Resources & Links

Get Involved

Continue to Share your Story

If you have posted your story to the Lifeline Gallery, thank you! Now you can keep on sharing by using the three options--email, get url, embed player--seen to the right of your story:

You can embed your avatar on your website or social networking profile, link to your url and email your story to friends.  All of these options will help to spread the word about the Lifeline Gallery and suicide prevention.

• Join the Lifeline Network on:
  • Facebook        MySpace        YouTube
• Volunteer at the Lifeline Gallery by contacting us at lifelinegallery@mhaofnyc.org
• Volunteer at a Lifeline Crisis Center
• Spread the Word about the Lifeline
• Join or start a local coalition
• Join the Suicide Prevention Action Network USA (SPAN USA):  A nonprofit organization dedicated to preventing suicide through public education and awareness, community action and federal, state and local grassroots advocacy.  SPAN USA is the nation's only suicide prevention organization dedicated to leveraging grassroots support among suicide survivors (those who have lost a loved one to suicide) and others to advance public policies that help prevent suicide.
  • SPAN USA’s Mission, Vision & Values
  • What You Can Do
  • Survivor Support
• Join Active Minds : the nation's only peer-to-peer organization dedicated to raising awareness about mental health among college students.  The organization serves as the young adult voice in mental health advocacy on over one hundred college campuses nationwide.
  • Join or start a local chapter

Get Suicide Prevention Information

• National Suicide Prevention Lifeline , 1-800-273-TALK (8255): a 24-hour, toll-free suicide prevention service available to anyone in emotional crisis.  By dialing 1-800-273-TALK (8255), the call will be routed to one of the 132 crisis centers in our national network.  Call for yourself, or someone you care about.  Your call is free and confidential.
  • Suicide Warning Signs
• Suicide Prevention Resource Center:  SPRC provides prevention support, training, and resources to assist organizations and individuals to develop suicide prevention programs, interventions and policies, and to advance the National Strategy for Suicide Prevention.
  • Suicide Prevention Basics:  Learn, get involved, start a program and support policies and funding
  • National and State-Specific News
• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration:  SAMHSA is the US Federal agency charged with improving the quality and availability of prevention, treatment, and rehabilitative services in order to reduce illness, death, disability, and cost to society resulting from substance abuse and mental illnesses.  SAMHSA is a branch of the United States Department of Health and Human Services.
  • SAMHSA’s National Mental Health Information Center  provides information about mental health via a toll-free telephone number (800-789-2647), their web site, and more than 600 publications.  Information Center staff members are skilled at listening and responding to questions from the public and professionals.  The staff quickly directs callers to Federal, State, and local organizations dedicated to treating and preventing mental illness.  The Information Center also has information on Federal grants, conferences, and other events.
• Veterans Mental Health:  The Department of Veterans Affairs' Office of Mental Health Services mission is to maintain and improve the health and well-being of veterans through excellence in health care, social services, education, and research.
  • Veterans Hotline - The Lifeline and the VA now serve U.S. Military Veterans and their friends & families.  Call 1-800-273-TALK and press "1" to be routed to the Veterans Hotline.

Support Lifeline Gallery Partners

• Active Minds donation info
• SPAN USA donation info