Resource Types: Fact Sheet/Issue Brief

This information sheet describes appropriate after-care for students, staff, and parents after a suicide or attempt to ensure their safety and prevent future attempts.

This issue brief describes how focus group data are different than survey data. It provides guidance on how to convene focus groups in order to obtain rich qualitative data. 

A fact sheet about suicide among adolescents and young adults.

This handout describes the problem of depression, symptoms, risk factors, ways to determine if a student is depressed, available treatment options and how to access them, and whole school approaches to prevent suicide.

This issue brief draws from the research to provide guidance for responding to suicide in a manner that supports grieving while mitigating contagion.

This fact sheet discusses emotional and behavioral health problems in children and youth and the role of psychotropic medications in treatment, including safety, indications for specific medications, and side effects. Suicide is mentioned as both a symptom of a condition and a side effect of certain medications.

Short fact sheet providing five guidelines on responding to students after a suicide in the school community.

Factsheet on depression and men.

A two-page fact sheet containing information on adolescent rural suicide prevention.