Start Early and Stick with it

In addition, the Traumatic Loss Coalition of Youth Program recommends evidence based social emotional learning as the best way to approach suicide prevention at the elementary level. (See page 8-10 for the article, Suicide Prevention: Start Early and Stick with it. http://ubhc.umdnj.edu/brti/docs/TLCNewsletterFall2010.pdf.) SDM/PS SEL approach involves  systematically building social emotional competencies such as empathy, emotional regulation, problem solving, and social skills including giving and receiving help www.casel.org/downloads/newnowars.pdf .