Program Profile: Sources of Strength

This is a school-based, suicide prevention program designed to build protective influences across a full student population, using youth leaders from diverse cliques to develop messaging aimed at changing the norms and behaviors of their peers.

Evidence Rating: Promising | One study

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This is a school-based, suicide prevention program designed to build socioecological-protective influences across a full student population, using youth opinion leaders from diverse social cliques to develop and deliver messaging aimed at changing the norms and behaviors of their peers. This program is rated Promising. Peer leaders in the intervention schools showed statistically significant improvements on perceptions and behaviors pertaining to suicide and on social connectedness.

A Promising rating implies that implementing the program may result in the intended outcome(s).

This program's rating is based on evidence that includes at least one high-quality randomized controlled trial.

Date Created: July 17, 2024
Program Snapshot

Gender: Male, Female

Race/Ethnicity: White, Black, Hispanic, Other

Geography: Urban Rural

Setting (Delivery): School

Program Type: Crisis Intervention/Response, Mentoring, School/Classroom Environment

Current Program Status: Active

Program Director:
Mark LoMurray
Founder and Executive Director
Sources of Strength, Inc.

Lakewood, CO
United States

Phone: 701.471.7186
Website(link is external)
Email

Program Director:
Scott LoMurray
Deputy Director
Sources of Strength, Inc.

Lakewood, CO
United States

Phone: 701.471.7183
Website(link is external)
Email

Researcher:
Peter A. Wyman
Professor
Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester, School of Medicine & Dentistry

300 Crittenden Boulevard
Rochester, NY 14642
United States

Phone: 585.273.3372
Email