CHOICES2: Reaching Out — the Crisis Centre's new youth suicide-prevention educational package is available in both stand-alone and trainer-accompanied formats.
As an evolution of the Crisis Centre's award-winning youth suicide prevention video Choices, CHOICES 2: Reaching Out is a leading-edge classroom educational and professional development tool that includes a comprehensive film and workshop package based on current evidence-based research.
This video and workshop system will help you prepare your students to Reach Out — to get help for themselves and to help their friends overcome suicidal feelings.
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Reaching Out classroom package — designed for presentations to students, parents and school personnel — available Oct. 15, 2007:
- A DVD featuring a story about a youth helping a friend to get support to overcome suicidal feelings.
- Documentary interviews with young adults who were touched by suicide during their high school years. The documentary footage is interwoven with the feature footage.
- A curriculum guide in PDF format and a PowerPoint presentation to help you custom build a youth suicide prevention workshop around the video (the PP presentation is also suitable for overhead transparencies).
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Reaching Out counsellor package — a professional development package for school counsellors and other youth services professionals — available Nov. 30, 2007:
- Contains all of the above features, PLUS
- A 13-minute video simulation of a counsellor conducting a suicide risk assessment with a student and a professional training manual.
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Add this empowering tool to your youth suicide-prevention resources. Get Reaching Out.
For more information, contact the Crisis Intervention and Suicide
Prevention Centre of BC:
or 604-872-1811
