Lifelines® Postvention: Responding to Suicide and Other Traumatic Death is a best-practices manual for middle and high schools that educates everyone in the school community on how to successfully respond to suicide and other traumatic deaths that profoundly affect the school population. This newly revised edition includes updated language and new topics to reflect today's society, and now also covers grades 5-6 and 11-12.
This curriculum includes a facilitator guide and USB flash drive containing all the handouts needed to implement the program, including resources for school administrators, faculty and staff members, parents and caregivers, and students.
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Lifelines® Postvention: Responding to Suicide and Other Traumatic Death is a best-practices manual that educates everyone in the community on how to successfully respond to suicide and other traumatic deaths that profoundly affect the school population. This newly revised edition includes updated language and new topics to reflect today's best practices and youth culture.
Increased Understanding of Suicide Risk Factors and Help-Seeking Attitudes
An evaluation of Lifelines in Maine found that students in the intervention group:
- Demonstrated a significantly greater increase in knowledge about suicide
- Demonstrated significantly greater improvement in attitudes about suicide and suicide intervention
- Demonstrated significantly greater improvement in attitudes about seeking adult help
- Demonstrated significantly greater improvement in attitudes about keeping a friend's suicide thoughts a secret
Researchers at the University of Kentucky found that after middle school students participated in the Lifelines Prevention program:
- 98.5% understood the seriousness of suicide
- 96.2% understood the risk factors of suicide
A systemic review of universal prevention programs found that Lifelines had a positive impact on students' help-seeking attitudes.
