Youth Screening

Youth Screening Programs & Classroom Curriculums
This section provides you with screening tool fact sheets created by the Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC). The fact sheets are a useful tool to compare and contrast the programs for appropriateness and desirability for your community. For further assistance in program decision-making, refer to the Decision Matrix form in Section 4, Gatekeeper Training, of this toolkit. All the screening tools listed in this section are evidence-based programs. This section also lists a sample of classroom curriculum options for your review.

About Evidence-Based Suicide Prevention Programs fact sheet of definitions

Best Practices for School-Based Youth Suicide Prevention: A Guide to Universal, Selective and Indicated Prevention Initiatives, Leona L. Eggert, Wallace V. Egert and Brooke P. Randell.

In 2001, the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI) hired a national expert in youth suicide prevention, Dr. Leona Eggert of the University of Washington to do an exhaustive literature review of youth suicide prevention. The publication is available by request at the Department of Public Instruction. Contact John Humphries, School Psychologist, at Wisconsin DPI, john.humphries@dpi.state.wi.us; (608) 266-7189 or (800) 441-4563

Screening Tools

Effective Youth Suicide Prevention Screening Tool and Curriculum

SPRC Fact Sheet: C-Care/Cast

Promising Youth Suicide Prevention Screening Tools

SPRC Fact Sheet: Columbia University TeenScreen Program

SPRC Fact Sheet: SOS: Signs of Suicide Screening Tool and Curriculum

Classroom Curriculum

Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction Unit of Instruction on Suicide Prevention - unrated programs.

Lifelines

A school-based suicide prevention curriculum with a promising rating. Also provides model policies and procedures and a one-day workshop to train teachers to provide the curriculum.

Reconnecting Youth

A school-based selective/indicated prevention program that targets at risk youth, grades 9-12. It is a semester long curriculum that teaches resiliency skills with respect to risk factors and to moderate early signs of substance abuse, and depression/aggression. This program is rated promising.

Other Resources

The Youth Suicide Prevention School-Based Guide (for schools only), prepared by Katherine Lazear, Stephen Roggenbaum and Karen Blase, and developed by the Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute of South Florida

The briefs that may be referenced for this section is Brief 3a - Risk Factors: Risk and Protective Factors, and Warning Signs and Brief 3b - Risk Factors: How Can a School Identify a Student At Risk for Suicide? The guide can be accessed here.

Maximizing the Return of Parent Consent Forms.

Provided recommendations on how to effectively gain active parental consents for mental health services.