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International Summer Institute
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Sources of Strength: Preventing Suicide among High School Students through Peer Leadership and Adult Mentoring

  • International Summer Institute


    Monday, July 23, 2012 - 9:00am   Face-to-face
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    The Dougy Center, National Center for Grieving Children presents a week long program development training: how to start peer grief support groups for children, teens and their families; understand children's grief, dealing with ways to support children after suicide, illness, accident, and violent deaths. Learn the essentials of effectivly using volunteers, fund raising, and marketing.

    Where: The Dougy Cneter
    Contact: Joan Schweizer Hoff   joan@dougy.org   (503) 775-5683
    Event URL: http://www.dougy.org

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    The Dougy Center, National Center for Grieving Children presents a week long program development training: how to start peer grief support groups for children, teens and their families; understand children's grief, dealing with...

  • Sources of Strength: Preventing Suicide among High School Students through Peer Leadership and Adult Mentoring


    Thursday, July 26, 2012 - 3:00pm
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    Sources of Strength is a program that trains diverse high school students to serve as peer leaders and connects them with adult advisors at school and in the community. With support from the advisors, the peer leaders conduct well-defined messaging activities intended to change peer group norms influencing coping practices and problem behaviors (e.g., self-harm, drug use, unhealthy sexual practices). An evaluation of the program in 18 high schools found that the curriculum led to changes in peer leaders’ coping practices and connectedness with adults and to changes in norms of students in the school population.  The norms most strongly enhanced were the acceptability of seeking help from adults and students’ perceptions that adults in their school could provide help to suicidal students.  This webinar will highlight the critical aspects of the Sources of Strength program, which could be replicated in other settings.  It will also describe an effective approach to program evaluation.  Specific attention will be given to enhancing protective factors associated with suicide at the school population level.


    Event URL: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/485989392

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    Sources of Strength is a program that trains diverse high school students to serve as peer leaders and connects them with adult advisors at school and in the community. With support from the advisors, the peer leaders conduct...