About this Resource
Schools can play an integral role in supporting a sense of hope for the future. Students spend more time in school than any other environment, thereby offering an important opportunity for connectedness in each of their lives. A life promoting culture has multiple components. Each piece, whether staff, parents, community, learning spaces, curriculum or the students themselves, is strengthened by the connection between all the components.
Our Creating Pathways of Hope Planning Tool: Suicide Prevention and Life Promotion document offers background information related to suicide prevention, foundational understanding references, and an introduction to our design thinking toolkit.
Design Thinking Toolkit: Building Life Promoting Cultures in Schools extends the traditional design thinking model to consider the current work school authorities and stakeholder groups are doing to support suicide prevention in their contexts by providing some front-end thinking tools and ongoing evaluation and sustainability elements.
