LC1: Context & Youth Development

Kirmayer, L., Simpson, C., & Cargo, M. (2003). Healing traditions: culture, community and mental health promotion with Canadian Aboriginal peoples. Australasian Psychiatry, 11.

Catalano, R.F., Berglund, M.L. Ryan, J.A.M., Lonczak H.S., and Hawkins, J.D. (2004). Positive youth development in the United States: Research findings on evaluations of positive youth development programs. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 591, 1, 98-124.

Kirmayer, L., Simpson, C., & Cargo, M. (October 01, 2003). Healing traditions: culture, community and mental health promotion with Canadian Aboriginal peoples. Australasian Psychiatry, 11.

Rasmus, S. M., Allen, J., & Ford, T. (2014). “Where I have to learn the ways how to live:” youth resilience in a Yup'ik village in Alaska. Transcultural psychiatry, 51(5), 713–734.

Ribeiro, J. D., Pease, J. L., Gutierrez, P. M., Silva, C., Bernert, R. A., Rudd, M. D., & Joiner, T. E., Jr (2012). Sleep problems outperform depression and hopelessness as cross-sectional and longitudinal predictors of suicidal ideation and behavior in young adults in the military. Journal of affective disorders, 136(3), 743–750.

Wexler L. M. (2006). Inupiat youth suicide and culture loss: Changing community conversations for prevention. Social Science & Medicine (1982), 63(11), 2938–2948.

Wyman P. A. (2014). Developmental approach to prevent adolescent suicides: research pathways to effective upstream preventive interventions. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 47(3 Supplement 2), S251–S256.


LC2: Prevention

Barber, C., Hemenway, D. & Miller, M. (2016). How physicians can reduce suicide without changing anyone’s mental health. The American Journal of Medicine, 129, 10, 1016-1017.

Craig, J. and Hull-Jilly, D. (2012). Characteristics of suicide among Alaska Native and Alaska non-Native People, 2003–2008. State of Alaska Epidemiology. Available at: http://www.epi.hss.state.ak.us/bulletins/docs/rr2012_01.pdf (Accessed: 2 November 2016).

Litchman, M. L., Walker, H. R., Ng, A. H., Wawrzynski, S. E., Oser, S. M., Greenwood, D. A., Gee, P. M., Lackey, M., & Oser, T. K. (2019). State of the Science: A Scoping Review and Gap Analysis of Diabetes Online Communities. Journal of diabetes science and technology, 13(3), 466–492.

Mann, J. J., et al. (2005). Suicide prevention strategies: a systematic review. JAMA, 294(16), 2064–2074.

Motto, J. A., & Bostrom, A. G. (2001). A randomized controlled trial of postcrisis suicide prevention. Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.), 52(6), 828–833.

Suicideproof.org (n.d.) Available at: http://www.suicideproof.org/suicide-proof.html (Accessed: 16 November 2016).

van Der Feltz-Cornelis, C.M., Sarchiapone, M., Postuvan, V., et al. (2011). Best practice elements of multilevel suicide prevention strategies: A review of systematic reviews. Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention, 32, 6, 319.

Yip, P. S., Caine, E., Yousuf, S., Chang, S. S., Wu, K. C., & Chen, Y. Y. (2012). Means restriction for suicide prevention. Lancet (London, England), 379(9834), 2393–2399.


LC3: Grief and Healing

Cook, F.J., Langford, L. & Ruocco, K. (2017). Evidence- and practice-informed approach to implementing peer grief support after suicide systematically in the USA, Death Studies, 41, 10, 648-658.

Corr, C.A. Let’s stop “staging” persons who are coping with loss. Illness, Crisis & Loss. 2015;23(3):226-241.

Holland, J. (2008). How Schools Can Support Children Who Experience Loss and Death. British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 36, 4, 411-424.

Linde K, Treml J, Steinig J, Nagl M, Kersting A (2017). Grief interventions for people bereaved by suicide: A systematic review. PLOS ONE 12(6): e0179496.

Lytje M. (2017). Towards a model of loss navigation in adolescence. Death studies, 41(5), 291–302.

Noble-Carr, D., Australian Catholic University., & Australian Catholic University. (2017). “I just keep my tears all inside”: Experiences of loss from children whose families face complex challenges and change.


LC4: Postvention for Schools

Owens, E.C. (2014). An analysis of school-based suicide postvention protocols. (UMI No. 3670200) [Doctoral dissertation, State University of New York at Albany]. ProQuest LLC.

DeHart, K.R. (2019). Integrative suicide postvention protocol for adolescents in a high school setting. (UMI No. 22589965) [Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi College]. ProQuest LLC.

American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, & Suicide Prevention Resource Center. (2018). After a suicide: A toolkit for schools 2nd edition.

Poland, S., Lieberman, R., & Niznik, M. (2019). Suicide contagion and clusters- part 1: What school psychologists should know. Communiqué, 47(5), 1, 21-23


LC5: Support for Youth and Everyday Caring

Caine, E.D. (2013). Forging an agenda for suicide prevention in the United States. American Journal of Public Health, 103, 5, 822-9.

Donovan, R. J., & Anwar-McHenry, J. (2016). Act-Belong-Commit: Lifestyle Medicine for Keeping Mentally Healthy. American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine, 10, 3, 193-199.

Jalleh, G., Donovan, R.J., James, R. & Ambridge, J. (2007). Process evaluation of the act-belong-commit mentally healthy WA campaign: First 12 months data. Health Promotion Journal of Australia, 18, 3, 217-220.

Mann, J. J., Apter, A., Bertolote, J., Beautrais, A. L., Currier, D., Haas, A., Hegerl, U., ... Hendin, H. (2005). Suicide prevention strategies: A systematic review. The Journal of the American Medical Association, 294, 16, 2064-2074.

School Climate and Connectedness Survey. (2018). Bering Strait School District (BSSD) results. Shared with permission through a data request.

Stuart, J., & Jose, P. E. (2014). The protective influence of family connectedness, ethnic identity, and ethnic engagement for New Zealand Māori adolescents. Developmental Psychology, 50, 6, 1817-1826.

Wexler, L., & Goodwin, B. (2006). Youth and adult community member beliefs about Inupiat youth suicide and its prevention. International journal of circumpolar health, 65(5).

Youth Risk Behavior Survey. (2017). Bering Strait School District (BSSD) results. Shared with permission through a data request.


LC6 & LC7: Review & Moving On with Vision

Gruen, R. L., Elliott, J. H., Nolan, M. L., Lawton, P. D., Parkhill, A., McLaren, C. J., & Lavis, J. N. (2008). Sustainability science: an integrated approach for health-programme planning. The Lancet372, 9649, 1579-1589.

St. Leger, L. (2005). Questioning sustainability in health promotion projects and programs. Health Promotion International, 20, 4, 317-319.

Stirman, S. W., Kimberly, J., Cook, N., Calloway, A., Castro, F., & Charns, M. (2012). The sustainability of new programs and innovations: a review of the empirical literature and recommendations for future research. Implementation Science7, 1, 17.

Swerissen, H., & Crisp, B. R. (2004). The sustainability of health promotion interventions for different levels of social organization. Health Promotion International, 19, 1, 123-130.

Whelan, J., Love, P., Pettman, T., Doyle, J., Booth, S., Smith, E., & Waters, E. (2014). Cochrane update: predicting sustainability of intervention effects in public health evidence: identifying key elements to provide guidance. Journal of Public Health36, 2, 347-351.

Winterton, R., & Hulme Chambers, A. (2017). Developing sustainable social programmes for rural ethnic seniors: perspectives of community stakeholders. Health & Social Care in the Community25, 3, 868-877.