Suicide Prevention

The 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline is a national network of local crisis centers that provides free and confidential emotional support to people in suicidal crisis or emotional distress 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

https://988lifeline.org/

SafeUT answers crisis calls, and chats—about yourself or someone else—24/7. These free services, provided by University of Utah Health, are confidential. Their counseling topics include:

Depression, anxiety, or other mental health issues;
Suicide prevention;
Loss and grief;
Bullying and cyberbullying;
Drug and alcohol problems;
Self-harm;
Relationship difficulties;
Any life challenge.

SafeUT is free and confidential.

If an “active rescue” is necessary – meaning their crisis counselor believes the user is in immediate danger – the counselor will alert emergency services to attempt a face-to-face safety evaluation based on the information provided by the user.

SafeFam

Is your child facing a challenge? Stabilization and Mobile Response (SMR) services can help. We work with you and your family to create a plan that fits your needs.

Mobile Response Services provided to you in your home to ease an immediate challenge and provide support.

Minimize the impact of the challenge on you and your family
Create safety plans
Connect you and your family to other helpful resources

Stabilization Services, short-term services, may be provided in addition to mobile response to help ensure your family's long-term success.

Teach skills to improve family functioning
Create plans that prepare you for and prevent future challenges
Prevent the need for ot-of-home services
Equip you with ongoing resources and support

Live On is a statewide effort to prevent suicide by promoting education, providing resources, and changing our culture around suicide and mental health. Their website can help you find support groups, understand the warning signs of suicide, and find local crisis support.

MY3 is for individuals who may be having thoughts of suicide, or who have a history of suicidal behavior. It is designed to help these individuals stay safe during when they are experiencing thoughts of suicide. MY3 helps individuals develop a safety plan for themselves. A safety plan is a written list of prioritized coping strategies and sources of support for people who are at high risk for suicide.

Hope Squad Family Mental Health Lessons

Hope Squad is a peer-to-peer suicide prevention program. Hope Squad members are nominated by their classmates as trustworthy peers and trained by advisors. The program reduces youth suicide through education, training, and peer intervention.

Download the app today! The VHB contains simple tools to help individuals with coping, relaxation, distraction, and positive thinking. Individuals can use the VHB to store a variety of rich multimedia

content that they find personally supportive in times of need. For example, an individual can include family photos, videos and recorded messages from loved ones, inspirational quotes, music they find especially soothing, reminders of previous successes, positive life experiences and future aspirations, and affirmations of their worth in their VHB. Finally, the VHB provides the individual with positive activity planning, distraction tools, and interactive relaxation exercises including guided imagery, controlled breathing and muscle relaxation.