Causes: Hot Lines & Crisis Intervention, Mental Health, Suicide Prevention
Mission: The Kristin Brooks Hope Center is a non-profit organization dedicated to suicide prevention, intervention and healing: by providing a single point of entry to community-based crisis services through innovative telephony and internet-based technologies; by bringing national attention and access to services for postpartum depression and other womens' mood disorders; through education and advocacy; through formal research and evaluation of crisis line services; and, by championing the need for national funding for community-based suicide prevention crisis services.
Results: Since 1998, Kristin Brooks Hope Center has been a champion in launching life-saving suicide prevention programs. After building 1-800-SUICIDE, the first-ever network of crisis centers in the US, and helping millions of callers connect to help and hope, KBHC tackled the next big challenge by launching the first online crisis center, IMALIVE. org, where volunteers from around the world could get trained in crisis intervention and answer online chats from people looking for support online. Since the launch of IMALIVE. org in 2011, IMAlive Volunteers from over 40 different countries took a 10-hour crisis intervention training course and over 30 hours of additional training to be able to support people considering suicide. IMALIVE Volunteers are answering pleas for help, every day, from all corners of the world. Alive! Mental Health Fair was created in 2010 to combat growing suicide rates among college students. This interactive and educational program has been invited to over 200 campuses across the US, including Purdue University, VCU, Colorado State University, Florida State University, Cleveland State University, and dozens of others. This program helped thousands of college students learn more about mental health, how to get help and support for their depression, anxiety, or other mental illness, and how to support a friend struggling with thoughts of suicide. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, a virtual program "Healthy Mind Games" has been helping connect isolated college students struggling in silence to other students, caring college staff, and available counseling resources on their campus.
Target demographics: people struggling with depression, anxiety, suicidal thoughts
Direct beneficiaries per year: In 2020, IMALIVE Volunteers responded to 21,874 chats and 6,956 emails from suicidal people considering ending their lives
Geographic areas served: Worldwide
Programs: IMALIVE. org, the world's first virtual crisis center, which allows volunteers from all over the world to get trained and provide emotional support and crisis intervention to people in a suicidal crisis //Alive! Mental Health Fair, a fun and interactive college suicide prevention and awareness program, which helps students connect with local mental health counselors // Healthy Mind Games - a virtual, interactive college program aimed at allowing students to openly talk about mental health and suicide.
Mission: The Kristin Brooks Hope Center is a non-profit organization dedicated to suicide prevention, intervention and healing: by providing a single point of entry to community-based crisis services through innovative telephony and internet-based technologies; by bringing national attention and access to services for postpartum depression and other womens' mood disorders; through education and advocacy; through formal research and evaluation of crisis line services; and, by championing the need for national funding for community-based suicide prevention crisis services.
Results: Since 1998, Kristin Brooks Hope Center has been a champion in launching life-saving suicide prevention programs. After building 1-800-SUICIDE, the first-ever network of crisis centers in the US, and helping millions of callers connect to help and hope, KBHC tackled the next big challenge by launching the first online crisis center, IMALIVE. org, where volunteers from around the world could get trained in crisis intervention and answer online chats from people looking for support online. Since the launch of IMALIVE. org in 2011, IMAlive Volunteers from over 40 different countries took a 10-hour crisis intervention training course and over 30 hours of additional training to be able to support people considering suicide. IMALIVE Volunteers are answering pleas for help, every day, from all corners of the world. Alive! Mental Health Fair was created in 2010 to combat growing suicide rates among college students. This interactive and educational program has been invited to over 200 campuses across the US, including Purdue University, VCU, Colorado State University, Florida State University, Cleveland State University, and dozens of others. This program helped thousands of college students learn more about mental health, how to get help and support for their depression, anxiety, or other mental illness, and how to support a friend struggling with thoughts of suicide. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, a virtual program "Healthy Mind Games" has been helping connect isolated college students struggling in silence to other students, caring college staff, and available counseling resources on their campus.
Target demographics: people struggling with depression, anxiety, suicidal thoughts
Direct beneficiaries per year: In 2020, IMALIVE Volunteers responded to 21,874 chats and 6,956 emails from suicidal people considering ending their lives
Geographic areas served: Worldwide
Programs: IMALIVE. org, the world's first virtual crisis center, which allows volunteers from all over the world to get trained and provide emotional support and crisis intervention to people in a suicidal crisis //Alive! Mental Health Fair, a fun and interactive college suicide prevention and awareness program, which helps students connect with local mental health counselors // Healthy Mind Games - a virtual, interactive college program aimed at allowing students to openly talk about mental health and suicide.
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