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Suicide Prevention for Educators Online Training Course

Video Submission Guide 2026

Prevent Suicide PA, in partnership with Commonwealth agencies and the Montgomery County Intermediate Unit is excited to announce our update to the Suicide Prevention for Educators Online Training Course, set to release during the 2026-2027 school year and we need your help! We’re featuring the voices of youth, teachers, staff, and administrators in the training series to highlight important areas of suicide prevention and mental health and wellness.

Our ask is that youth-serving organizations have schools and organizations record brief videos, utilizing the prompts below, and submit footage to Prevent Suicide PA by June 12, 2026. Final video clips and consent forms (below) may be sent via WeTransfer.com to matthew.wintersteen@jefferson.edu. Please be sure to include all media consent/assent forms for all participants with your video submission. If challenges occur with WeTransfer.com please reach out to phouseal@mciu.org.

Please note – consent forms (bottom of webpage) are needed for any person featured in film.

Video Specifications
– Please use phone or video recordings that are at least 4k in quality.
– Please use an external microphone when speaking.

Additional Asks

Feature your school in our training series and share the following candid video clips:

  • Students interacting at lunch, the hallways, or at sporting/club events
  • Students walking down the hallways
  • Other candid video featuring students and teachers, feel free to include shots with your school logo

When filming, please utilize Words Matter: The Language of Suicide for safe messaging guidelines for suicide prevention.

Question Prompts for Videos

Questions for Students and Teachers
  1. What does mental health mean to you?
  2. Why do you feel like it is important to talk about mental health and suicide prevention in schools?
  3. What are some things you’ve heard about suicide and suicide prevention that you think are not true or that you feel isn’t helpful?
  4. When you think about suicide prevention what do you most want to know?
  5. What is your school already doing around suicide prevention?
  6. What do you see as the role of students in suicide prevention?
  7. How does your school promote safety, safe spaces, and connectedness?
  8. Is there anything you would like your teachers, school administrators, or school staff to know about how to support your mental health?
  9. When thinking about student mental wellness in schools, what gives you hope?
Questions for School Administrators
  1. What does mental health mean to you?
  2. What is involved in leading comprehensive school mental health and suicide prevention efforts?
  3. What is the role of your school’s suicide prevention policies and procedures? Feel free to share how these were developed, how they’ve evolved, how they guide staff, and/or how they connect with practice?
  4. How does your school promote safety, safe spaces, and connectedness?
  5. What effective policies, practices, or programs does your school implement as part of:
    1. Prevention for the school community?
    2. Identification and support for students that may be at risk of suicide?
    3. Response to a crisis, such as a suicide attempt or death (i.e. re-entry, postvention)?
  6. What have been some of the challenges or barriers to your school’s efforts around:
    1. Prevention for the school community?
    2. Identification and support for students that may be at risk of suicide?
    3. Response to a crisis, such as a suicide attempt or death (i.e. re-entry, postvention)?
  7. What resources have been especially important to supporting your school’s comprehensive suicide prevention efforts?
  8. What is your understanding of Act 71 requirements for schools? (For example, Student Prevent Policy, Staff Education, and/or Student Education)
Questions for School Mental Health Professionals and Nurses
  1. What does mental health mean to you?
  2. Why do you feel it is important to talk about mental health and suicide prevention in schools?
  3. What is the role of school mental health professionals and school nurses in:
    1. Prevention for the school community?
    2. Identification and support for students that may be at risk of suicide?
    3. Response to a crisis, such as a suicide attempt or death (i.e. re-entry, postvention)?
  4. How have your school’s suicide prevention policies and procedures supported your work as a school mental health professional or school nurse?
  5. What are some best practices you would highlight in any of the following areas?
    1. Prevention for the school community?
    2. Identification and support for students that may be at risk of suicide?
    3. Response to a crisis, such as a suicide attempt or death (i.e. re-entry, postvention)?
  6. How does your school promote safety, safe spaces, and connectedness?
  7. What have been some of the challenges or barriers to your school’s efforts around:
    1. Prevention for the school community?
    2. Identification and support for students that may be at risk of suicide?
    3. Response to a crisis, such as a suicide attempt or death (i.e. re-entry, postvention)?

Submission Info & Consent Forms

Full Submission Guide

This document outlines everything included on this webpage, including the two consent forms.

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Consent Form – Under 18

Please complete and submit this consent form for anyone who is under 18 that appears in any videos you submit.

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Consent Form – Over 18

Please complete and submit this consent form for anyone who is over 18 that appears in any videos you submit.

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