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o Suicide myths —language shift(not commit because it is criminalizing, <br /> instead shifting to completed suicide/took life. <br /> o Needham's model including a crisis team is very effective and worth <br /> exploring. Administration is integral and can represent the needs for <br /> budgets and longer term plan <br /> o Clear that the 5 people who attended this training from Lexington will be <br /> able to work as a team, which will lead to action plans and outcomes. <br /> • Major change this year: what is available and needed across Lexington residents' <br /> life span <br /> • Update from school <br /> o Prevention program by grade. Collaborates across school and town <br /> department <br /> o HPAC—state mandate, meet 4 times a year. Town, school, community, <br /> student practitioners attend the open meeting <br /> o Years ago, Lexington applied for grant for prevention specialist. This was <br /> dropped for a year about 10 years ago. Students advocated for this and got <br /> the position back <br /> o Peer educators: —150 kids who go to grades 5th, 6th, and 7th grade classes. <br /> ■ 5th grade: prevention beyond drugs and alcohol. Include science <br /> about the developing brain. Hoping to bring elementary health <br /> back. It was cut with the prevention specialist. Now 5th grade is the <br /> only health educate elementary schools receive. <br /> ■ 6 t grade: booster to 5th grade health. <br /> ■ Middle schools focus on 8th grade health, twice a week for one <br /> semester. The prevention specialist comes to the 8th grade health <br /> classes to do a drug module, which is science based. <br /> ■ Julie works closely with the co-director of the Substance Abuse <br /> Program on information regarding the brain and addiction with <br /> Boston Children's Hospital and Lexington biology teachers. <br /> McLean and Boston Children's Hospital have tried to get grants to <br /> evaluate the efficacy of the curriculum. Other communities use <br /> Lexington's model because it is effective, especially regarding <br /> marijuana. <br /> o Leadership Training <br /> ■ The guidance counsellors select middle school students. High <br /> school students train them in leadership skills <br /> ■ LHS students train other towns. It is good for LHS kids to leave <br /> the Lexington bubble. <br /> o Students Against Destructive Decisions (SADD) club are on Instagram <br /> and Facebook. <br /> o Focus on how to use social media positively <br /> o Alcohol—substance abuse task force. This grew because of the coalition. <br /> YRBS data—correlation between substance abuse and mental health, need <br /> to address both. <br /> o Mission: how to improve YRBS <br /> o Findings from YRBS —alcohol use is starting in middle school <br />