Guidelines for Youth
| Topic(s) | Category | |
|---|---|---|
A practitioner's resource guide: Helping families to support their LGBT childrenThis resource guide offers information and resources to help practitioners throughout health and social service systems implement best practices in engaging and helping families and caregivers to support their lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) children. Research has shown that compared to LGBT young adults who reported high levels of family rejection during adolescence were 8.4 times more likely to report having attempted suicide. |
Families-Parents and Caregivers, LGBT, Youth, Family Support | |
Media guidelines for school administrators who may interact with reporters about youth suicideThis brief manual explores how media accounts can actually serve as a suicide prevention tool by: assisting news professionals to report responsibly and accurately; using a media request for information as an opportunity to influence the contents of the story; emphasizing the importance of listing available community resources for individuals at-risk and describing what is being done to promote safety for vulnerable individuals in the aftermath of a suicide; and warning against the aspects of news coverage that may promote copycat suicides. |
Youth, Working with News Media, School | |
Suicidality and help-seeking behaviors in American Indian youthData Trend #143 May 2007. This fact sheet summarizes research on suicidality and help-seeking behavior in American Indian youth and discusses the importance of culture in determining both outcomes. |
American Indian-Alaska Native, Youth, Increase Help-seeking |