Helping Students at Risk for Suicide

This fall, in partnership with Suicide Prevention Center of New York and MHA Westchester, we're leading a new workshop, Helping Students at Risk for Suicide. This training is designed to improve skills, processes, and protocol for helping students at risk for suicide through:

1. Equipping educators with tools, knowledge, and skills to assist students having thoughts of suicide or engaging in suicidal behavior;
2. Understanding the necessity of pre-planning and standardized procedures for safety planning;
3. Identifying the importance of collaboration and shared decision making among school mental health professionals, administrators, community providers, and the student and their family in managing students at risk for suicide;
4. Viewing an example of documenting risk of suicide and safety planning; and
5. Being prepared to develop and implement standardized procedures in their schools/district that reflect best practice for helping students at risk.

CLICK HERE to learn more and register, and HERE to access NYSED's updated "Guide for Suicide Prevention for School Personnel". Be sure to see below for our updated calendar and resources, and reply to this email if you have questions and/or would like to bring professional learning to your school.

Join Us!

• Join our Yale RULER Cohort

• 8/3: Understanding and Supporting Gender Diverse Students - NYSCSS

• Starting 8/16: School Leadership within a DBT Frame: Applying DBT skills to increase effective leadership and reduce educator burnout - with Dr. Lata McGinn and CBC team

• 8/17: Specially Designed Instruction for Administrators - with Anna Massaro

• Starting 8/23: Self-Care Coaching Circle for Leaders - with Rob Lieblein

• 9/22: Administrators' Role in Leading Their School to Successful Implementation of the DBT STEPS-A Curriculum - with Dr. James Mazza and Dr. Lizz Dexter-Mazza

• 9/23: Stabilizing Chaos: Psychological First Aid to Foster Resilience in the Wake of Traumatic Events - with Dr. Lata McGinn, part of the Virtual CE Talks Series with the CBC team

• 9/23: Booster Session for PBIS Tier 1 Team Training - with Sara Fienup and Erin Leskovic

• Starting 9/29: DBT STEPS-A Intermediate Workshop: Advancing Classroom Implementation & Impact - with Dr. James Mazza and Dr. Lizz Dexter-Mazza

• Starting 10/6: LGBTQ+ Inclusive Schools Collaborative - with Dr. Andrew Ecker and partners from Center Lane and GLSEN



• Starting 10/19: DBT Skills in Schools: Launching Classroom SEL Implementation with the DBT STEPS-A Curriculum - with Dr. James Mazza and Dr. Lizz Dexter-Mazza

• 10/27: Helping Students at Risk for Suicide - with Dr. Andrew Ecker and Nellana Flores

• 11/9: Restorative Practices: Proactive and Preventative Ways to Reduce Conflict, Bullying, and Aggressive Behaviors - with Kara Santucci

Resources

• Learn about the new 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline

• Embracing a New Normal: Toward a More Liberatory Approach to Family Engagement (Carnegie Corp.)

• Tips for Grounding & Regulation (BEAM)

• Black and LGBTQ - Approaching Intersectional Conversations (The Trevor Project)

• Affirming Care for Transgender and Gender Expansive Youth (NCTSN)