Blog: Author: Tim Mazer

Student Suicide Prevention

Published on October 13, 2022
A high school student sits in his counselor's office. The counselor is smiling and leaning forward. The student is facing toward the counselor, leaning his chin on his hand.

September was National Suicide Prevention and National Preparedness Month. Now that September has come and gone, how do you feel about your school’s readiness to prevent and respond to student suicide?

The School Resources for Military-Connected Students website offers a series of 42 free, online, on-demand, bite-sized learning modules that examine and talk about preventing and responding to student suicidal ideation, student suicide attempts, and student suicide and those left behind. You can complete the entire series, or you can focus on a specific module or several modules based on your school’s needs. The learning modules are based on research that pertains to student suicide. We invite you to explore the first training in the series, which is listed below:

Readiness to Prevent Student Suicide

  • Create a plan to improve the readiness of you and your school to detect and respond to student suicide ideation.

Additional Resources

Below are additional resources to help you strengthen suicide prevention efforts in your school:

Suicide Prevention Resource Center: School Resources

  • The link above will take you to a website compiled by the Suicide Prevention Resource Center in collaboration with the University of Oklahoma and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). This website houses a variety of resources and information that intend to help schools take action to prevent student suicide. It also offers information on how schools can prepare to react and respond when a student suicide death does occur.

Model Youth Suicide Awareness and Prevention Policy

  • The link above is a resource that was created to identify and inform those involved in school settings about Pennsylvania’s Model Youth Suicide Awareness and Prevention Policy. This was created, exclusively, for school entities.

Preventing Youth Suicide: Brief Facts and Tips

  • The link above is a fact sheet created by the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP), and it includes information about student suicide. This fact sheet provides facts and tips that intend to help school personnel prevent student suicide.

Thank you for all you do to support military-connected students. We hope these resources are useful in your professional practice. If you have questions or need help, visit the Contact Us page to reach out to us. If you would like to receive updates about new trainings or resources, sign up for our Mailing List.

Welcome!

Published on November 10, 2021

Hello and welcome to the School Resources to Support Military-Connected Students website! Our goal is to provide school personnel with free, evidence-based resources to support military-connected students. This project is part of the Clearinghouse for Military Family Readiness, an applied research center at The Pennsylvania State University. This project is funded by the Department of Defense Education Activity Grant number HE1254-19-0009.

This article is the first in our series about the features of this website. In this article, we will focus on the trainings available to support school personnel in their work with military-connected students.

We have created a variety of free, evidence-based, on-demand, online trainings related to the following categories:

Our trainings are designed to fit into the busy schedules of school personnel. Each training is only 10-15 minutes in length and focuses on a single, actionable skill. At the end of each training, a grab-and-go resource is provided to help you implement the skill into your daily practice. Most trainings do not require any prerequisites so you can focus on the trainings that would be most helpful to you. To identify the trainings that would be most helpful to you,  you can search and/or filter all available trainings by category or recommended audience (i.e., teachers, administrators, school psychologists, school counselors, school nurses).

Thank you for all you do to support military-connected students. We hope these resources are useful in your professional practice. If you have questions or need help, visit the Contact Us page to learn how to reach out to us. If you would like to receive updates about new trainings or resources when they are available, sign up for our Mailing List.