The school is an important support system for students, parents and staff and has an important role to play in preventing suicide. Developing a school-based comprehensive approach to youth suicide prevention involves paying attention to various prevention tiers including mental health promotion and promotion of school connectedness, universal prevention, efforts targeted to students with risk factors and supports for those students who are identified at highest risk. A core component for schools is ensuring that school crisis response policies include protocols for helping students at possible risk for suicide and protocols for responding to a suicide death.
The Administrators section includes resources and information on
- School-based suicide prevention
- Postvention
- Guidelines for public education and awareness
- Suicide contagion
- Trauma
- Bullying and suicide
The Staff section includes resources and information on
- Self-compassion and resiliency
- Teacher and student led involvement in suicide prevention
- Hand-outs for parents
- Curriculum-based mental health literacy