Wednesday, February 12, 2020

‘It’s OK to not be OK:’ How One High School Saved Lives with a 34-Question Survey



Giving high school students an honest survey on mental health and wellness may seem like risky business. Resources must be available to help students who report thoughts of an attempts at suicice. And the inability to reach such students in time may put the school in a liable position. But this high school in Colorado valued students' mental health as being more important than the inconvenience of providing help and the liability risk of not being able to. What they found out was both surprising and a catalyst for providing help to many students who were at risk for self-harm. Learn how they responded to student answers and what they learned as the result of their efforts at ...

https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/53780/its-ok-to-not-be-ok-how-one-high-school-saved-lives-with-a-34-question-survey


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