Risk for suicide is often intertwined with other issues. Here’s more about connections between factors that can place someone at risk. Suicide and underage drinking States that passed ...
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Strength based
Focusing on the positives Positive youth development continues to gain momentum, as education and prevention professionals recognize the many benefits of fostering resiliency in students. Among ...
Whole child approach
As stewards of public education in Wyoming, your State Board of Education puts its focus on the whole child. To give our youths the knowledge, skills and abilities they need to be successful in ...
Youth suicide contagion
Nowhere is the influence of peer behaviors on youngsters more alarming—and life-threatening—than youth suicide, and the potential for imitative deaths that can give rise to contagion. Recent ...
Casper contagion
Three student suicides in Casper, Wyoming since October 2003 have moved school administrators to seek new ways to counter this tragedy by teaching suicide prevention. This represents positive ...
Resiliency awareness
Resiliency: what does it look like? CONTROLLING ONE’S OWN BEHAVIOR: Self-adjusting one’s personal performance by planning ahead and evaluating success after completing a task “My part-time ...
Teacher retention
Administrators can improve school culture by enhancing training to help staff better engage students with emotional issues. This, say experts, is important for boosting teacher satisfaction and ...
Transforming systems, lives
“Before we can transform lives, we must first transform how community-based systems work together … the mental well-being of children is not the sole responsibility of the family and ...
Myths: schools and suicide
From NEAL PENBERTHY, Sp.Ed.Ad., retired School Principal and past president of Missouri Association of Secondary School Principal 1. WE’LL GET SUED. Landmark court cases have shown that schools ...
Employer action
Employer call to action What businesses and policy leaders can do to better address economic, emotional burden of depression in the workplace 1. KNOW WHERE YOUR DOLLARS ARE GOING Have a clear ...