Suicide Prevention &
Parent Resources
These are NON-ACADEMIC supports for students.
Support services for mental health, behavioral health, LGBTQ support, substance abuse, outpatient services, homeless services, and more!
For ACADEMIC supports, see "Academic Assistance and Credit Recovery" on the home page.
Teen Hacks for Mental Health
Anxiety and Stress
Emotional Health
Social Health
Trauma
Promoting Mental Health and Resilience - Schoolwide
Students attended a presentation from our school psychologist, Dr. Victoria Hatton, on September 14 and 16 through their Social Studies classes. Students learned about what it takes to RISE (Resilience, Integrity, Support, and Excellence) in correlation to mental health. Dr. Hatton also went over the SafeUT App and the resources that are available to students here at the school.
2022-2023 Promoting Mental Health and Resilience.pptxResources.pdfResources (Spanish).pdfSafeUT Crisis Line
If you are concerned about the safety of your student, their friends, yourself, or others, please use the SafeUT Crisis Line to send a tip.
Suicide Prevention & Alliances
Reach Out for Help!
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline provides 24/7, free and confidential support for people in distress, prevention and crisis resources for you or your loved ones.
Call: 1-800-273-TALK
Mayo Clinic Patient Intervention Video - Common warning signs and what to say to a teen who may be contemplating suicide. Call: 1-800-273-TALK
The Awkward Silence - Friendship & Mental Health Video - Reach out to a friend who might be struggling with their mental health.
Utah Suicide Prevention Coalition - Your life is worth living. If you need someone to lean on for emotional support, call or chat anytime of the day.
Call 1-800-273-8255. Lifeline Chat is available 24/7.
QPR Institute. Question. Persuade. Refer. Our mission is to reduce suicidal behaviors and save lives by providing innovative, practical and proven suicide prevention training.
Hope 4 Utah - It takes a village to raise a child, and in the case of youth suicide, it takes an entire community to save one.
Community Resources
Mental Health, Behavioral Health, Substance Abuse, Homeless Services, Domestic Violence & Abuse
UNI Mobile Crisis Outreach Team: 801-587-3000
UNI Mobile Crisis Outreach Team provides a free, prompt, face-to-face response to any resident of Salt Lake County who is experiencing a behavioral health crisis.
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-TALK (8255)
The Lifeline provides 24/7, free and confidential support for people in distress, prevention and crisis resources for you or your loved ones, and best practices for professionals.
Utah Suicide Prevention Coalition: 1-800-273-TALK (8255). Lifeline Chat is available 24/7.
Access to intervention, safety planning, and support groups.
United Way of Utah Community Resource Line: 211
By simply dialing 2-1-1, callers can connect to services: mental health, addiction, food boxes, domestic violence/abuse, supportive housing.
Trevor Lifeline: 1-866-488-7386
The Trevor Project provides support to LGBTQ young people 24/7.
Encircle: (801) 610-6720
Encircle seeks to deepen and enrich the conversation among communities of faith and LGBTQ+ people. By teaching individuals to love themselves and empowering families, Encircle helps cultivate an environment where LGBTQ+ individuals can thrive.
Valley Behavioral Health: 801-270-6550
Access to support services for mental health, substance abuse, behavioral health, homeless services, outpatient services, and other programs.
Salt Lake County Youth Services: 385-468-4500
Providing children, youth, and families in crisis with immediate safety, shelter, and support.
Family Counseling Center: 801-261-3500
Areas of service for trauma, grief and loss, LGBTQ and affirmative therapy, addiction, domestic violence, and mental health disorders.
Granite Crisis Intervention Team: 385-646-4645
Granite School District’s Crisis Team is a secondary resource for schools/sites in the event of a student or employee death, tragedy, etc.
suicide_prevention_brochure_05112018.pdfResiliency
What is Resilience? video - Being resilient may help lessen the impact of mental health conditions and help you recognize when you need some help and support. Five steps for building resilience from psychological health expert, Dr. Mark Winwood.
Resilience in Kids - How to Thrive video - When we are more resilient, good things can happen!
Resilience: Our Nation’s Great Social Justice Issue for Kids - Juvenile Justice Information Exchange, May 2016
Positive Messaging
A Pep Talk from Kid President to You video - We all need a little encouragement every now and then. Kid President, knowing this, has put together a video you can play each morning as you wake up or to share with your friend who needs a kick in the right direction.
If you've never failed, you've never lived - Motivational video - Michael Jordan, cut from the high school basketball team? Walt Disney, fired from a newspaper because he lacked original ideas? The Beatles, turned down from a recording studio?
Solutions are closer than you think video - When a student doesn't have food to eat at lunch, students share some of their lunch.
#YouCanLearnAnything Khan Academy video - Most people are held back not by their innate ability, but by their mindset. They think intelligence is fixed, but it isn’t. Your brain is like a muscle. The more you use it and struggle, the more it grows.
Appropriate Technology Use
iGen: NPR Book Review - Analyzes how the young people born in the mid-1990s and later significantly differ from those of previous generations, examining how social media and texting may be behind today's unprecedented levels of anxiety, depression, and loneliness.
Our Children and the Dangers of Social Media - Intermountain Healthcare Nurse Dani and Collin Kartchner discuss his campaign to educate parents on how social media/smart phone usage among our children is at the root of the current epidemic rise in teen anxiety, depression, bullying and suicide.
Know What's on Your Child's Phone - A parent's guide to apps, basic internet and smartphone safety, acronyms and slang terminology, and resources. Spanish version available here
Apps (Online) smart phone information for parents--English.pdfCreating Relationships and Limits with Children
How to raise successful kids without over-parenting - TED talk - By loading kids with high expectations and micromanaging their lives at every turn, parents aren't actually helping. At least, that's how Julie Lythcott-Haims sees it. With passion and wry humor, the former Dean of Freshmen at Stanford makes the case for parents to stop defining their children's success via grades and test scores. Instead, she says, they should focus on providing the oldest idea of all: unconditional love.
Every Kid is One Caring Adult Away From Being a Success Story - Josh Shipp has created a free video training series to help parents understand and influence teens
How to talk (and listen) to your children - TED talk - Child psychologist Shelja Sen offers a new take on family communication, asking us to consider the effects our words have on our children -- and showing a new model for helping kids solve their own problems. (In Hindi with English subtitles)
The Power of Vulnerability - TED talk - Brené Brown studies human connection -- our ability to empathize, belong, love. In a poignant, funny talk, she shares a deep insight from her research, one that sent her on a personal quest to know herself as well as to understand humanity.
Mindfulness and Perfectionism
Why Aren't We Teaching You Mindfulness - TED talk - In this powerful talk, AnneMarie Rossi, the founder and director of Be Mindful, shares her research into how mindfulness can set us up for success and break cycles of transgenerational trauma.
The Alarming New Research on Perfectionism - The Cut - The impossibly high standards perfectionists set for themselves often mean that they’re not happy even when they’ve achieved success. And research has suggested that anxiety over making mistakes may ultimately be holding some perfectionists back from ever achieving success in the first place.
The Dangers of Perfectionism and Tips to Manage Perfectionist Tendencies - This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by the Davidson Institute for Talent Development. It provides a number of excellent strategies regarding a parent's approach to their child's perfectionism.
Colleges' message to ease student stress: Failure is normal - Bentley University, a private business school near Boston, joins a growing number of U.S. colleges trying to ease students' anxieties around failure and teach them to cope with it.
Sleep and Sleep Disorders
Tips to Improve Sleep Health - Center for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) - Recommended Hours of Sleep per Day (8-10 hours per 24 hour period for teens ages 13-18) and Tips to Improve Sleep (removal of electronic devices from bedroom).
Resources for Bullying and Child Abuse
Prevent Child Abuse Utah - The mission of Prevent Child Abuse Utah is to forge and guide a community commitment to prevent child abuse in all forms through programs, services, public awareness, education, public policy development and system partner collaboration.
If you suspect child abuse or neglect is happening, please call the Utah Child Abuse Hotline at (855) 323-3237. If you or someone else is in immediate danger, call 911.
Stop Bullying - Bullying can happen in any number of places, contexts, or locations. StopBullying.gov provides resources including prevention, warning signs, effects of bullying, what teens can do, and more.
Bullying - types of bullying, where and when it happens, warning signs, who is at risk
Cyberbullying - digital awareness, social media, gaming, prevention