Adi's Act does not mention or authorize screening.
That sentence is here because the opposite is widely believed in Oregon.
What it does require
ORS 339.343 requires every Oregon school district to adopt a student suicide prevention plan. Planning, response and postvention. It is a planning statute.
The plan must address high-risk groups, and the statute names them: youth bereaved by suicide; youth with disabilities, mental illness or substance use disorders; youth experiencing homelessness or out-of-home settings such as foster care; and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and other minority gender identities and sexual orientations.
A district that does not comply is nonstandard under ORS 327.103.
Why the confusion matters
A district that believes Adi's Act authorizes screening has not read ORS 336.216, which is the statute that actually governs it, and which is restrictive rather than enabling. That district may be operating outside a constraint it does not know exists.
And a program that cites the wrong statute loses the room the moment someone who knows checks. If the legal basis is wrong, everything else in the presentation is now in question.
What Adi's Act is genuinely useful for
It is the hook. A district already required to have a suicide prevention plan, which must address exactly the populations in Unit 8, is a district with a place to put universal screening, a named owner, and a reason to be having the conversation.
Use it as the door, not the authority.
✓ Take Action. Find your district's Adi's Act plan. Read the postvention section and the high-risk groups section. If you cannot locate it in fifteen minutes, that is the finding, and the person who owns the plan needs to know. See Module 11.1.
