well-being. Individuals can learn strategies to manage stress, build resilience, and maintain good mental health, reducing the risk of suicidal thoughts.
Suicide Prevention. Suicide is the third-leading cause of death for teens, after accidents and homicide. About 1 in 15 high school students attempt suicide each year, and roughly 1 in 50 make an attempt serious enough to require medical attention.
After a Suicide: A Toolkit for Schools, developed by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and the Suicide Prevention Resource Center, is a valuable guide to help school personnel prepare for the tumultuous and stressful aftermath of a student suicide and to help prevent future tragedies.
To understand the characteristics of students who are at higher risk to attempt suicide, warning signs of suicidal teens, and what to do if a friend is suicidal. To practice needed skills by ...
Texas Advancing Suicide Safer Schools Roadmap provides key planning steps needed to develop a comprehensive suicide prevention, intervention and postvention plan for Texas schools. This 8 step approach provides references to best practice information, tools, and resources to help school districts in their planning process.
a suicide prevention and intervention plan in schools. These include attention to messaging, development of supportive community frameworks, and composition of crisis response teams.
More Than Sad: Suicide Prevention Education for Teachers and Other School Personnel is an approximately 120-minute program that teaches educators to recognize signs of mental health distress in students and refer them for help.
