Friday, November 22, 2024
11/22/2024
Morehead State University seeks to create a Suicide Prevention Program that will systematically create a campus environment that is safer for all students, staff, and faculty, to intervene and assist those at risk for suicide, and to create an enhanced infrastructure to promote a cultural change regarding the perception of mental health. This will be accomplished using a public health model, expanding programs and services, and targeting 25% of all MSU students. QPR training will be provided to help everyone recognize and respond to those identified as at risk for suicide. The success of this model on college campuses rests on the ability to detect students at risk for suicide, effectively referring them for a professional evaluation, and providing access to meaningful and appropriate mental health treatment. Program goals and objectives: develop momentum among campus administrators and leadership through presentations and discussion on the importance of suicide prevention activities to the MSU campus; educate the community of students and stakeholders in suicide prevention indicators by providing QPR Gatekeeper training with targeted groups of students, staff, faculty, and community stakeholders; to provide information to parents of MSU students during student orientation on identification of depression and other mental health issues, specifically warning signs of suicide, and the intervention process; to develop and build infrastructure for MSU Suicide Prevention Plan, including a written protocol for the behavioral intervention team; to establish campus advisory groups and main campus and 4 regional campuses; to build community networks and establish partnerships between MSU and community mental and physical health providers; to develop a protocol for postvention and establish policies and procedures to serve as a guide for managing situations when there has been a suicide attempt.
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