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Preventing Suicide: Guidelines for Administrators and Crisis Teams

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The 988 Lifeline is a national network of local crisis centers that provides free and confidential emotional support to people in suicidal crisis or emotional distress 24 hours a day, 7 days a week in the United States. We're committed to improving crisis services and advancing suicide prevention by empowering individuals, advancing professional best practices, and building awareness.

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These lessons have been adapted from the books Helping the Grieving Student: A Guide for Teachers and When Death Impacts Your School: A Guide for School Administrators. To order copies of these books, visit our online bookstore or contact The Dougy Center, 503-775-5683.

Dealing With Grieving Students in Your Class

The following steps help support the grieving students as well as prepare your class for making the grieving student feel comfortable and supported:

1. Talk with the grieving student before they return.
Ask what they want the class to know about the death, funeral arrangements, etc. If possible, call the family prior to the student's return to school so that you can let the student know you are thinking of them and want to help make their return to school as supportive as possible.

2. Talk to your class about how grief affects people and encourage them to share how they feel.
One way to do this is to discuss what other types of losses or deaths the students in your class have experienced, and what type of support they found helpful and unhelpful.

3. Discuss how difficult it may be for their classmate to return to school, and how they can help.
You can ask your class for ideas about how they would like others to treat them if they were returning to school after a death, pointing out differences in preferences. Some students might like to be left alone while others want the circumstances discussed freely. Most grieving students say that they want everyone to treat them the same way they treated them before and don't want people to be "extra nice." While students usually say they don't want to be in the spotlight, they also don't want people acting like nothing happened.

4. Provide a way for your class to reach out to the grieving classmate and their family.
One of the ways that students can reach out is by sending cards or pictures to their classmate and family, letting them know the class is thinking of them. If students in your class knew the person who died, they could share memories of that person.

5. Provide flexibility and support to the grieving student when they return to class.
Recognize that your student will have difficulty concentrating and focusing on school work. Make a plan for them to be able to leave the classroom if they need additional support throughout the school day. This could include talking with a counselor, favorite teacher, or having time to check in with their family.

Dos and Don'ts with Grieving Students

DO listen. Grieving students need a safe, trusted adult who will listen to them

DO follow routines. Routines provide a sense of safety for grieving students.

DO set limits. Just because students are grieving, doesn't mean that the rules do not apply. When grieving, students may experience lapses in concentration or exhibit risk taking behavior. Setting clear limits provides a more secure and safe environment for everyone under these circumstances.

DO NOT suggest that the student has grieved long enough.

DO NOT indicate that the student should get over it and move on.

DO NOT act as if nothing has happened.

DO NOT say things like:
- "It could be worse. You still have one brother."
- "I know how you feel."
- "You'll be stronger because of this."

DO NOT expect the student to complete all assignments on a timely basis.

As a teacher, you have the opportunity to affect students' lives in a significant way. Your actions can have a lasting impact. When a death influences the lives of your students, you and your school, can have be a positive force by intentionally creating a supportive environment.

For School Administrators:

The School Day After a school community has received news of a death, what happens on that day and the next day? How are schedules affected? Here's a general outline and some things to be aware of in the hours and early days after a death.

1. The staff briefing meeting
After the Crisis Response team has drafted their action plan, a briefing meeting with the staff should occur. It is important to have that meeting before the students return to school. All staff who are impacted by the crisis should be included in this meeting. Come to the meeting prepared to accomplish the following:

Share a written statement and presentation of the circumstances of the death.

Prepare teachers to share the information in their home room or first period. (It is often helpful for a team of two people to present the information.)

Present information about how students grieve and what behaviors might be expected. Review the plan for the school day/week.

Stress the need for as routine a day as possible, allowing flexibility: times to talk about the death and its impact when students need such a discussion.

Address questions and concerns about high risk students with teachers/staff.

Discuss the need for substitute teachers for those teachers who need time to process their own grief reaction.

Identify location and use of a safe room for students who need additional support throughout the day.

Allow time for teachers to talk about their own feelings related to the death/incident.

If applicable, inform teachers of the designated media spokesperson. Advise teachers not to speak with the media or allow them on the school grounds.

2. Student Issues
As an administrator, you will have many opportunities to positively impact your students after a death occurs. Along with the Crisis Response Team, you will set out guidelines for teachers to facilitate classroom discussion, and inform students of resources available to them. You will also have opportunities to connect with students during the days and weeks following the death. It may be speaking in an assembly, in your office or in passing in the hall. One of the best things you can do is be a model for grieving, by acknowledging your own feelings around the loss. This helps create a safe an open atmosphere for grief. You can also allow students to play a role in memorializing the person who died. Planning a memorial service or remembrance can be a good activity for those who want to participate. Your school should have a policy around memorial services or other commemorations so that you are prepared in advance. The policy should include the answers to these questions:

Will our school provide the opportunity for our community to acknowledge the death of a student or staff member through some kind of memorialization? (We recommend that you do provide this opportunity, both to acknowledge the life of the person who died and also to illustrate the school's educational mission in action.)

What kind of memorialization activities will we sponsor or support?

Under what circumstances will we consider memorialization activities? The death of a staff member or student? What if the death is from suicide, or a violent death? We believe very strongly that whatever policy or precedent the school sets should apply to all deaths. For example, if you decide that if a student dies, there will be an opportunity to acknowledge that student's death publicly and collectively as a school community, you should do the same thing for a student who dies of suicide as you would for a basketball player who dies on the court, or a student who is killed in a car accident. It is not accurate that having a memorial for a student who dies of suicide will encourage other students to take their lives. Of course, memorial services should not glamorize or romanticize the act of suicide, but there are ways to memorialize without doing so. Not having the same activity you would provide in a different kind of death gives the message that the student's life was not valued, or that we should sweep suicide deaths under the rug. This is an excellent opportunity to educate your students, staff and school community about preventing suicide.

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Preventing suicide: a resource for media professionals, update 2023

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There is evidence that media reports about suicide can enhance or weaken suicide prevention efforts. Widely disseminated stories of death by suicide are often followed by more suicides in the population, while stories of overcoming a suicidal crisis can lead to fewer suicides. Media professionals are encouraged to focus on presenting stories of people who overcome difficulties following a suicidal crisis while also following the Dos and Don’ts in this resource when reporting on suicide.
Previous versions have been updated in this resource, in particular in the areas of proactive reporting on stories of survival and suicide prevention, positive impacts of reporting on suicide prevention, hope and recovery, and specific considerations for online, digital and social media.
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SAVE: Suicide Prevention, Information, and Awareness

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Students learn best when they are in environments in which they feel safe, supported, challenged, and accepted. Research shows that when schools and districts focus on improving school climate, students are more likely to engage in the curriculum, develop positive relationships, and demonstrate positive behaviors.

To help schools and districts improve school climate, the National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments has developed the School Climate Improvement Resource Package (Resource Package). The Resource Package includes a variety of resources to meet a range of needs among stakeholders interested in improving school climate.*

School Climate Data Resources. These resources help interpret school climate data. Specifically:

A Data Analysis Worksheet that provides key questions ED School Climate Surveys (EDSCLS) users can utilize to guide analysis of their data;

A Data Interpretation Guide that provides technical descriptions of and recommendations for using and interpreting various school climate survey data; and

Data Interpretation Topical Discussion Guides to assist in using and interpreting data results for specific school climate topic areas, overall and by multi-tiered system of supports, as applicable.

A School Climate Survey Item Bank that offers items survey administrators can add to their school climate survey in response to COVID-19.

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* These documents provide strategies applicable to public schools and districts, including charter authorizers, charter management organizations, education management organizations, individual charter schools, and charter local educational agencies.

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Suicide is a public health issue. Media and online coverage of suicide should be informed by using best practices. Some suicide deaths may be newsworthy. However, the way media cover suicide can influence behavior negatively by contributing to contagion or positively by encouraging help-seeking.

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National Center for School Crisis and Bereavement

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Notification Templates | National Center for School Crisis and Bereavement

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In order to reduce youth suicide, we must craft effective policies that support the mental health and wellness of all students. Effective suicide prevention policies are essential to meeting the critical role and responsibility that schools have in identifying and providing interventions for at risk students.

NASP partnered with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, the American School Counselor Association, and the Trevor Project to update the Model School Policy, a comprehensive guidebook for school administrators and policymakers. The guidebook contains best practices in suicide prevention, intervention and postvention policies for K-12 schools. It can be used for the development of suicide prevention plans at the district level and implementation at the school level, and includes best practices relating to parental notification and engagement, re-entry procedure after an attempt, in-school suicide attempts, out-of-school suicide attempts, suicide postvention, and sample language for a student handbook.

Read the full Model School Suicide Prevention Policy press release here.

Model School District Suicide Prevention Policy Webinar

Model School District Suicide Prevention Policy Webinar, brought to you by ASCA, NASP, AFSP & The Trevor Projec from AFSP on Vimeo.

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