Resources

Resources

Effective suicide prevention calls for an approach that combines several strategies.  Below you’ll find our list of resources that may be helpful for you and those you care about.

For Families

  • CDC: Essentials for Parenting Teens – Tips to support the development of positive parent-teen relationships. 
  • Cornell University: Self-Injury & Recovery Resources – Dedicated to translating the growing body of knowledge about self-injury into resources and tools useful for those seeking to better understand, treat, and prevent it. 
  • Erika’s Lighthouse – Focused on helping families promote good mental health, address mental distress, and support children’s mental illness. 
  • FAST Skills – Designed to provide brief, evidence-based behavioral therapy for youth and families with common mental health concerns.  
  • Forefront Suicide Prevention – Focused on helping people take action to prevent suicide in their communities.  
  • NAMI WA – Find resources related to crisis support, education, and navigating a mental health crisis. 
  • Native and Strong Lifeline – A suicide-prevention, crisis and help line for and by Indigenous people. 
  • The Jed Foundation – Focused on protecting emotional health and preventing suicide for our nation’s teens and young adults.  
  • Trevor Project – Provides crisis and peer support to LGBTQ+ youth. 
  • Washington State Department of Health – Find behavioral health agencies in WA state. 
  • Youth Mental Health First Aid – Adult participants will gain skills on how to help youth in crisis or who may be experiencing a mental health challenge.  
    • Seattle Children’s – Two-part virtual class for adults who regularly interact with youth age 12-18.  
    • Valley Cities – Interactive course that teaches participants how to identify, understand, and respond to signs of a mental health or substance use challenge or crisis. 

For School Staff

  • Act for Youth: Positive Youth Development 101 PDF – Curriculum to provide professional development to new youth workers, supervisors and administrators, funders, and community volunteers.  
  • CASEL Program Guide – Designed to help educators and school administrators select an evidence-based SEL program that best meets the needs of their community.  
  • Classroom Wise – Three-part training package that assists K-12 educators and school staff in supporting the mental health of students in the classroom. 
  • Cornell University: Self-Injury & Recovery Resources – Dedicated to translating the growing body of knowledge about self-injury into resources and tools useful for those seeking to better understand, treat, and prevent it.
  • Crisis Connections ($) – Health curricula that is designed to be taught by classroom teachers or counselors, and appropriate for students at the elementary, middle, and high school levels. 
  • DBT in Schools ($) – Curriculums and trainings to teach emotional regulation, resilience, and relationship building. 
  • Erika’s Lighthouse – Provides depression education and suicide prevention curriculum. 
  • FAST Skills – Designed to provide brief, evidence-based behavioral therapy for youth and families with common mental health concerns.
  • Forefront Suicide Prevention – Focused on helping people take action to prevent suicide in their communities.
  • Hazelden Lifelines Trilogy ($) – Unique collection of three programs that address the important topic of youth suicide, from prevention to intervention to response. 
  • HEARD Alliance – K-12 Mental Health Promotion & Suicide Prevention Toolkit offers schools a structured approach to promoting wellbeing, responding effectively to crises, and supporting communities in the aftermath of loss. 
  • Mental Health Instruction – Comprehensive library that includes mental health resources (i.e., SEL, mental health literacy, substance use, suicide prevention, social media and mental health). 
  • NAMI WA – Find resources related to crisis support, education, and navigating a mental health crisis.
  • National Center for School Crisis and Bereavement – Dedicated to helping schools support their students through crisis and loss. 
  • Native and Strong Lifeline – A suicide-prevention, crisis and help line for and by Indigenous people.
  • Seize the Awkward – Resources for youth to start a conversation about mental health and support a friend. 
  • SHAPE: School Mental Health Policy Map – Displays and links to key state-level policies and information related to school mental health. 
  • SOS Signs of Suicide ($) – Evidence-based youth suicide prevention program. 
  • Sources of Strength ($) – Best practice, strength-based, upstream suicide prevention and mental health promotion program. 
  • Suicide Prevention Resource Center – Builds capacity and infrastructure for effective suicide prevention through consultation, training, and resources. 
  • Trevor Project – Provides crisis and peer support to LGBTQ+ youth.
  • Washington State Department of Health – List of approved suicide prevention trainings for health professionals.
  • Youth Mental Health First Aid – Adult participants will gain skills on how to help youth in crisis or who may be experiencing a mental health challenge.  
    • Seattle Children’s – Two-part virtual class for adults who regularly interact with youth age 12-18.  
    • Valley Cities – Interactive course that teaches participants how to identify, understand, and respond to signs of a mental health or substance use challenge or crisis.