How might I use this Guide? 

 The guide is designed to help mental health leadership teams to understand and implement the core elements of effective school-based suicide prevention and life promotion. It outlines best practices in implementation of school-based activities and highlights potentially harmful practices that should be avoided.   

This guide aims to provide decision makers with information related to the key roles that they play in effective, comprehensive suicide prevention and life promotion in schools. These roles create conditions, coordinate programing, consider specific populations, create capacity, collaborate across community, communicate progress.