Section 71-38-IV - Protocols for suicide prevention and interventionA. School administrative units shall have protocols for suicide prevention and intervention and counseling services after an incident of youth suicide. 1. Protocols shall be based on the best practices established and maintained by the National Alliance on Mental Illness Maine or a similar organization authorized by the Department of Health and Human Services through its suicide prevention program and the Maine Department of Education. 2. The protocol development resources developed by the department will provide protocol templates, models and examples of forms, protocols and flow charts that can be adapted as needed by SAUs.3. The SAUs will certify to the Maine Department of Education that the required protocols are in place.B. Protocols shall be in place 2019-2020 school year.05- 71 C.M.R. ch. 38, § IV