Pricey dad and mom and caregivers,
As a lot of you recognize, we tragically misplaced a fourth grade scholar. Whereas phrases are insufficient to specific our ache and unhappiness, we provide our deepest condolences to household and mates.
There are lots of questions and considerations in our group concerning this tragedy. Whereas we do not need further official particulars to share at the moment, we all know that there are various rumors and un confirmed info that flow into. A kind of rumors is the opportunity of suicide. As a result of that is such a critical concern, it will be important for us to share as many sources as potential to assist our college students, employees and households. The difficulty of suicide raises much more troublesome and complicated questions. We’re right here to assist you and our college students. We are going to proceed to offer further assist on the campus as we course of this loss.
Tomorrow morning in third and fourth grade school rooms, we may have a dialog supported by psychological well being professionals to deal with the rumor of suicide.
There will probably be no conversations directed within the TK-2nd grade school rooms. In case your scholar is on TK-2nd and need a psychological well being supplier in school to deal with the suicide rumor, talk with our employees.
In Brook Haven, we is not going to have direct conversations within the school rooms from fifth to eighth grade tomorrow. If you would like a psychological well being supplier in school to deal with the rumor of suicide, talk with our employees. All through the varsity, we’re planning to broaden the suicide prevention classes that had been introduced in autumn to college students of seventh and eighth grade. Within the coming weeks, we’ll share classes that can deal with the significance of looking for assist when crucial, in addition to informing when listening to the details about a buddy or classmate.
We are going to provide a assist and data session for fogeys/caregivers of three: 00-Three: 45 pm tomorrow (Friday, February 21) in room 11 on the park facet. Within the session, we may have psychological well being suppliers current to share recommendation on the way to speak about dying and suicide with younger kids, assist their grieving course of and the way our group can start to heal. For these of you who can not do it, we will probably be blissful to attach individually and share info.
As well as, right here there are sources that may be helpful for households to evaluate:
Help kids after lack of a classmate to suicide (English/Spanish)
Assist kids take care of ache (English/Spanish)
Native duel sources
Ache improvement responses
Native disaster and useful resource numbers
We’re deeply dedicated to proceed doing all the things in our energy to ensure the assist and care of all our college students. We all know that there are not any phrases that assist heal the ache of this tragic loss, however we’re strident in our dedication to take measures to assist us heal and strengthen our group.
This assist session is simply the start of our dialog and group therapeutic efforts. We are going to facilitate further conversations and workshops within the coming weeks and months in a wide range of vital psychological well being and nicely -being points.
With deep sympathy,
Sara Gramm, Molly Bulwa, Rachel Lasek and Eric Dick
Sevastopol Union college district administration