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| What Is NHS Hope Squad? | How Hope Squad Helps our NHS Family | What We Do Behind the Scenes | ||
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Hope Squad is a peer-to-peer suicide prevention program. Hope Squad members are nominated by their classmates as trustworthy peers and trained by advisors. The program reduces youth suicide through:
| This Program is Nationally known for it’s ability to connect students with each other and to mental health resources. Hope Squad has a process that works on all levels for youth suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention.
| Train staff and community members in youth suicide prevention through evidence-based training. Hope Squads, advisors, and students are certified and trained as QPR gatekeepers.
Empower the natural helpers in your school through peer-to-peer suicide prevention training. Raise awareness of mental health and youth suicide prevention resources. Educate students on how to recognize suicide warning signs and respectfully report concerns. Train students how to support fellow students who may be struggling. Increase connectedness, inclusion, and social-emotional learning skills. Increase help-seeking behaviors. Reduce suicide attempts. | ||
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NHS Hope Squad’s Commitment to BIPOC* & LGBTQ+ Mental Health
NHS Hope Squad’s Commitment to Antiracism Work
* Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. By including “BI” Black and Indigenous in addition to “POC” people of color, we are honoring the unique experiences of Black and Indigenous individuals and their communities, as well as the spectrum of existence and experience by POC. |
Our goal is to promote and be effective in addressing mental health for all, we use a racial equity and intersectional lens to highlight, better understand, and effectively respond to the range of experiences held by individuals and families with diverse values, beliefs, and sexual orientations, in addition to backgrounds that vary by race, ethnicity, religion, and language.
We recognize that our community has significant work to do to commit to and promote anti-racism. We recognize that racism consists of principles and practices that cause and justify an inequitable distribution of rights, opportunities, and experiences across racial groups. Structural racism reflects the macrosocial system of public policies and institutional practices that work in various, often reinforcing, ways to perpetuate racial injustice.
Interpersonal racism reflects microsocial forces of culture expressed through discourse, attitudes, and behaviors that work in various, often reinforcing ways, to perpetuate racial injustice.
Systematic racism is when structural and interpersonal racism operate both separately and together. We resolve to actively listen to our BIPOC colleagues, friends, and communities to unlearn behavior and assumptions; to humbly admit when we are wrong, even in situations that make us uncomfortable. | |||
| NHS Hope Squad Gets Recognized by the LA Times High School Insider
Northwood High School Takes a Step Toward Youth Suicide Prevention
By Yejin Heo
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| Join us and our amazing NHS counselors for swag bag and mental health resources hand out during break by the oak. | Wear Red for Hope + Wear Your Hope Pin! | |||
| How Best to Support Hope Squad This Week? | Wear your Hope pin that our Squad will have placed in your mailbox by Tuesday. Wear Red for Hope on Thursday and Friday! Check out our NTV segment.
Thank kiddos wearing Hope Squad shirts and beanies for their hard work and dedication! | |||
| Got Any Questions? Please Feel Free to Reach Out! | ||||
