The Suicide Prevention Resource Center has published a step-by -step model that touches on nine components of suicide prevention. Click on each heading to learn important prevention strategies.
A Comprehensive Approach to Suicide Prevention
- Identify and Assist
- Increase Help-Seeking
- Effective Care/Treatment
- Care Transitions/Linkages
- Respond to Crisis
- Postvention
- Reduce Access to Means
- Life Skills and Resilience
- Connectedness
If you are struggling with thoughts of suicide or worried about a friend or loved one, help is available. Call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255 [TALK] for free, confidential emotional support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
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Culture of Caring: A Suicide Prevention Guide for Schools (K-12) was
created as a resource for educators who want to know how to get started and
what steps to take to create a suicide prevention plan that will work for their
schools and districts. It is written from my perspective as a school principal
and survivor of suicide loss, not an expert in psychology or counseling. I hope
that any teacher, school counselor, psychologist, principal, or district
administrator can pick up this book, flip to a chapter, and easily find helpful
answers to the questions they are likely to have about what schools can do to
prevent suicide.