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TUSD recognizes that suicide is the leading cause of death among youth and that we have a responsibility to take action to prevent those deaths.

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Purpose: to protect the health and well-being of all students by having procedures in place to prevent, assess the risk of, intervene in, and respond to suicide

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Who will train or facilitate a PD for this at each school site?

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Purpose of document is to protect the health and wellbeing of our students.

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Suicide is a prevalent and serious risk to youth, and TUSD has an ethical responsibility to proactively prevent death by suicide.

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Please work with your admin team to share basic info and first responder form with staff

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To ensure child safety and protocols are followed properly.

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Create safety plan

Have proper meeting with team before student returns

Share recommendations

Discuss resources

Address questions or concerns

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What if we cannot acquire parent permission for the CRC to intervene?

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What if we cannot acquire parent permission for the CRC to intervene?

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Like mandatory reporting, ALL school personnel are first responders!

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How can we meaningfully distribute this information to other school staff at our site?

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How can we meaningfully distribute this information to other school staff at our site?

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PD, fillable PDF and hard copies of first responder

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How many school personnel do we include in this at the time it is happening?

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first responder, counselor/ SW, admin, ExEd when appropriate

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When is it necessary to refer to DCS?

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This document is apply procedure, protocols and guidelines to the entire school, community including educators and school and district staff students, parents and guardians and volunteer volunteers.

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How do we get the “My Safety Plan” to families before they return?

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Purpose is to protect health and well being of all students by having procedures in place to prevent, assess the risk of, intervene in, and respond to suicide.

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Never leave a student alone escort them at all times. 

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Never leave a student alone escort them at all times. 

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Take all threats seriously!

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What if you cannot get in contact with any guardian at the moment? 

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What if you cannot get in contact with any guardian at the moment? 

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Check in with the student and keep their best interest in mind at all times

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Make sure student is always accompanied by someone and never left alone

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Make sure student is always accompanied by someone and never left alone

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If these checklists and plans are required by TUSD, I think the forms should have TUSD logo on them, with updated versions available online.

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Review the safety plan with student, family, teacher, and any other adults that interact with student

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Review the safety plan with student, family, teacher, and any other adults that interact with student

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Do we require families to provide proof that their student was evaluated after suicide threat?

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Support students with suicidal ideation and connect them with resources.

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to “My SCHOOL Safety Plan”?

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How do we approach a situation in which a student is classified as homeless?

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Can we call particular crisis response agencies directly?

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Can we call particular crisis response agencies directly?

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What/where/how do we document sensitive information like this?

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What/where/how do we document sensitive information like this?

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If a student has suicidal thoughts but not suicidal ideation, what are next steps in that case?

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Students today have to deal with social media, songs that romanticize or encourage suicide and other factors that we did not have to address growing up

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Students today must cope with influences we did not have, such as songs that promise a better place for those who commit suicide.

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Must call 911 or is it “and/or”?

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I think we need to have clarification on if answers to SI Checklist are 'Yes.' or 'No.' If 'Yes,' proceed to Section 2. If 'No,' contact parent and document in Synergy.

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I think we need to have clarification on if answers to SI Checklist are 'Yes.' or 'No.' If 'Yes,' proceed to Section 2. If 'No,' contact parent and document in Synergy.

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Great idea for our next revision

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What if school is understaffed, and counselor and social workers are not available what should happen

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Suicide is a leading, preventable cause of death for youth in the US. The purpose of the document is to guide school staff to provide appropriate prevention, intervention, and postvention components.

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There is a difference between suicidal ideation and suicidal thoughts 

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There is a difference between suicidal ideation and suicidal thoughts 

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kids of all ages can experience suicidal ideation

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Our nurses put in a “yellow folder safety plan” in synergy. Can we upload in a confidential way so counselors have access?

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How long is the plan in place? One school year? Or until the student graduates?

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What do we do if a parent does not want a support plan for their student?

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Does the de-entry plan follow them into the next school year?

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Great question. The detailed specific plan is designed to be short term and tapered down as appropriate. If there is a sudden school change then there needs to be a transition with the new school involved

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If there is no parent/guardian participation, how do we proceed?

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If there is no parent/guardian participation, how do we proceed?

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Where does all of this go/get documented?

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Where does all of this go/get documented?

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health services but also its best to make a non-detailed not in MTSS workflow so others can provide support if needed.

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Is there a document that the parents would sign to say you have informed them of the event and consequences?

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Is there a document that the parents would sign to say you have informed them of the event and consequences?

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Or is this a form we can create?

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What’s the procedure if a student has multiple SI’s over the course of the school year(s)?

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We do not assess. But there is a certain amount of assessing or else every elementary student that says I want to...would need one. They just don't know how else to describe they are frustrated.

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If a student is admitted to the CRC for 24/7 do you need to complete a re-entry or is only if they are hospitalized at Palo Verde Hospital or Sonora Hospital?