Student and Parent Centered Programs

QPR For Youth


Question, Persuade, and Refer For Youth
Ask a question, save a life.

Suicide Prevention Gatekeeper training for students grades 7-12


Just as people are trained in CPR to help save thousands of lives each year, people trained in QPR learn how to recognize the warning signs of a suicide crisis and how to question, persuade, and refer someone to help. We all know that most young people will talk to their friends before an adult, so don’t forget to train your students. Each year thousands of Americans, are saying "Yes" to saving the life of a friend, colleague, sibling, or neighbor.


For more information contact:

Karen Lackey MSSA, LISW-S
Student Wellness Coordinator
Sources of Strength

Sources of Strength is a best practice, strength-based, upstream suicide prevention and mental health promotion program that has shown effectiveness in both preventative upstream and intervention outcomes. Sources offers exceptional training for both youth and adults in secondary schools and community-based settings and has moved even further upstream with an elementary model featuring a fully stratified K-5 curriculum. Sources of Strength takes a strength-based, upstream approach to preventing negative outcomes while promoting well-being, help-seeking, resilience, healthy coping, and a sense of belonging.

Rather than focusing solely on risk factors, Sources of Strength strengthens multiple protective factors, ensuring individuals have resources to rely on during difficult times. We wholeheartedly believe in the HOPE, HELP, and STRENGTH each individual can cultivate in themselves and others. By moving upstream in the prevention cycle, Sources of Strength fosters health and wellness, empowering both students and adults to build communities of belonging and connection.

With a strong commitment to evidence-based practices, Sources of Strength has programming to meet the unique needs and context of each community we serve, creating the foundation to empower a well world.

For more information on Sources of Strength visit https://sourcesofstrength.org/..


How can your bring Sources of Strength to your district or community?

Contact:

Holly Jacobson M.Ed., OCPC
Student Wellness Consultant
440-476-6529
Engaging Youth Voice

ENGAGING YOUTH VOICE

EMPOWER young people to be a positive voice in their school and community.


Engaging Youth Voice can improve student engagement and outcomes using tools to engage youth strategically and empower a generation of youth as future leaders. 

Through engagement, development, and empowerment, youth voice works together to position youth as both recipients of services and active change agents—providing them with opportunities to learn, participate in school/community change efforts, and build the confidence and awareness needed to influence and transform the systems that impact their lives.

Trained districts have used this process for such things as empowering positive youth voice after a school walk-out, to address chronic absenteeism, identifying root causes of school anxiety, and creating an innovate initiative to improve students’ commitment to learning.

For program, training and consultation information contact:

Karen Lackey MSSA, LISW-S
Student Wellness Coordinator
karen.lackey@escneo.org
Social Media Safety

Social Media prevention education for students, parents, and community organizations. 

  • Classroom 
  • Students/Parent

Vision

To reduce student anxiety, conflict, risky behavior and low self-image by addressing a key contributor, technology and social media. This multi-tiered approach is focused on skill building and critical thinking on issues related to safe, healthy and positive use of devices. In addition, to empower every parent with comprehensive information to support safe and age-appropriate technology use.

Goals

· Increase understanding of the impact of technology on sleep, learning/memory, anxiety and self-concept for parents, students and the community.

· Improve interpersonal skills by analyzing how people communicate differently online than in person, and what that means for current and future relationships.

· Gain a new perspective on key safety concepts such as screen names, types of posts, what you choose to re-tweet and potential social consequences, including the permanence of posts and texts.

· Increase students’ ability to make their best online decisions regarding safety, friendships, and personal wellness. 
Karen Lackey MSSA LISW-S
Karen Lackey MSSA LISW-S
Coordinator
Holly Jacobson M.Ed., OCPC
Holly Jacobson M.Ed., OCPC
Consultant
Jennie Canganelli M.Ed.,OCPC
Jennie Canganelli M.Ed.,OCPC
Consultant