What Every Parent Should Know about Preventing Youth
Suicide
Parents are often the first people to notice early
signs of risk for youth suicide, but too often these changes
aren't recognized as warning signs until it's too late.
This brochure provides parents with a guide to signs of
depression and appropriate steps for working with school
student services providers to get a young person the help
they need.
What Are Friends For? (teen suicide prevention brochure)
The What Are Friends For? brochure reminds
teens that even when things get tough, there are answers
to their problems and people who care and understand.
The brochure points out warnings signs for depression
and suicide that teens may notice in their friends or
in themselves and urges teens to never keep a potential
suicide secret but instead to seek help from a professional
counselor or other appropriate adult.
What Every Teacher Should Know about Preventing Youth
Suicide
Teachers working with young people are usually the first
to notice when a student begins to show signs of depression,
which can lead to suicide. This brochure provides teachers
with a guide to signs of depression and appropriate steps
for working with parents to get the young person the help
they need.
When It's More Than "Just Feeling Blue"
- Preventing Suicide among the Aging in Virginia
For some older adults, physcial or emotional pain prevents
them from enjoying their later years. If their pain is
not addressed, they may eventually consider taking their
own life as a way to find relief. This brochure points
out some common causes of suicidal thoughts or behavior
in older adults, as well as some signals that an older
adult is considering suicide and how to take action in
preventing suicide.
Materials
from Other Organizations
The Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC) Releases
the Suicide Awareness Event Resource Kit
SPRC is pleased to announce the publication of the Suicide
Awareness
Event Resource Kit. Produced as a collaborative effort between
SPRC and
the Suicide Prevention Action Network USA (SPAN USA), the
kit is a
compilation of the best tools that SPAN USA and its members
have used in
organizing successful awareness events in many state capitols
and in
Washington, D.C.
The result of a decade-long collective experience of SPAN
USA advocates,
this kit provides all of the resource materials necessary
to organize,
plan, and conduct a suicide awareness event. Among the key
resources in
the kit are a logistics planning guide, sample publicity
materials, state
and national suicide data sheets, and state legislative
contact and session
information.
The Suicide Awareness Event Resource Kit is available for
reading and
downloading from the SPRC website at http://www.sprc.org/library/event_kit/
INHALANT.ORG: www.inhalant.org
On March 9th, the Alliance for Consumer Education launched
an inhalant abuse prevention kit at a national press conference
in Washington DC. The kit was tested in 6 pilot states across
the country (Alabama, Alaska, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas,
and Virginia) and in October, phase two of the project will
begin with a large scale roll-out across the country.
The kit includes a facilitators guide, interactive CD-Rom,
brochures, poster, FAQ sheet, pencil, and evaluation forms.
It is intended to provide adults with the tools needed to
talk to children about this issue. To find out more about
this program, please contact Colleen Creighton at ccreighton@consumered.org
View
Inhalant Abuse Brochure (English)
View
Inhalant Abuse Brochure (Spanish)
