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Youth Suicide Prevention Program
Prevention Works!
January 2013
For Immediate Help:

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
1-800-273-TALK
(1-800-273-8255)

GLBTQ Helpline
1-866-4-U-TREVOR
(1-866-488-7386)
Upcoming Trainings

ASIST - Pasco, WA
January 28-29, 2013

ASIST - Seattle, WA
March 6-7, 2013

ASIST - Vancouver, WA
May 15-16, 2013 
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YSPP's 5th Annual Auction  
April 18, 2013



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Youth Suicide Prevention Program
444 NE Ravenna Blvd, Suite 103
Seattle, WA 98115
206.297.5922
 
Peer-to-Peer Model Successful 

 

Surveys show that a peer-to-peer model increases the comfort level youths have in talking about their personal problems and their mental health.

At a high school in Palo Alto, positive mental health messages were disseminated from student to students. After hearing these messages,  90% of students reported that they now felt comfortable talking with someone outside of their family or school about their personal problems, and 95% of students reported that they could now discuss their problems with a member of their family.

Resource: Disaster Distress Helpline  

 

The Sandy Hook shootings brought out many emotions in us--grief, anger, heartbreak. The incident propelled the issues of school safety, gun control, and mental illness and treatment in the U.S. But while the experts debated, many of us were just trying to get through our own emotions.

 

The Disaster Distress Helpline, sponsored  by SAMHSA, is a 24-hours-a-day, 7-days-a-week national hotline that provides disaster crisis counseling. Whether it's a natural or human disaster, whether it's big or small, if you feel you need counseling to deal with an event, please call 1-800-985-5990. The call is free, confidential, and multilingual.

 

Seattle Foundation, Pride Foundation, and The Peg & Rick Young Foundation Help Strengthen Suicide Prevention 

YSPP is proud to announce receipt of grants from the following funders:

The Seattle Foundation
$10,000 for general operating fund

Pride Foundation
$4,200 for our LGBTQ work in Eastern Washington

The Peg & Rick Young Foundation
$1,000 for general operating funds

Thank you for your generosity and commitment to youth.

We also want to thank everyone who gave to our Annual Appeal and who supported us in 2012. You've helped provide trainings and information that helps youth.