“Sources of Strength is a best practice youth mental health and wellness promotion and suicide prevention program designed to harness the power of peer social networks to create healthy norms and culture, ultimately preventing suicide, violence, bullying, and substance misuse. The mission of Sources of Strength is to prevent adverse outcomes by increasing well-being, help-seeking, resiliency, healthy coping, and belonging. Sources of Strength moves beyond a singular focus on risk factors by utilizing an upstream approach for youth suicide prevention. This upstream model strengthens multiple sources of support, or protective factors, for young people so that when times get hard, they have strengths to rely on.”
District Prevention Coordinator Sierra Marsh will be hosting an information session with Sources of Strength’s team on Thursday, February 15 at 5pm. This session will be virtual and will address the purpose behind student wellness programming, the process through which Sources of Strength was identified, and, of course, the program itself. You may access the session using this Zoom Link.
We will be reviewing the content we've received during a
feedback forum on Wednesday, February 21st at 2:30pm to address the feedback received. You may access the session using this Zoom Link.
The Student Wellness and Suicide Prevention committee will be meeting in person on Wednesday March 6th from 7:30-8:30 to make recommendations to the Murray Board of Education. If you would like to participate in this committee, please contact Sierra Marsh at smarsh@murrayschools.org.
Thank you!
