Review your role in our schools suicide prevention strategy Help you better recognize students who may be at risk Provide an effective initial response to these students Clarify how to refer students for further help ID: 331601
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Faculty and Staff TrainingSlide2
Review your role in our school’s suicide prevention strategy
Help you better recognize students who may be at riskProvide an effective initial response to these students
Clarify how to refer students for further help
Workshop ObjectivesSlide3
Third-leading cause of death in adolescents
There are 50 to 200 attempts for every completionEvery day, there are approximately 11 youth suicides
Every 2 hours and 11 minutes, a person under the age of 25 dies
by suicide
Why Talk about Youth Suicide?Slide4
School systems are not responsible for meeting every need of their students, but when the need directly affects learning, the school must meet the challenge.”
Carnegie Task Force on Education
The School’s Role in Suicide Prevention
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1. To increase the probability that persons who come into contact with potentially suicidal adolescents:
a. can more readily identify them
b. know how to respond to them
c. know how to rapidly obtain help
for them d. will be consistently inclined to take such
action
2.
To make sure troubled youth are aware of and have access to helping resources
so that they are inclined to seek help as an alternative to suicide
Lifelines
ObjectivesSlide6
To present relevant facts about suicide
To alert students to signs of suicide risk in peers and encourage serious responsesTo outline ways to respond to
troubled peersTo demonstrate positive attitudes about intervention and help-seeking behavior
To identify resources
Curriculum Learning ObjectivesSlide7
Provides an effective initial response to potentially suicidal students
(do You know what to do?)Knows where to refer students for additional assistance (do you know who to refer students to?)
The Competent
School Community
in Suicide PreventionSlide8
Identification
Support and Response
Education
Suicide Prevention StrategiesSlide9
Characteristics of Suicide
1. An alternative to what is seen
as an unsolvable problem2. Thinking is in crisis mode
3. Considered to be a means
of communicationSlide10
Identifying Risk Factors, Warning Signs, and Protective Factors
Your Role
as EducatorsSlide11
Demographics
Psychiatric history
Drug/alcohol abuse
Previous suicide attempt
Family history of suicideExposure to another’s suicideExperience of stressful life eventsPersonality factors
Access to means
Risk FactorsSlide12
F
= FeelingsA = Actions
C = Changes
T = Threats
S = Situations
Warning SignsSlide13
Every threat should be taken seriously
RememberSlide14
What to Do about
Warning Signs
Consult with school
resource staff
Counselors
Intervention
Specialist
LSSPSlide15
Listen
Know your limitsKnow your resourcesFollow up
Talking with
StudentsSlide16
Personal, behavioral,
or situational characteristics that contribute to resiliency and serve as a buffer against risk
Protective FactorsSlide17
Caring relationship with
a trusted adult
Sense of connection or
participation in school
Positive self-esteem and good coping skillsAccess to care for emotional/physical problems, substance abuse
Cultural/religious beliefs that discourage suicide and promote self-preservation
Protective FactorsSlide18
The competent school community engages all members in suicide prevention activities
The competent school community can increase the effectiveness of responses to at-risk teens, their families, and friends
Putting It All TogetherSlide19
www.sptsnj.org
Society for the Prevention of Teen Suicide
F
ocuses on resources for the competent school community
www.sprc.orgSuicide Prevention Resource CenterNational resource
www.afsp.org
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
Printed materials & resources
www.suicidology.org
American Association of Suicidology
Data, resources, links
www.maine.gov/suicide
Maine Youth Suicide Prevention Program
Extensive resources and information on youth suicide
www.maine.gov/suicide/youth
Maine Teen Suicide Prevention
Resources and information for teens
Additional Resources