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Grade 9-12
Activities for Grades 9-12
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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:
- 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.
- Reach Out & Help: Develop strategies for connecting with others and ways to alleviate anxiety about reaching out.
- “Start with Hello”: Apply methods to include others, build lasting relationships and support a connective & inclusive school and community
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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:
- Recognize warning signs and threats: Learn what warning signs and threats are and where they are likely to be found.
- 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.
- “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
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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:
- Recognize warning signs and threats: Learn what warning signs and threats are and where they are likely to be found.
- 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.
- “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