Mentoring

Notes and References

JAMA Open Network, October, 2020

Airmen learn skills to grow and sustain protective factors essential to job success, mental health and reduced suicide risk (Kinship, Purpose, Guidance, Balance). Class exercises create more cohesive units with skills extended into group culture.  Wingman Connect training is delivered to organizational units using interactive exercises to build key group and individual protective factors (Four Cores):

• Group cohesion and belonging (Kinship)
• Informal and formal support and help-seeking (Guidance)

Social Science & Medicine                     Social Science & Medicine 296 (2022) 114737

Specific modules and activities build healthy relationships and accountability (Kinship) informal and formal help-seeking (Guidance).

An Outcome Evaluation of Suicide Prevention Program Delivered by Adolescent Peer Leaders in High Schools   Am J Public Health. 2010 September; 100(9): 1653–1661

The norms most strongly enhanced through the intervention were students' perceptions that adults in their school can provide help to suicidal students and the acceptability of seeking help from adults.