Program Manual
This manual serves as a curriculum guide for the overall educational program. Topics addressed include: How Big a Problem is Youth Suicide?; How Can Teachers Help Prevent Youth Suicide?; What Puts Teens at Risk for Suicide?; What Treatments are Available?; How Can Teachers Identify At-Risk Students?; and How Else Can Schools Decrease Risk? The manual also lists Additional Resources for follow-up study, including websites with suicide prevention information, samples of protocols and guidelines for schools, and books for professionals, teens and young adults, and parents.

PowerPoint Presentation
These PowerPoint slides are designed to assist the trainer or facilitator in presenting the program in a group setting. The slides will be periodically updated to include the latest suicide statistics and research information.

Participant Feedback Form
Comments and suggestions by participants will help AFSP in continuing its efforts to provide teachers and other school personnel with relevant, useful and timely information about their important roles in suicide prevention.

All instructional materials can also be downloaded directly from the DVD, More Than Sad: Preventing Teen Suicide.
     
 
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention   New York State Office of Mental Health         If you are in crisis, call 1-800-273-TALK
 
     
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Funding for this project was made possible by grants from NYSOMH and the Leon Lowenstein Foundation, as well as donations from the Rodd D. Brickell Foundation, the Scott R. Jackowitz Memorial Fund, the Keith Milano Memorial Fund and the Foundation for Fairer Capitalism. Additional funding was obtained from the Out of the Darkness walks and an AFSP-Long Island event.