Extra Resources to Implement Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Awareness in Your School

I have had the honor and privilege of speaking for some education conferences recently. In both my keynote and breakout sessions, I share the importance of all of us being advocates and working together to make change happen when it comes to mental health and suicide awareness in schools. We all have a part to play, but sometimes it seems that it's difficult to know where to start. Below, I have listed some professional resources and organizations that have worked diligently to put together programs that are effective in helping educators get trained and aware of how to help their students.

Extra Resources to Implement Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Awareness in Your School:

https://www.mentalhealth.gov/talk/educators

https://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/protective/school_connectedness.htm

School Connectedness: 6 Strategies for Increasing Protective Factors Among Youth: https://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/protective/pdf/connectedness.pdf

https://afsp.org/our-work/advocacy/public-policy-priorities/suicide-prevention-in-schools

Mental Health First Aid Training:

https:/www.mentalhealthfirstaid.org/take-a-course/