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Suicide Prevention for Educators

How Educators Can Respond to Youth about Whom They Are Concerned

Course Description

Educators work with students with emotional and behavioral struggles daily. It is helpful to provide guidance on how best to respond and interact with youth with whom they are concerned. Remember their responses should be in sync with school district policies.

What You’ll Learn

Participants will be able to describe how to respond to youth that may be at risk for suicide, from the perspective of students, educators, and suicide prevention experts.

Participants will be able to identify the steps that take place after a student is referred to a school-based mental health professional with suicidal thoughts or behaviors.

Participants will be able to summarize the variety of parent/family reactions and responses to learning that their child may be suicidal.

Participants will be able to describe the importance of a reentry meeting, and provide examples of components that may be part of a reentry plan when a student returns to school after a hospitalization.

Learning Assests

Note: Please know that in 3 months, you may receive emails about future trainings or evaluations regarding the prevent suicide NJ portal as an evaluation as we would welcome your feedback about the use of this training in your life/work.

Facilitators

Matthew Wintersteen, Ph.D

Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Human Behavior Director of Research, Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University; Executive Board, Prevent Suicide PA, Philadelphia, PA

Terri A. Erbacher, Ph.D

Clinical Associate Professor, Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine; Author of Suicide in Schools: A Practitioner’s Guide to Multi-Level Prevention, Assessment, Intervention, and Postvention