Suncoast Yellow Ribbon Project

If you or someone you know is in immediate danger of taking their life please call 800-273-8255 (the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline) or call 911 immediately. The hotline is an anonymous phone line that is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Other things you should do:

• Remove the means in which they may use to harm themselves
• Get immediate help from a trusted adult, mental health provider or school counselor immediately
• Talk to them... Say: ” Are you thinking about killing yourself”? If they say yes, get them help as soon as possible
• Stay with them
• Tell them that you care and that you are going to stay with them until they get help and stay with them until help arrives
• Let them talk if they want to. Listen, really listen to what they say... take them seriously
• Keep giving them support after they have gotten help. You can do this just by telling them you care and sending them texts of encouragement or giving them a hug. This is when they need to feel accepted, that someone cares and there is hope for them
• Stick up for them if someone is rejecting or bullying them

Providing counseling and referrals for:

• Drug Treatment
• Shelters
• Counseling Services
• Pregnancy
• Sexual Assault
• Suicide
• Child Abuse

This line operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.