Lifelines Intervention Training for NYC DOE Staff

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Lifelines Intervention Training for NYC DOE Staff

By Office of School Health-NYC DOE-DOHMH, Mental Health Unit

Date and time

Wednesday, August 31, 2016 · 8:30am - 3:30pm EDT

Location

DOE Queens Plaza North

28-11 Queens Plaza North Room 510 Queens, NY 11101

Description

PLEASE NOTE: This event is for New York City Department of Education Schools and Employees or DOE school partners only. This event is NOT open to the general public.


Training Objectives:

  • Provide a context for contemporary societal values and attitudes about suicide by reviewing suicide from a historical perspective.
  • Highlight the role of personal values and experiences in the assessment/intervention process.
  • Present epidemiological information about suicide risk to facilitate early identification of at-risk students.
  • Review a protocol for an assessment interview.
  • Outline strategies for engaging students and parents in the assessment/referral process.
  • Call attention to special categories of students who may be at elevated suicide risk.


Goal: Intervention is based on a three-tiered approach. The first addresses early identification and assessment of at-risk students; the second makes referral to community resources for additional services; and the final tier enhances the protective factors that increase resilience and provide buffers from stress.Lifelines firmly believes that schools are not mental health centers; they simply take the first step in helping direct students to the care they need at community mental health resources.

Targeting school resource staff, the Intervention manual reviews a protocol for an assessment interview, outlines and demonstrates specific strategies for engaging students and parents in the assessment process, and calls attention to special categories of students who might be at elevated suicide risk. It also provides direction for the establishment of programs that enhance student resilience.

Who should attend: School staff who may address an at-risk student and his/her parents: counselors, social workers, resource officers, nurses, administrators and other appropriate staff who have a key role in intervening with a potentially at-risk for suicide. We encourage schools to send a team of participants, as this work

This training is provided to the New York City Department of Education through a collaboration of the New York State Office of Mental Health, the Suicide Prevention Center of NY, NYCDOE/DOHMH-Office of School Health and the Society for the Prevention of Teen Suicide, with funding from the Kenworthy Swift Foundation.




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