EDC's Out of School Time Youth Suicide Prevention Toolkit helps youth-serving organizations implement system-wide approaches to promote well-being and prevent suicide.
A Toolkit for Youth-Serving Organizations
Whether your organization is just beginning this work or building on existing efforts, this toolkit provides practical guidance to help you promote protective factors against suicide, identify and support youth at increased risk for suicide, and respond effectively following a crisis.
Out of School Time Youth Suicide Prevention Toolkit: Strengthening Systems, Partnerships, and Protective Factors in Youth-Serving Organizations is informed by EDC's decades of experience helping organizations take a systems-based approach to strengthening policies, practices, and organizational capacity to support youth mental health and suicide prevention.
Unlike resources that focus just on one-time trainings, this toolkit provides more than a dozen templates, handouts, protocols, and action-planning tools that guide the development of protocols, roles, partnerships, and supportive environments needed to build a comprehensive approach to suicide prevention.
The Out of School Time Youth Suicide Prevention Toolkit includes approaches adapted from EDC's comprehensive suicide prevention frameworks: Zero Suicide in Health and Behavioral Healthcare, Multi-Tiered Suicide Prevention for Schools, and Community-Led Suicide Prevention.
Getting Started Guide
The Out of School Time’s Getting Started Guide can help your organization to identify the best first steps in developing systemwide suicide prevention based on your current level of readiness. Use this guide to find the OST Toolkit content and resources most relevant to your goals in youth suicide prevention.
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EDC provides consultation and technical assistance to help educators integrate suicide prevention and mental health supports into the classroom. Learn more about EDC's Education & Wellbeing services or contact us at solutions@edc.org.