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This presentation will help school psychologists guide schools through tragedy by learning effective, best practice strategies to support students, faculty, staff, and families after a suicide death. Content includes tasks for conducting postvention activities, use of screening tools in a postvention setting, and strategies for responding to typical dilemmas such as handling memorials, responding to denial that the death was a suicide and reacting to information spread on social media. The presentation shares new qualitative data from interviews with young adults who were students in schools where they experienced the suicide death of a student in their middle or high school.  
 
Learner Objectives
 
This session will help participants:

1. Identify three goals of an effective suicide postvention response. 
2. Describe 12 tasks to implement following the suicide death of a student or other member of the school community. 
3. Identify practical solutions to at least three common dilemmas following the suicide death of a student.