Wednesday, January 15, 2025
1/15/2025
The proposed program is based on the premise that suicide risk is three- tiered including early identification and assessment of at-risk students, referral to community resources for additional services, and enhancement of protective factors that increase resilience and provide buffers from stress while in college. The CLASS project seeks to expand and strengthen the “safety net” for LaGuardia students at risk for mental health concerns, in particular suicide, and seeks to promote suicide awareness through prevention, intervention, and co-curricular prevention programming. The overall goals of the CLASS program project are to increase awareness of mental health and suicide awareness through evidence-based and best practice trainings. This will include providing faculty, staff and students with helpful tips and resources that improve their comfort level when asking necessary questions that might prevent suicide, and how to assist a student in seeking help; decrease stigma and increase awareness of mental health issues and suicide awareness especially among high risk and non-English speaking populations on campus; and promote resilience or “protective” factors including assisting college students in identifying a trusted person in their support network and to ask for help. Measurable objectives include having the Wellness Center, Health Services, Recreation Staff and key Public Safety officers participate in the Mental Health First Aid training during the project’s first year. This will total about 20 persons. Four LAGCC Staff will become certified trainers in MHFA as documented by certification. In addition, we expect that 100 Students and 30 Graduate Mental Health Counseling and Social Work Interns will participate in MHFA Training during the three years of the project as captured by attendance records. Students will also be recruited from our Peer Educators, Student Government Association, Student Clubs and through Volunteer applications. We will also implement student workshops in English and other languages (e.g. Spanish, ASL) in order to promote awareness and accessibility for all students, engaging at least 1,000 students during the project period.
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