Resources
Become a fan of the You-Are-Loved Chalk Message Project on Facebook
Read about our other campaign: Dreams Untitled Project
A list of suicide-prevention organizations and LGBTQ youth resources:
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-TALK
Active Minds
Website: http://activeminds.org
Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/yh7x3w9
Twitter: @active_minds
From website: Active Minds is the only organization working to utilize the student voice to change the conversation about mental health on college campuses. By developing and supporting chapters of a student-run mental health awareness, education, and advocacy group on campuses, the organization works to increase students’ awareness of mental health issues, provide information and resources regarding mental health and mental illness, encourage students to seek help as soon as it is needed, and serve as liaison between students and the mental health community.
Send Silence Packing Campaign (from website): Send Silence Packing is an exhibit of 1,100 backpacks representing the number of college student lives lost to suicide each year. Active Minds Inc. has collected and continues to collect backpacks and personal stories in memory or in honor of loved ones impacted by suicide. By displaying backpacks with personal stories of loved ones that put a ‘face’ to lives lost to suicide, Send Silence Packing carries the message that preventing suicide is not just about lowering statistics, but also about saving the lives of students, daughters, sons, brothers, sisters and friends across the nation. Contributions serve as a meaningful outlet for survivors’ grief as well as a powerful way to raise awareness and work towards suicide prevention.
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
Website: http://afsp.org
Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/ykocnxl
Twitter: @afspnational
From website: The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) is the leading national not-for-profit organization exclusively dedicated to understanding and preventing suicide through research, education and advocacy, and to reaching out to people with mental disorders and those impacted by suicide.
GLSEN
Website: http://glsen.org
Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/ygnn4t5
Twitter: @glsen
From Facebook: GLSEN, or the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, is a national education organization working to ensure safe schools for ALL students, regardless of sexual orientation and gender identity.
Jed Foundation
Website: http://jedfoundation.com
Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/ye2zgzw
Twitter: @jedfoundation
From website: The Jed Foundation works nationally to reduce the rate of suicide and the prevalence of emotional distress among college and university students. To achieve this end, the organization collaborates with the public and leaders in higher education, mental health, and research to produce and advance initiatives that:
• Decrease the stigma surrounding emotional disorders and increase help-seeking in the college student population
• Increase understanding of the warning signs of suicide and the symptoms of emotional disorders among college students
• Build awareness of the prevalence of suicide and emotional disorders among college students
• Strengthen campus mental health services, policies, and programs
Matthew Shepard Foundation
Website: http://matthewshepard.org
Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/ygg3klo
Twitter: @msferasehatenow
From Facebook: The Matthew Shepard Foundation was founded by Dennis and Judy Shepard in memory of their 21-year old son, Matthew, who was murdered in an anti-gay hate crime in Wyoming in October 1998.
Created to honor Matthew in a manner that was appropriate to his dreams, beliefs and aspirations, the Foundation seeks to “Replace Hate with Understanding, Compassion & Acceptance” through its varied educational, outreach and advocacy programs and by continuing to tell Matthew’s story.
The Foundation focuses on three primary areas: Erasing Hate in our society, putting GLBT Youth First and ensuring Equality for all GLBT Americans.
To Write Love on Her Arms
Website: http://twloha.com
Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/yhfa4xm
Twitter: @twloha
From website: To Write Love on Her Arms is a non-profit movement dedicated to presenting hope and finding help for people struggling with depression, addiction, self-injury and suicide. TWLOHA exists to encourage, inform, inspire and also to invest directly into treatment and recovery.
Trevor Project:
Website: http://thetrevorproject.org
Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/y9e74ld
Twitter: @trevorproject
LGBTQ Youth Trevor Helpline: 866-4-U-Trevor
From website: The Trevor Project is the leading national organization focused on crisis and suicide prevention efforts among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) youth.
The Trevor Project operates the only accredited, nationwide, around-the-clock crisis and suicide prevention helpline for LGBTQ youth. If you or a friend are feeling lost or alone, call The Trevor Helpline. There is hope, there is help.
