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Grade 9-12

Activities for Grades 9-12

HB123 TROY HIGH SCHOOL LETTER TO PARENTS

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    Required Hour

    Lesson/Activity

    Resources/Notes

    Social Inclusion:

    1 Hour

    Sandy Hook Promise: 

    Start with Hello

    Background: We all need to feel like we belong somewhere. The truth is, we all offer something unique to the world, through our voice, talents, interests, culture, and perspective.

    Activity: Students will watch a Start with Hello video to introduce the Goals & Program Framework (below), followed by a class discussion activity related to Building Empathy.

    Goals

    The three goals of the Start With Hello program are to teach students how to:

    • Recognize loneliness and social isolation in their peers
    • Help their peers who may be lonely and/or socially isolated
    • Grow an empathetic and inclusive community

    Program Framework

    The goals are accomplished using a 3-step program framework:

    1. See Someone Alone: Learn to understand social isolation, empathize with those who may feel alone, learn how “healthy alone time” is different, and emphasize the importance of connection.
    2. Reach Out & Help: Develop strategies for connecting with others and ways to alleviate anxiety about reaching out.
    3. “Start with Hello”: Apply methods to include others, build lasting relationships and support a connective & inclusive school and community

    Sandy Hook Promise: Start with Hello

    Start with Hello Family Video

  • Violence Awareness and Prevention:

    1 Hour

    Sandy Hook Promise: Say Something

    Background: The Say Something program teaches youth to recognize the warning signs of someone who may be in crisis and when and how to get help from Trusted Adults.

    Activity: Students will watch a Say Something video to introduce the Goals & Program Framework (below), followed by a class discussion activity related to Belonging and Warning Signs.

    Goals: 

    The three goals of the Say Something program are to teach students how to:

    • Recognize warning signs and threats
    • “Say Something” to a Trusted Adult to get help
    • Grow a community of “Upstanders” who look out for one another

    Program Framework:

    The goals are accomplished using the 3-step program framework:

    1. Recognize warning signs and threats: Learn what warning signs and threats are and where they are likely to be found.
    2. Act Immediately; Take it Seriously: Understand how to take action and overcome the barriers that may exist to being an “Upstander” in prevention rather than a “bystander” to violence, victimization, or self-harm.
    3. “Say Something”: Discover how to intervene when seeing warning signs and threats by telling a Trusted Adult and knowing who to go to for help. 

    Sandy Hook Promise: Say Something

    Say Something Parent Video



     

  • Suicide Prevention:

    1 Hour

    Sandy Hook Promise: Say Something - Prevent Suicide

    Background: The Say Something - Prevent Suicide program teaches youth the same three steps and what it means in terms of preventing suicide.

    Activity: Students will watch a Say Something - Prevent Suicide video to introduce the Goals & Program Framework (below), followed by a class discussion activity related to recognizing specific warning signs of suicide in their peers; how to take these warning signs seriously; and how to get help.

    Goals: 

    The three goals of the Say Something - Prevent Suicide program are to teach students how to:

    • Recognize warning signs and threats
    • “Say Something” to a Trusted Adult to get help
    • Grow a community of “Upstanders” who look out for one another

    Program Framework:

    The goals are accomplished using the 3-step program framework:

    1. Recognize warning signs and threats: Learn what warning signs and threats are and where they are likely to be found.
    2. Act Immediately; Take it Seriously: Understand how to take action and overcome the barriers that may exist to being an “Upstander” in prevention rather than a “bystander” to violence, victimization, or self-harm.
    3. “Say Something”: Discover how to intervene when seeing warning signs and threats by telling a Trusted Adult and knowing who to go to for help. 

    Say Something - Prevent Suicide Parent Handbook

    Say Something - Prevent Suicide Parent Quick Guide

    Suicide and Crisis Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255

    Crisis Text Line: 741-741