Activities
Yellow Ribbon Week
Yellow Ribbon Week is a national suicide prevention event geared towards helping students become aware of the early warning signs and how to intervene effectively. This is a listing of some great web resources relating to Yellow Ribbon Week and suicide prevention.
This is a great list of suggested activities that you can do with students to help make them aware of Yellow Ribbon Week and empower them to know that they can make a difference in someone’s life.
This handout can be effective in meetings with students and as a resource during Yellow Ribbon Week at your school. It covers a variety of warning signs and risk factors associated with suicide.
This seven step process is great for students to be made aware of if they have concern regarding a friend that they feel may be contemplating suicide.
This matrix helps students to see how non-verbal actions can act as clues in the behavior of peers. This can be used with other handouts to give students another way of helping to aid in the early detection of someone contemplating suicide.
Common clues associated with someone considering suicide.
A glossary of the intervention skills most often used when working with a troubled student.
