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Supporting Someone Experiencing Thoughts of Suicide
This is a manual filled with practical advice from Full Circle Grief Center created to help parents, caregivers, and loved ones supporting someone experiencing thoughts of suicide with guidance, reassurance, and tools to navigate times of distress.
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Fraternities and Mental Health: Supporting Emotional Well-Being Among Members and Across Campus
The Jed Foundation (JED) sheds light on how fraternities impact mental health on college campuses and offers recommendations to national fraternity leadership, administrators, and student leaders for enhancing mental health on college campuses, both inside and outside of fraternities. Fraternities have a substantial influence — both positive and negative — on college culture in the…
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988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline
This website gives background and current information about the crisis line and crisis response resources.
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A Pilot Test of a Graduate Course in Suicide Theory, Risk Assessment, and Management (2016)
This article looks at the effectiveness of a graduate-level course on a group of five graduate clinical psychology students. The researchers found that the course improved student awareness of 10 core competencies and their ability to connect with and assess a suicidal patient.
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Recognizing and Responding to Students in Distress: A Faculty Handbook
Often, there are indicators that a student is experiencing distress long before a situation escalates to a crisis. To assist students in maintaining their mental health and maximizing their intellectual growth, it is important to identify difficulties as early as possible. This handbook will help you to identify students in crisis and provide you with…
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Creating a Culture of Caring (2020)
From Active Minds and the Association of College and University Educators comes this guide of applied methods that faculty can use to support student mental health and wellbeing.
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Taking a Leave of Absence: A Guide for Campus Leadership, Faculty, & Staff (2021)
Provided by the Ruderman Family Foundation in partnership with Active Minds, this guide is designed to assist faculty and staff with creating a culture of caring and support for students who have decided to take a leave of absence. It provides strategies that institutions can use to assist students in their decision to take a…
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Students, Parents and Suicide: What’s the Role of the University? (WBUR, 2018)
This article looks at the legal and moral obligations that a college or university has regarding students in crisis and when to involve the parents.
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Virginia Suicide Prevention Resource Directory (2020)
This directory is designed to provide a comprehensive, easy-to-use reference of programs available in Virginia to assist individuals who may need suicide prevention resources. The directory also provides a list of available resources that are needed when people are impacted by suicide. All known national, state, and local resources are provided whenever possible.
