Learning about SPTS and its Lifelines Trilogy training programs.pptx

Seeking the help of a trusted adult, orimary care provider, walk-in clinics, emergency department of a hospital, urgent care, or a therapist can also help.

1. SPTS stands for the Society for the Prevention of Teen Suicide. It has a website adults and teens can visit for help and resources concerning preventing and also dealing with teen suicides. It also offers different training opportunities and resources in different settings. The mental health toolkit you can find in a number of hospitals and then there are also community and school programs and workshops, and conferences for parents and professionals. Here we look at The Lifelines Trilogy prevention training.   SPTS - The Lifelines Trilogy The three programs work through the things schools can do to help prevent suicide, how to intervene and how to help teens after there has been a suicide in the school community. Every school is impacted by suicide. No school is immune no matter who attends, their grades, their ages. But with some training and knowledge schools can learn how to identify who are more at risk in their schools, help work out their needs and how to meet them and create an environment for the students that is safe to learn in.

2. Lifelines Prevention - Is referred to by the SPTS as setting ‘the foundation for a school’s competence in youth prevention’. It helps with creating protocols to follow when certain situations arise and helps staff write policies to follow so that staff can with more confidence. It includes a video presentation for the parents of children at the school, four classes suited for students in middle or high school and a presentation for school staff.   Lifelines Intervention - This is the guide that will help with how to identify students at risk and how to react to them. It is designed for resource and support staff within schools. It has information about student groups who are more likely to be higher risk and bullied, training videos for dealing with students and parents who are more challenging when a student needs intervention and tools on how to talk to a student with a more conversational approach.

3. Lifelines Posttension - At first this was a resource to help schools with how to respond when there has been a suicide in the school, but it is also now adapted to help with all kinds of traumatic events. It includes a response plan for the school, training staff to be part of a crisis team who can step in and the resources they might need and other resource templates.   The Lifeline manuals are excellent resources offered by the SPTS that include training, tools, templates and more for schools in suicide prevention and dealing with the aftermath. The organization also offers workshops for different components of the manuals to help school staff in feeling more confident and being more competent around the issue of suicide, trauma and loss.

4. Conclusion As well as finding The Lifelines Trilogy prevention manuals and a mental health toolkit another training opportunity is the in person version of the online training Best practices. It looks at the limited but essential responsibilities educators have in the process of identifying a youth at risk and referring them to the right help, in the difficult setting of a school with limited resources.

5. https://sptsusa.org