School Staff Resources
School staff play a vital role in suicide awareness, prevention and response. The Nebraska State Legislators implemented additional requirements beginning in school year 2023-24, all public-school employees who interact with students and any other appropriate personnel, as determined by the school superintendent, shall receive at least one hour of behavioral and mental health training with a focus on suicide awareness and prevention training each year.
Such training may include, but need not be limited to, topics such as identification of early warning signs and symptoms of behavioral and mental health issues in students, appropriate and effective responses for educators to student behavioral and mental health issues, trauma-informed care, and procedures for making students and parents and guardians aware of services and supports for behavioral and mental health issues. This training shall be provided within the framework of existing in-service training programs offered by the State Department of Education or as part of required professional development activities.
The list of approved trainings by the NDE.
Additional opportunities to learn more about suicide prevention and protective factors to help support students can be found in the Nebraska School Suicide Prevention Resource Guide. There are many links and resource within the guide.
Prevention Posters, On Demand Support, & Training Opportunities
Report Line Options & Other Posters:
1. Downloadable 988 and Safe2Help Nebraska Report Line Posters
Or click on 988 or Safe2Help Nebraska images to gain access to their report line services.
On-Demand Training Support:
Risk Assessment Screening Series
Anne Moss Rogers recorded webinar series is available for any school personnel to watch on our YouTube Channel. She also shared her valuable resources after each session for anyone to obtain to support students. To learn more about each of the three topics she covered in the series access the original flyer. The flyer has the webinar and resource links embedded or get them below:
Dr. Scott Polland’s recorded webinar series are supporting tools after a suicide with proactive postvention support. It is a six-part series available here:
Training Opportunities: 
Planning for Support After a Suicide Death in Your School Community
Nebraska School Mental Health Conference in Kearney
Presentation on Empowering Staff to Regulate Escalating Student Behavior
by NDE School Safety & Security Staff, Kim Jacobson & Sally Carlson
Hazelden Lifelines Prevention Curriculum supplemental resources:
If your school has acquired this curriculum through a grant or purchased it, contact the NDE.SuicidePrevention email for copies of the electronic implementation guide and presentations that NDE has developed to supplement the student lessons and training for staff and parents. (Due to copyright considerations, these resources can only be offered to schools who are in possession of the curriculum.)
Recently Added to Our Nebraska School Suicide Resource Guide
- Training in School Procedures for Suicide Risk Assessment – Fall 2024 – This on-demand training presentation was developed by the NDE Suicide Prevention Team to overview the suicide risk assessment process and covers administration protocols for both the SBQ-R and the Columbia Risk Assessment screeners.
- Mindfulness-exercises-teachers-guide – This assortment of activities was compiled by Anne Moss Rogers, MentalHealthAwareness.com.