Understanding the TUSD Protocol for Suicidal Ideation by Carrier, Rebecca

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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

QR for doc would be great

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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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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

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!

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

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Includes prevention, intervention, and postvention components

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

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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.

Never leave a student alone escort them at all times.

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Take all threats seriously!

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

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.

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?

Purpose:

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Support students with suicidal ideation and connect them with resources.

Can we retitle page 10

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to “My SCHOOL Safety Plan”?

Homeless

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

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

deborahgrunloh — 2024-08-16 16:55:19 UTC

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

Safety plan that is specific

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deborahgrunloh — 2024-08-16 16:55:59 UTC

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

Is it

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Must call 911 or is it “and/or”?

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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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.

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?

Include the student in the process

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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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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?

Multiple

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

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PD, fillable PDF and hard copies of first responder

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

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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?

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Great idea for our next revision

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