• Proactively make efforts to decrease the incidence of undetected depression, self-injury, suicide attempts, and the number of middle school age youth who die by suicide
  
• Increase the attitudes and knowledge among school staff, students, and their parents about suicide and depression and how they are related.
  
• Encourage individual help-seeking and help-seeking on behalf of a friend
  
• Address the risk factors for self-injury and suicide
  
• Engage parents and school staff as partners in prevention
  
• Partner with community-based mental health providers and other community stake holders to prevent youth suicide
  
• Increase knowledge and confidence about accessing mental health services for at-risk youth and their families
  
• Reduce stigma associated with mental health problems
  

SOS was developed with the assistance of an advisory board  of school staff and experts in the fields of suicide, self-injury, and child psychiatry.

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