How To Implement Suicide Prevention Strategies in High Schools

Preventing Suicide: A Toolkit for High Schools assists in designing and implementing strategies to prevent suicide and promote behavioral health. It includes tools to implement a multifaceted suicide prevention program that responds to students' needs and cultures.

The toolkit will help schools:

• Assess the ability to prevent suicide among students and to respond to suicides that may occur.
• Understand strategies that can help students who are at risk for suicide.
• Understand how to respond to the suicide of a student or other member of the school community.
• Integrate suicide prevention into activities that fulfill other aspects of the school's mission, such as preventing the abuse of alcohol and other drugs.

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SAMHSA is a public health agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Its mission is to reduce the impact of substance abuse and mental illness on America's communities.