Florida School Toolkit for K-12 Educators to Prevent Suicide

Additional Steps to Promote a Culture of Suicide Prevention • Create policy memos regarding staff training and intervention expectations. • Disseminate messages from administrative leaders across the district/school. • Ensure administrative leadership addresses suicide prevention at least once per year during in-service opportunities. • Confirm leadership in district/schools is aware of student suicide risk assessment and procedures in order to encourage early help-seeking behavior. • Note that leadership in the smallest and most isolated schools where no counselors are available must be comfortable with suicide assessment using the brief version of the Columbia C-SSRS (Tool 14a). Florida S.T.E.P.S.