SOAR (Strengthening Opportunities for Achievement and Resilience) Project at South Alabama

SOAR (Strengthening Opportunities for Achievement and Resilience) is research project funded by the National Institutes of Health that aims to reduce violence and suicidality in middle school students by helping them feel safe and connected to their schools and communities. SOAR is a community intervention that integrates efforts across the Mobile County Public School System and the University of South Alabama. SOAR will work to give teachers skills and tools to enhance their current efforts as well as bring communities together to enhance relationships. We hope that SOAR will not only have a direct benefit for the communities we will be working with, but will help us inform a national model for how we can reduce violence and suicide.

SOAR is a multi-system intervention and research program that aims to reduce youth violence and suicidality. We work with school personnel at four middle schools in the Mobile County Public School System, and conduct surveys from students at these four schools as well. Everything we do is designed in compliance with IRB approval and more information is available by contacting the program director.