Please note: This is a Sole Source Notification. Specifications include, but are not limited to: Sources of Strength is a universal suicide prevention program designed to build socio-ecological protective influences among youth to reduce the likelihood that vulnerable students become suicidal. The program trains students as peer leaders and connects them with adult advisors at school and in the community. Peer leaders are selected by their peer groups and staff to represent all subgroups within the school population. With support from adult advisors, peer leaders create messages and conduct activities intended to change norms that influence coping practices and problem behaviors for all students. Activities are designed to reduce the acceptability of suicide as a response to distress, increase the acceptability of seeking help, improve communication between youth and adults, and to develop healthy coping attitudes among youth. Sources of Strength, Inc. is the only organization that can legally license schools to do the Sources of Strength training and is the only organization that can legally hold Sources of Strength Train-the-Trainer and Coaches Training for Elementary Schools. The AGO has specified that the Contractor for the IA is Sources of Strength, Inc.
