title: Adolescent help-seeking and the Yellow Ribbon Suicide Prevention Program: an evaluation.
abstract: The Yellow Ribbon Suicide Prevention Program has gained national and international recognition for its school- and community-based activities. After the introduction of Yellow Ribbon to a Denver-area high school, staff and adolescents were surveyed to determine if help-seeking behavior had increased. Using a pre-post intervention design, staff at an experimental school and comparison school were surveyed about their experiences with student help-seeking. Additionally, 146 students at the experimental high school were surveyed. Staff did not report any increase in student help-seeking, and students' reports of help-seeking from 11 of 12 different types of helpers did not increase; the exception was help-seeking from a crisis hotline, which increased from 2.1% to 6.9%. Further research with larger, more inclusive samples is needed to determine whether Yellow Ribbon is effective in other locations.
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Social Work, University of Denver, Denver, CO 80208, USA. Stacey.Freedenthal@du.edu
authors.forename: Stacey
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Freedenthal
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003120:Colorado; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care; D015397:Program Evaluation; D012574:Schools / Q000458:organization & administration; D059020:Suicidal Ideation; D013406:Suicide, Attempted / Q000517:prevention & control; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D000078329:Workforce; D000092864:Suicide Prevention