Prevention

• Staff Development

  Identified district employees shall attend an annual training in suicide prevention and self-injury.  The training shall include but is not limited to the identification of risk factors, warning signs, protective factors, response procedures, district referral process, and postvention. Resources regarding youth suicide, including those living with mental and/or substance use disorders, those who engage in self-harm or have attempted suicide, those in out-of-home settings, those experiencing homelessness, American Indian/Alaska Native students, LGBTQ students, students bereaved by suicide and those with medical conditions or certain types of disabilities.

  Additional professional development will be provided to designated school suicide prevention points of contact. Some additional training opportunities would include Question, Persuade, and Refer (QPR), Suicide Prevention Intervention Workshop, and Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST).

• Youth Suicide Prevention Programming

  Developmentally appropriate, student-centered education materials shall be integrated into the K-12 curriculum. The content of these age-appropriate materials shall include the importance of safe and healthy choices and coping strategies, how to recognize risk factors and warning signs of mental disorders and suicide in oneself and others, help-seeking strategies for oneself or others, including how to engage school resources and refer friends to help.