Best practices for campus suicide prevention

Campus Suicide Prevention Grantee Technical Assistance Meeting. January 17-19, 2007, Gaithersburg, MD. Discusses: existing best practices; the lexicon of “best practices” theory; and evaluating organizations.

How do school staff benefit from gatekeeper training in suicide prevention?

State/Tribal/Adolescents at Risk Suicide Prevention Grantee Technical Assistance Meeting. December 12–14, 2006, North Bethesda, MD. This presentation by Peter Wyman describes study that tested gatekeeper training in 32 secondary schools. It discusses which staff benefit and how and different types of Gatekeeper training for different staff.

School-based programs

State/Tribal/Adolescents at Risk Suicide Prevention Grantee Technical Assistance Meeting. December 12–14, 2006, North Bethesda, MD. This presentation by Jeff Inman describes the school suicide prevention work of Prevention/Intervention Center of Cobb County (GA).

Suicide prevention in rural America

PowerPoint slides from the New York State Office of Mental Health Statewide Summit on Suicide Prevention in November 14-15, 2005. The slides cover the scope of the problem of suicide in rural America and discuss possible prevention steps.