Books & References

• National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Publications

  This NIMH website offers booklets, easy to read fact sheets and publications in both English and Spanish.

• National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Spanish Language Publications

  This NIMH website offers booklets, easy to read fact sheets and publications in both English and Spanish.

• Suicide Prevention Resource Center - SPRC Library

  The Suicide Prevention Resource Center offers an online library for suicide prevention resources in English and Spanish. This is a searchable collection of resource materials on various topics in suicide, suicide prevention, and mental health. Many of the materials are available full-text for free online. The collection is maintained by the Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC) and items are regularly added by professional librarians.

• Resilience Guide for Parents & Teachers, American Psychological Association

  This link provides a list of articles from the American Psychological Association relating to resilience.

Articles for Teens

From teenshealth.org

• Suicide

• My Friend Is Talking About Suicide. What Should I Do?

• I'm Thinking of Suicide. How Can I Stop?

• Am I Depressed?

• Death and Grief

• Going to a Therapist

• Finding Low-Cost Mental Health Care

Student Data

• California Healthy Kids Survey

  The California Healthy Kids Survey (CHKS) is the largest statewide survey of resiliency, protective factors, risk behaviors, and school climate in the nation. The California Health Kids Survey collects data on from students in grades 5, 7, 9 and 11 about attitudes, behaviors, and experiences related to school and learning. District level reports can be accessed from http://chks.wested.org/reports/search/

• California School Dashboard

  The Fall 2017 Dashboard shows how districts and schools are performing on test scores, graduation rates and other measures of student success.

• Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

  It monitors six types of health-risk behaviors that contribute to the leading causes of death and disability among youth and adults. Data from high school and middle school surveys are included. You can filter and sort on the basis of race/ethnicity, sex, grade, sexual orientation, or site.