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NASP. (n.d.) Preventing Youth Suicide -- Tips for Parents and Educators. http://www.nasponline.org/resources/crisis_safety/suicideprevention.aspx

The site is created for parents and educators by the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP). The page itself contains very handy tips for identifying risk factors and detecting warning signs. Specific risk factors include family stress or dysfunction, while warning signs include threats to commit suicide. The page also includes information about how to handle a suicidal young person. The role of the school is described, which is paritcularly relevant. The site indicates that it is very important that educators and parents work together in cases where thoughts and plans of suicide are suspected.

In addition to the helpful information on the page itself, the site also includes links to further NASP resources, along with links to sources beyond NASP. These are offered at the end of the page. To the left of the page, several links are offered to further information about NASP.

Gasparini, K. (n.d.) Lesson Plan: "Suicide." In the Mix. Retrieved from: http://www.pbs.org/inthemix/educators/lessons/depression2/

The page provides a lesson plan for teachers who wish to inform their students about the serious nature of suicide. The target group of studens includes grades 7-12, which is the group most affected by suicide. The lesson includes links to resources in terms of published case studies and videos.

The "materials needed" section includes a series of links to the articles and video to be examined to reach the objectives of the lesson. The procedure is described thoroughly by means of nine steps. At the end of the document, several links are provided to relevant sources.

The lesson plan seems to include a large amount of useful information not only for use in the lesson itself, but also for further investigation or modification of the lesson provided.

Brown University (2013). Suicide Prevention Information and Resources for Educators (SPIRE). Public Health Program. Retrieved from: http://publichealth.brown.edu/spire/

The information on this site is similar to that provided by NASP. In contrast to NASP, however, the information presented here is visually much shorter. This makes it somewhat easier to find relevant information to the specific problem the educator faces. The page itself contains information about SPIRE, along with its partners to help prevent suicide. To the right of the page, a suicide helpline is prominently displayed. The number also appears at the bottom of the page. To the left of the page, links are offered for specific grade levels, along with information about suicide, such as risk factors, screening, and treatment.

Teachers are likely to find the site particularly helpful, since many materials are included for teaching various grade levels about suicide.

Firestone, L. (2009). Teen Suicide Prevention: Teachers and Educators. Psychalive. Retrieved from: http://www.psychalive.org/2010/03/teachers-and-educators/

After a brief description of the role teachers play to prevent suicide among their students, the site offers the national suicide prevention lifeline number, followed by links to articles and documents providing advice about suicide. This is followed by several videos, Websites and books that offer various kinds of advice about suicide.