School Professional Development
Creating Suicide Safety in Schools (CS3)
This workshop is designed to assist school planning teams, consisting of school administrators, school-based mental health and health professionals, school safety staff, and school counselors, evaluate readiness and make improvements to prevention and response plans.
CS3 provides the planning team exposure to best practices in suicide prevention and facilitates discussion around the development of building- and district-wide policies and procedures. The planning team will participate in small and large group discussions, complete a school needs assessment, and will receive valuable feedback through a customized action plan to guide implementation.
CS3 helps the planning team learn about the best ways to prevent suicide. It also encourages discussion about creating policies and procedures for the whole building and district. The planning team will participate in small and large groups, complete a school needs assessment, and receive feedback through a customized action plan.
Suicide Safety For Teachers & School Staff (SST)
This 60- to 90-minute training is designed to meet the basic needs of all school administration, faculty, and staff. It focuses on identifying warning signs, explaining how referrals work at school, and ensuring a smooth transition of care for students.
Helping Students At Risk For Suicide (HSAR)
This full-day workshop was developed through a collaboration of the NYSASP, SPCNY and Alberti Center for Bullying Abuse Prevention. This workshop focuses on assessing, intervening, safety planning, and following up for at-risk students. It also assists school leaders in creating standard policies and procedures for suicide intervention.
This workshop is suitable for school-based health, mental health, pupil services, school safety professionals, administrators, special education, and pupil services administrators.
Building the Response to Traumatic Death & Suicide: School Crisis Team Training Curriculum (CTC)
This Crisis Team Curriculum is an 8-module curriculum to help schools form and guide crisis teams to respond effectively after a sudden, traumatic, or suicide death. The curriculum aims to assist the crisis team in improving the learning environment during and after a death or suicide, avoid complicated grief, trauma, and stress, and reduce the risk of suicide among vulnerable youth.