Ask for Help is a PSA campaign that features empowering, first-person accounts of youth reaching out to friends, teachers, parents or counselors to promote the idea that it’s ok to ask for help when you need it. Through these diverse videos, Ask for Help helps reduce the stigma surrounding help-seeking behavior and directly refers LGBTQ […]
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Using Social Media in Child Welfare
Using social media techniques and innovations in child welfare practice is a relatively new approach for the field. While using social media as a practice tool offers opportunities to enhance, improve, and make work with children and families more effective, it also presents new challenges for the field. These pages offer information and resources on […]
Responding to a Cry for Help: Best Practices for Online Technologies
This report provides recommendations for the development of policies and resources that decrease suicide risk amongst users of online technologies. The recommendations are organized into basic, mid-level and advanced levels. Basic recommendations address providing help, policies for responding to suicide content, and referrals. Mid-level recommendations address guidelines, user reporting, partnerships, contextual messaging, and education. Advanced […]
Break Up With Tobacco: Campaign Aims to Reduce Smoking Among Gays, Lesbians and Bisexuals
The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health launched an unprecedented new anti-smoking campaign aimed at the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender population, who smoke at more than twice the rate of the heterosexual population in California. Centered around popular nightlife venues and gyms, the innovative “Break Up With Tobacco” campaign combines traditional and experiential […]
Social Networking Technologies as an Emerging Tool for HIV Prevention
A UCLA study published Sept. 3 in the peer-reviewed journal Annals of Internal Medicine demonstrates that an approach that combines behavioral science with social media and online communities can lead to improved health behaviors among men at risk of HIV infection. The evidence-based approach not only led to increased HIV testing and encouraged significant behavioral […]
YASP: Cafe Run by Young People Offers Mental Health Counselling
Young Adults Services and Projects (Yasp) cafe is a cafe and also a drop-in centre and resource for 15 to 25-year-olds. Situated on the busy main street in the Manchester suburb of Levenshulme, Yasp was created by Manchester Mind 12 years ago in response to the high suicide rate among Manchester’s young men and the low […]