When a traumatic event happens in your school or community, you can be a Lifeline.
 
Lifelines: A Comprehensive Suicide Awareness and Responsiveness Program for Teens

According to the American Association of Suicidology, suicide ranked as the third leading cause of death for young people (ages 15-19 and 15-24.) While suicides accounted for 1.4% of all deaths in the U.S. annually, they comprised 12.2% of all deaths among 15-24-year-olds.

In order to address this important issue, Hazelden offers Lifelines: A Comprehensive Suicide Awareness and Responsivenss Program for Teens. This is a whole-school program made up of three unique components: Lifelines: Prevention, Lifelines: Intervention, and Lifelines: Postvention. This trilogy of programs is the only existing model of its kind available for teens.

The complete Lifelines Trilogy is based on over 20 years of suicide-in-youth research that indicates an informed community can help to prevent vulnerable teens from ending their lives. 

Three Unique Components. One Important Program. 

Lifelines: A Suicide Prevention Program 

This first part of the Lifelines Trilogy educates students on the facts about suicide and students' role in suicide prevention. It provides information on where to find suicide prevention resources in the school and community. Training materials are included for faculty and staff that provide accurate and practical information on identifying and referring students who might be at risk for suicide. Lifelines: A Suicide Prevention Program also includes a presentation for parents that answers questions about youth suicide and prevention, and it involves them in the school’s suicide prevention activities.

Designed for implementation in middle schools and high schools, it targets the whole school community by providing suicide awareness resources for administrators, faculty and staff, parents, and students. It fits easily into health class programming and lesson plans.

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Is Your School Ready to Prevent Suicide

Presented in conjunction with the Society for the Prevention of Teen Suicide, this webinar discusses the issue of teen suicide and its prevalence, describes the essential elements in an effective suicide prevention program, offers the next steps for developing a suicide prevention program for a school and community, and reviews the elements of Lifelines: A Suicide Prevention Program.  

Lifelines: A Suicide Prevention Program

Manual, CD-ROM, and 2 DVDs

Price: $225.00 Each

Item #2759

Lifelines Intervention: Helping Studients at Risk for Suicide

The second installment in the Lifelines Trilogy provides information on how to be prepared to address and respond to threats or signs of suicide and intervene - before it's too late.

Lifelines Intervention also provides clear guidance on how best to involve parents and guardians as partners and explains how to gather collateral information about a student's risk for suicide and address specific topics. Other topics addressed include the challenges presented by bullied students, members of sexual minorities, and students in gifted or special education classes.

Lifelines Intervention: Helping Students at Risk for Suicide

Manual, CD-ROM, and DVD

Price: $149.00 Each

Item #3843

Lifelines Postvention: Responding to Suicide and Other Traumatic Death

The third installment of the Lifelines Trilogy is Lifelines Postvention: Responding to Suicide and Other Traumatic Death. This comprehensive, whole-school best-practices manual is designed for middle and high school communities. This unique program educates everyone in the school community on how to successfully address and respond to not only suicide, but any type of traumatic death that profoundly affects the school population.

With in-depth references and detailed plans, this resource outlines a response strategy that reflects the challenges schools face in dealing with a death within the school community. Also included are references and support materials that allow school leaders to recognize and reduce the risk of suicide contagion (or "copycat") behavior within the school.

Lifelines Postvention: Responding to Suicide and Other Traumatic Death

Manual and CD-ROM

Price: $99.00 Each

Item #2873

Although the research and outcomes are based on school-wide implementation, any part of the Lifelines Trilogy can be a successful component to community-based programs, such as Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, and Boys and Girls Clubs of America.