© 2014 shannon rauh, m.ed. director of training youth suicide prevention program
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Shannon Rauh, M.Ed.Director of Training
Youth Suicide Prevention Program
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Youth Suicide Prevention ProgramMission
• To reduce youth suicide attempts and deaths in Washington State.
Vision
• YSPP envisions a state where youth suicide is a rare event, where young people are nurtured and supported, where individuals and families are aware of risk factors for suicide and actively seek help from accessible, effective community resources. We seek to break the taboo that suicide is something you shouldn’t talk about, and to change the public's resistance by acknowledging the problem with pro-active awareness and prevention efforts.
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Why Talk About Suicide…
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Youth suicide: the facts• An average of 2 youth between the ages of 10 and 24 die
by suicide each week in Washington State.
• 15% of WA 6th graders, 17% of 8th graders, 19% of 10th graders and 17% of seniors reported seriously considering suicide in the last year.
• Youth suicides outnumber youth homicides.
• Suicide is the second leading cause of death for WA youth.
• Suicide risk is reduced by increasing protective factors and working to change risk factors.
• Peers and adults outside the family play a key role in prevention.
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YSPP’s Menu of Trainings:
• Networks for Life
• Postvention
• Peer to Peer
• Self-Harm
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YSPP’s Menu of Trainings:• OUTLoud
– Safe and Accepted – Safe From Bullies, Saving Lives– You Are Not Alone
• LivingWorks
– ASIST (Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training)– SafeTALK
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YSPP’s Menu of Trainings:
• Riding the Waves - Elementary school
• Look, Listen, Link - Middle school
• H.E.L.P - High school
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Teaching about suicide prevention• Make sure you have permission
• Make sure your institution is prepared
• Make sure mental health resources in your community are prepared
• Make sure you are prepared
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YSPP’s classroom curriculum modules
H.E.L.P. for high school
Riding the Waves for late elementary school
Look, Listen, Link for middle school
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YSPP’s classroom curriculum modules• Age-appropriate, interactive lessons on stress, depression,
coping and suicide• Quality lessons compatible with state standards and pilot
tested by counselors and teachers in Washington• H.E.L.P. and Look, Listen, Link are listed on the Suicide
Prevention Resource Center’s Best Practices Registry• Ready to deliver in class-period segments• $50 plus tax within Washington state, including training
on implementation. You can order at www.yspp.org.
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Safe and Accepted: LGBTQ Youth Suicide
Prevention & Intervention
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• Define LGBTQ vocabulary
• How signs of depression differ from normal adolescent behavior
• Background on youth suicide and depression in WA
• Special issues for LGBTQ youth
• How to spot triggers and signs of a crisis
• How to intervene
• Where to go for information or help
Safe and Accepted
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• Basic facts about adolescents & self-injury: Risk factors, statistics, and reasons
• Signs to look for
• School protocols: Prevention, handling disclosures, family communication, safety planning
• Non Suicidal Self Injury vs. Suicide
• Recovery and treatment
• Next steps
Self Injury
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Networks for Life: A Counselor’s Role in Youth Suicide Prevention
• About Youth Suicide• Prevention: Knowing the Issue • Youth Suicide in Washington: Data• Prevention Education• Prevention: Creating a supportive, preventive
environment• Intervention: When to step in• Postvention: After a suicide
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House Bill 1336
• A 3 hour Suicide Prevention Training is required of school counselors, psychologists, and social workers.
• School districts are required to adopt a crisis response plan for recognition, initial screening and response to emotional or behavioral distress in students.
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House Bill 1336 – Approved Curricula:
• PESB Approved Suicide Prevention Curricula that meets the requirement for a continuing certificate or the professional certificate (WAC 181-79A-221) for School Counselors, Psychologists, Nurses, and Social Workers.
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House Bill 1336 – Approved Curricula:
• Networks for Life: An Educator’s Role in Youth Suicide Prevention
– Contact: Vicki Wagner, [email protected] or Shannon Rauh, [email protected] (206-297-5922 x4)
• Connect Suicide Prevention/Intervention Training
– Contact: Elaine de Mello, LCSW, [email protected] (603-225-5359)
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• Response
– Contact: Debrah Tressel, [email protected] (509-235-8823)
• SafeTALK (LivingWorks)
– Contact: Forefront: Innovations in Suicide, [email protected] (206-543-1016)
• QPR for School Health Professionals
– Contact: Paul Quinnett, [email protected] (509-235-8823)
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Note: Each ESD region will be hosting a training. Check out the ESD’s websites for the latest schedule. Most will be scheduled in the fall.
• ESD 114 – August 5 https://oesd.gosignmeup.com/public/course/browse?courseid=6614
• Kristin Schutte [email protected]
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Thank you
Contact: Shannon Rauh, M.Ed.
Director of Training, Youth Suicide Prevention Program