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District previews revised suicide-prevention lessons, explains risk-assessment steps and opt-out plan
Summary
Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified officials told the school board they revamped middle- and high-school suicide-prevention lessons, are standardizing a district risk-assessment packet, and will expand parent education and staff training; reported risk-assessment counts are lower this year than last, and follow-up protocols vary by risk level.
The Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District on Oct. 8 presented revised suicide-prevention lessons for grades 6–12 and outlined how the district identifies and follows up on students flagged during those lessons. Dr. Wylie and counselor Eliza Santa Rosa described updated, age-appropriate slide decks developed by a task force of SAGE therapists, school psychologists and counselors, and said the district will publish the presentations and a list of local resources online.
Board members heard that the district now uses a standardized suicide-risk assessment packet for mental-health…
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