Suicide Awareness & Prevention

The school district cares about preventing suicide and is committed to helping our employees increase their awareness of risk factors displayed by students and colleagues. We would like to take this opportunity to share information about the training we designed for suicide awareness and prevention.
Training for employees occurs annually and was developed by Unified School District 232's mental health experts and includes the following:

• • Facilitator Introduction to the topic of Suicide Awareness & Prevention

  • Training Video

  • Facilitated Discussion

The training video is available for parents and guardians to view. It is our hope that you are able to watch the video to not only see the information presented to our employees, but so that you, as parents and guardians, know more about the risk factors, protective factors, and the importance of asking the difficult but important question, "Are you thinking of suicide?"

Our district also uses Signs of Suicide (SOS) to help teach suicide prevention to students.

Learn more >https://sossignsofsuicide.org/parent

If you have any questions or are concerned about your child, please reach out to the counselors, social workers, teachers, coaches, administrators… with whomever you feel comfortable. We are in this together.