Hope Squad is a peer-to-peer suicide prevention program serving 3rd-12th grade throughout the entire North Kansas City school district (32 schools!) and three elementary schools in the Smithville school district. Hope Squad members are nominated by their classmates as trustworthy peers and trained by advisors. The program reduces youth suicide through education, training, and peer [...]
Saturday, July 16, 2022 was the official launch of a new hotline to help people nationwide get the mental health services they need when in a crisis. Similar to 911, 988 is designed for people to call when they need mental health help specifically. Of course, people will still be able to call Tri-County Mental [...]
In an article we were reading recently about depression and the pandemic, we noticed the importance of “check-in calls.” Dr. Gary Sachs, from the Harvard Medical School, noted that not only are check-in phone calls helpful for those who receive them, they also help the people making the calls. After making a call, the caller [...]
