September: Focus on Mental Health Awareness, Career Exploration, and Labor Day

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As school and September are now underway, it is a good time to continually remind ourselves about the wonderful iSOSY resources for secondary students navigating their educational goals:

Pathways to HSED and Credentials *English and Spanish
Career Awareness Toolkit
Degrees Open Doors to Success (ACREs Unit 6) *English and Spanish

This year’s theme is “Changing the Narrative on Suicide,” with a call to action to “Start the Conversation.”

Pennsylvania’s Suicide Prevention Month Guide for 2024 is a relevant resource guide for National Suicide Prevention Month. Within the month of September, the week of September 8-14 is recognized as National Suicide Prevention Week and Tuesday, September 10th, marks World Suicide Prevention Day. The resource guide provides examples of activities that you can implement in your organization or community to raise awareness of the importance of suicide prevention. This includes ideas for events, training, social media posts, virtual backgrounds, a sample proclamation, and more. When we work together in our communities, we can save lives.

One of the great collaborative partners that iSOSY recognizes and works with is i2MPACT. They have a plethora of resources for parents to help them support their child’s academic, social, and emotional growth. One of the most popular and comprehensive websites they highlight is PARENTS.COM. Through relatable advice and authentic voices, PARENTS.COM has culturally relevant information to support people in their respective journey of parenthood.