Activities for Grades 9-12

Required Hour

Lesson/Activity

Resources/Notes

Social Inclusion:

1 Hour

Sandy Hook Promise: 

Start with Hello

Background:  We all need to feel like we belong somewhere. The truth is, we all offer something unique to the world, through our voice, talents, interests, culture, and perspective.   

Activity:  Students will watch a Start with Hello video to introduce the Goals & Program Framework (below), followed by a class discussion activity related to Building Empathy.

Goals

The three goals of the Start With Hello program are to teach students how to:

• Recognize loneliness and social isolation in their peers
• Help their peers who may be lonely and/or socially isolated
• Grow an empathetic and inclusive community

Program Framework

The goals are accomplished using a 3-step program framework:

1. See Someone Alone: Learn to understand social isolation, empathize with those who may feel alone, learn how “healthy alone time” is different, and emphasize the importance of connection.
2. Reach Out & Help:  Develop strategies for connecting with others and ways to alleviate anxiety about reaching out.
3. “Start with Hello”:  Apply methods to include others, build lasting relationships and support a connective & inclusive school and community

Sandy Hook Promise: Start with Hello

Start with Hello Family Video

Violence Awareness and Prevention:

1 Hour

Sandy Hook Promise: Say Something

Background:  The Say Something program teaches youth to recognize the warning signs of someone who may be in crisis and when and how to get help from Trusted Adults.

Activity:  Students will watch a Say Something video to introduce the Goals & Program Framework (below), followed by a class discussion activity related to Belonging and Warning Signs.

Goals: 

The three goals of the Say Something program are to teach students how to:

• Recognize warning signs and threats
• “Say Something” to a Trusted Adult to get help
• Grow a community of “Upstanders” who look out for one another

Program Framework:

The goals are accomplished using the 3-step program framework:

1. Recognize warning signs and threats: Learn what warning signs and threats are and where they are likely to be found.
2. Act Immediately; Take it Seriously: Understand how to take action and overcome the barriers that may exist to being an “Upstander” in prevention rather than a “bystander” to violence, victimization, or self-harm.
3. “Say Something”: Discover how to intervene when seeing warning signs and threats by telling a Trusted Adult and knowing who to go to for help. 

Sandy Hook Promise: Say Something

Say Something Parent Video

Suicide Prevention:

1 Hour

Sandy Hook Promise: Say Something - Prevent Suicide

Background:  The Say Something - Prevent Suicide program teaches youth the same three steps and what it means in terms of preventing suicide.

Activity:  Students will watch a Say Something - Prevent Suicide video to introduce the Goals & Program Framework (below), followed by a class discussion activity related to recognizing specific warning signs of suicide in their peers; how to take these warning signs seriously; and how to get help.

Goals: 

The three goals of the Say Something - Prevent Suicide program are to teach students how to:

• Recognize warning signs and threats
• “Say Something” to a Trusted Adult to get help
• Grow a community of “Upstanders” who look out for one another

Program Framework:

The goals are accomplished using the 3-step program framework:

1. Recognize warning signs and threats: Learn what warning signs and threats are and where they are likely to be found.
2. Act Immediately; Take it Seriously: Understand how to take action and overcome the barriers that may exist to being an “Upstander” in prevention rather than a “bystander” to violence, victimization, or self-harm.
3. “Say Something”: Discover how to intervene when seeing warning signs and threats by telling a Trusted Adult and knowing who to go to for help. 

Say Something - Prevent Suicide Parent Handbook

Say Something - Prevent Suicide Parent Quick Guide

Suicide and Crisis Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255

Crisis Text Line: 741-741