66 pages • 2 hours read
Jay AsherThirteen Reasons Why
Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2007A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more.
Further Reading & Resources
Further Reading: Beyond Literature (Nonfiction)
The Jed Foundation works to empower young adults, protect their emotional health, and prevent suicide. Their Mental Health Resource Center offers resources to help with one’s own mental health conditions and suggests ways to help one’s friends.
Mental health, suicide prevention, and educational experts collaborated on these recommendations for teachers about addressing the show in the classroom.
The Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN) offers a Safety for Students site with a wealth of information about consent, alcohol safety, and bystander intervention.
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) provides “Preventing Suicide: A Toolkit for High Schools,” a downloadable PDF that helps schools implement a suicide prevention program.
Suicide Awareness Voices of Education (SAVE) is known as “the leading national organization working to prevent suicide through public awareness, education and as a resource for suicide survivors.” SAVE also offers a suicide prevention curriculum for high schools called LEADS (Linking Education and Awareness for Depression and Suicide).
This resource from the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) provides information about consent and coercion, dating violence, and sexual assault as well as a list of resources for help and more information.
