We spent a lot of time in my class going over the curriculum and talking about mental illness and suicide prevention as we prepared out submissions for the Directing Change program. I later learned that one student participant noticed warning signs in a friend and talked to a trusted adult. The student said that everything she had learned on her Directing Change project came rushing back to her and she knew was she had to do when something didn’t feel right on a phone call with her friend. The friend ended up being rushed to the hospital and received help. I can honestly say that the Directing Change program was the most important and valuable curriculum we studied all year.
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