How To Implement Suicide Prevention Strategies in High Schools

How To Implement Suicide Prevention Strategies in High Schools Preventing Suicide: A Toolkit for High Schools assists in designing and implementing strategies to prevent suicide and promote behavioral health. It includes tools to implement a multifaceted suicide prevention program that responds to students' needs and cultures. The toolkit will help schools: Assess the ability to prevent suicide among students and to respond to suicides that may occur. Understand strategies that can help students who are at risk for suicide. Understand how to respond to the suicide of a student or other member of the school community. Integrate suicide prevention into activities that fulfill other aspects of the school's mission, such as preventing the abuse of alcohol and other drugs. Get Preventing Suicide: A Toolkit for High Schools Publications   |   SAMHSA News   |   Update My Profile   |   Unsubscribe   |   Contact Us Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration 1 Choke Cherry Road  |  Rockville, MD 20857  |  1-877-SAMHSA-7 (1-877-726-4727)  |  http://www.samhsa.gov  |  Privacy SAMHSA is a public health agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Its mission is to reduce the impact of substance abuse and mental illness on America's communities.

Jobhunting and the Absence of Online Privacy

This presentation explains the importance of your online reputation, how to build it and how to protect it. Use the tips in this presentation to take your job hunting to the next level. And please, do pass it on to others that could use the advice.

Jobhunting and the Absence of Online Privacy from Jim Stroud

Questions About Social Media You Haven't Dared to Ask (or You Don't Know Who to Ask)

Questions About Social Media You Haven't Dared to Ask (or You Don't Know Who to Ask) A free webinar on March 27. Join noted speaker and best-selling author Marcia Conner as she provides detailed how-to information about social media and the online world. Social media has become a lightning-fast way to deliver ideas and connect with stakeholders. Are you utilizing these ever-changing tools to effectively communicate your messages? Conner, author of three books, including The New Social Learning: A Guide to Transforming Organizations Through Social Media, advises executives in some of the world’s largest companies to unite collaborative technologies, analytics, and human energy. She is a member of Telefónica’s Disruptive Council, a fellow of the Darden School of Business, writes for Fast Company, and speaks at both public and private events throughout the year.      Title: Questions About Social Media You Haven't Dared to Ask               (or You Don't Know Who to Ask)                     Date: Wednesday, March 27, 2013      Time: 3:30–4:30 p.m. ET Space is limited. Reserve your Webinar seat now at: www1.gotomeeting.com/register/960559961 After registering you will receive a confirmation e-mail containing information about joining the Webinar. System Requirements: PC-based attendees Required: Windows® 7, Vista, XP or 2003 Server Macintosh®-based attendees Required: Mac OS® X 10.5 or newer

Clean Up Your Digital Footprint

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Enroll Your School and Take a Stand Against Bullying.

Enroll your school to participate in Stand 4 Change Day 2013. Fill out the fields below and we will email you everything you need to be part of this epic day.

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First government-supported “sexting” guidance published - 19 March 2013

“Sexting” ­ the worrying practice of sending explicit pictures or video footage via mobile phones and the internet is all too common among some teenagers. Academic research and staffroom anecdote both point to girls facing pressure to provide sexually explicit images of themselves for others to share online.

Teachers are no doubt horrified by the trend, and concerned about the children who find themselves part of these images. But how do you start to address such a sensitive issue in the right way? Help may be at hand in the form of first government-backed guidance for school staff.

It was developed by former police detective Sharon Girling, working with Medway Council, the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre, the Lucy Faithfull Foundation child protection charity, and sponsored by online software company Securus.

The document promises practical support, including how to respond, how to help children involved, how to prevent further incidents and advice on whether teachers can search phones and computers. Its publication was welcomed by Russell Hobby, general secretary of the NAHT, who said it would “help schools deal with this contemporary threat appropriately”.

“Sexting” in schools: advice and support around self-generated images: What to do and how to handle it can be downloaded here.

Kerra Maddern

Source: http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=6325267&s_cid=tesmagazinehome

Webinar To Examine the Use of Restorative Justice Practices in School Discipline

Webinar To Examine the Use of Restorative Justice Practices in School Discipline On March 20, 2013, at 4 p.m. ET, the U.S. Departments of Justice, Education, and Health and Human Services will present “Stemming the School-to-Prison Pipeline: Applying Restorative Justice Principles to School Discipline Practices.” This one-and-a-half hour Webinar, fourth in a series from the Supportive School Discipline Initiative, will address how school districts and schools can apply restorative justice principles (conflict resolution, fostering understanding and empathy, and building stronger relationships in schools and communities) to school discipline practices to stem the school-to-prison pipeline. Resources: Registration information is available online. Get more information on the Supportive School Discipline Webinar series.

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