Suicide prevention for students and teachers

You can vote for suicide prevention help and the society can win 1 million dollars just click on this link http://apps.facebook.com/chasecommunitygiving and login with facebook, it is easy and could save a life! The Issue Each year, 1,100 college students die by suicide, more than die from any other cause except accidents. Almost all suffered from depression or another serious but treatable mental disorder. But an estimated 85 percent hadn’t sought any type of treatment because they were mistrustful of involving a stranger in their problems, feared the judgment of friends, didn’t know where to go or were just too overwhelmed to seek help. To stop this tragic loss of young lives, AFSP developed the Interactive Screening Program, a web-based system that connects at-risk students to a campus counselor and facilitates anonymous online exchanges to resolve barriers to treatment. ISP has been recognized as a Best Practice for Suicide Prevention based on published evidence of its effectiveness in encouraging at-risk students into treatment. Our Big Idea is to ensure that college students get the help they need by making this secure, anonymous and effective program available to schools in every state. The Plan At a cost of 18,000 dollars to develop a customized ISP website for each school, train campus clinicians and provide implementation assistance, AFSP lacks the resources to expand the program beyond the small number of pilot schools. With the 1 million, we propose to: Enhance the ISP software to include updated graphics and program technology, including applications for mobile devices; Establish the enhanced ISP on 50 new campuses, one in every state. In selecting campuses, preference will be given to large public institutions that commit to helping disseminate the ISP throughout the state; and Work with these campuses to develop and implement activities to create suicide awareness and educate students about suicide risk factors and warning signs, thus creating a campus culture that supports the ISP. This will include distributing AFSP’s film, “The Truth about Suicide: Real Stories of Depression in College” and organizing suicide prevention walks on campus. The Outcome The ultimate outcome of this plan will be to substantially reduce student suicide through early recognition and vigorous treatment of depression and other mental disorders that are responsible for over 90 percent of all suicides. Measurable outcomes include: 1. Implement and document results of ISP in 50 target schools during Year 1; 2. Disseminate ISP to a minimum of 15 new schools in each state during each of Years 2 and 3, using evaluation results from the initial 50 schools to obtain funding from states, foundations and other national and local agencies. When fully implemented over a 3-year period, this plan will result in the establishment of the ISP on 1,550 campuses, representing over one-third of the country’s 4,500 colleges and universities. With this critical mass, we anticipate that within another several years, ISP will become part of most campuses’ suicide prevention strategy, thereby reducing the number of college student lives lost to suicide

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