Join a fireside chat with a moderated panel of national education and suicide prevention experts and leaders who discuss why there is increased attention to suicide prevention in districts and schools and the effective strategies or programs that greatly enhance these efforts.
About the Event
As leaders and educators move quickly to support the mental health needs of students, they have also acknowledged that suicide prevention is an important topic that often requires more support in practice and policy than has traditionally existed.
Join our EDC Solutions for Education & Wellbeing team on Tuesday, May 17th at 2pm EST for a fireside chat with a moderated panel of national education experts and leaders. Our panelists will discuss the increased need and attention to suicide prevention in schools. They will discuss effective strategies and programs that they have seen greatly enhance suicide prevention efforts at the district, school, and classroom levels.
We invite you to contribute to this rich conversation and hope our recommended resources prove helpful. If you are unable to join the webinar, register anyway and we’ll send you post-event materials.
Resources
- Research
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Research mentioned during the webinar:
- CDC Youth Mental Health Resources (including Youth Risk Behavior Survey Summary Report)
- Mental Health by the Numbers (infographics)
- Surgeon General Advisory on Youth Mental Health
- SAMHSA Preventing Suicide: A Toolkit for High Schools
- After a Suicide: A Toolkit for Schools
- Model School District Policy on Suicide Prevention
- Tools
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Tools for suicide prevention in schools:
- SAMHSA Preventing Suicide: A Toolkit for High Schools
- After a Suicide: A Toolkit for Schools
- Model School District Policy on Suicide Prevention
- SAMHSA Recommendations for School-Based Suicide Prevention Screenings
- Screening/Assessing Students: Indicators and Tools
- Stanley-Brown Safety Planning
- SAMHSA Evidence-Based Resource Guide Series on Treatment for Suicidal Ideation, Self-Harm, and Suicide Attempts Among Youth
- Training
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Training from EDC Solutions:
Shawna Hite-Jones works in state, community, and school-based suicide prevention at EDC and has supported the development of EDC’s Community-Led Suicide Prevention Toolkit.
Dr. Julie Goldstein Grumet, Director of the Zero Suicide Institute, provides strategic direction to healthcare systems to improve the identification and treatment of people at risk for suicide.
John Crocker, Director of School Mental Health & Behavioral Services at Methuen Public Schools, is also the founder and director of the Massachusetts School Mental Health Consortium.