TOPIC: Suicide Prevention

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Center Developed Documents, Resources, and Tools

Center Policy Issues Analysis Brief
• Suicide Prevention in Schools

Introductory Packets
• Assessing to Address Barriers to Learning
• Introductory Packet: Affect and Mood Problems related to School Aged Youth

Information Resource
• Suicide Prevention and Schools: Some Basic Information

Newsletter
• Youth Suicide/Depression/Violence

Other
• Hotline Numbers

Presentation and Training Aid
• Youth Suicide Prevention: Mental Health and Public Health Perspectives

Quick Training Aids
• Suicide Prevention
• Case Management in the School Context

Resource Aid Packet
• Responding to Crisis at a School
• Screening/Assessing Students: Indicators and Tools

Practice Notes
• About Supporting Those Who Seem Depressed
• Suicidal Crisis
• When a Student Seems Dangerous to Self or Others

Technical Aid Packets
• School-Based Client Consultation, Referral, and Management of Care
• School-Based Mutual Support Groups (For Parents, Staff, and Older Students)

Technical Assistance Samplers
• Sampling of Outcome Findings from Interventions Relevant to Addressing Barriers to Learning
• School Interventions to Prevent Youth Suicide

Assessment
• A Measure of Adolescent Potential for Suicide (MAPS): Development and Preliminary Findings
• Detecting Suicide Risk in a Pediatric Emergency Department: Development of a Brief Screening Tool
• Feasibility of Screening Adolescents for Suicide Risk in "Real-World" High School Settings
• Facts and Warning Signs for Suicidal Thoughts in Children
• School Connectedness and Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors: A Systematic Meta-Analysis
• School Screening Programs
• Screening for Mental Health: Depression
• Trends in the prevalence of suicide-related behaviors national YRBS: 1991-2017

Prevention
• Addressing a Crisis: Cross-Sector Strategies to Prevent Adolescent Substance Use and Suicide
• After a Suicide: A Toolkit for Schools
• A Comprehensive Approach to Suicide Prevention
• Beliefs about suicide prevention by excluding the phenomenon versus the person: The role of cultural orientation, attitudes towards suicide, and social reactions to suicidal persons in Turkish university students
• Better Ways To Prevent Suicide
• Blueprint for Youth Suicide Prevention
• Choosing and Implementing a Suicide Prevention Gatekeeper Training Program
• Exploring multiple pathways and mediation effects of urban environmental factors for suicide prevention
• K-12 Toolkit for Mental Health Promotion and Suicide Prevention
• Model School District Policy on Suicide Prevention
• Lifelines: A Suicide Prevention Program
• Question, Persuade, Refer: Suicide Prevention
• SAMHSA-Resources for Suicide Prevention
• Save Program: Suicide Prevention
• Research-Based Guidelines and Practices for School-Based Suicide Prevention
• School Based Suicide Prevention Programs
• School Based Youth Suicide Prevention Guide
• Secondary Teachers' Perceptions of Their Role in Suicide Prevention and Intervention
• Sources of Strength: Youth Suicide Prevention
• State Requirements for School Personnel Suicide Prevention Training
• State Suicide Prevention Planning: A CDC Research Brief, 2008
• Strategies and interventions to reduce suicide
• Suicide Awareness & Prevention for Healthcare Students
• Suicide prevention in schools: What are states doing?
• Suicide Prevention Resource Center
• Suicidal Thoughts and Behavior in Children and Adolescents: An Ecological Model of Resilence
• The Surgeon General's Call to Action to Implement the National Strategy for Suicide Prevention
• Ten Recommendations for Effective School-Based, Adolescent, Suicide Prevention Programs
• Youth Suicide Prevention and intervention: Best Practices and Policy Implications

Intervention
• HOTLINE - The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
  Also can be accessed by calling 1-800-273-TALK (8255).
  The lifeline is a toll-free suicide prevention hotline that provides free and confidential crisis counseling to anyone in need 24/7.
• Youth suicide and self-Harm Prevention: 2017 Resource Guide
• The Evaluation of Interventions to Prevent Suicide
• Issues to Consider in Intervention Research with Persons at High Risk for Suicidality
• Suicide & Bullying: Preventing Suicide through Collaborative Upstream Interventions

Fact/Information Material
• "Child Suicide and the Schools"
• Fast Stats Self-Inflicted Injury/Suicide
• How to talk to a child about a suicide attempt in your family
• National Trends and Disparities in Bullying and Suicidal Behavior Across Demographic Subgroups of US Adolescents
• National Suicide Statistics at a Glance
• Suicide and self harm in the US
• Suicide Fact Sheet

Other (including Research Findings)
• Addressing a Crisis: Cross-Sector Strategies to Prevent Adolescent Substance Use and Suicide
• Addressing Discrimination Supports Youth Suicide Prevention Efforts
• Breaking Down Barriers: Using Youth Suicide-Related Surveillance Data From State Systems
• Childhood Abuse, Household Dysfunction, and the Risk of Attempted Suicide Throughout the Life Span: Findings from the Adverse Childhood Experiences Study
• Connecting Adolescent Suicide to the Severity of Bullying and Cyberbullying
• Cyberbullying and suicide: a research summary.- A Cyberbullying Research Center Report, 2010
• Examining the Unanticipated Adverse Consequences of Youth Suicide Prevention Strategies: A Literature Review with Recommendations for Prevention Programs
• General Suicide Education (CDC)
• Model School District Policy on Sucicide Prevention
• Media Contagion and Suicide among the Young
• Pediatric suicide-related presentations: A systematic review of mental health care in the emergency department
• Prevent Temporal Variations in School-Associated Violent Deaths (PDF Document, 131K)
• Suicide risk profile and the social convoy: Population-level patterns of the young generation's help-seeking behavior and implications for suicide prevention
• Reporting on Suicide: Recommendations for the Media
• Risk and Protective Factors for Suicide
• School Gatekeeper Training (CDC)
• Suicidal People on the Internet: A University of Queensland (Australia) Study, 2009
• "Suicide" query prompts Google to offer hotline: A New York Times article, 2010
• Suicide Contagion and the Reporting of Suicide
• Suicide Prevention in Schools: What Are States Doing to Prevent Youth Suicide?
• Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBBS)
• Youth Suicide Prevention School-Based Guide