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Eureka Union trustees approve updated suicide-prevention policy after counselors outline tiered supports
Summary
The Eureka Union School District Board of Trustees voted to adopt revisions to Board Policy and Administrative Regulation 5,141.52 on suicide prevention after a district counseling team reviewed prevention, intervention and postvention practices and proposed next steps for staff training, parent outreach and data monitoring.
The Eureka Union School District Board of Trustees on May 5 approved revisions to Board Policy and Administrative Regulation 5,141.52, which govern suicide-prevention instruction, intervention and postvention practices.
District counselors outlined a multi-tiered approach to social-emotional learning and suicide prevention and described how that framework guides classroom lessons, targeted groups and intensive individual support. The counselors also highlighted the district’s use of the Aperture screening tool for TK–6 and Erica’s Lighthouse curriculum for middle-school suicide-prevention lessons.
The counselors said the district organizes supports in three tiers: universal, classroom-level instruction and themes such as…
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