About HELP - Healthy Education for Life Program

The goal of HeartLine's Youth Suicide Awareness and Prevention Program HELP is to help break the taboo that surrounds suicide and which makes it difficult to prevent. The Healthy Education for Life Program (HELP) seminar is as valuable to parents, teachers and counselors as it is to youth.

There are two main teaching tools of the HELP Program.  A 12-minute video which shows the wrong way and the correct way for intervention can be viewed by clicking on the link below, and trained facilitators focus on classroom discussion, making sure that the students understand the program's message of Ask, Listen and Tell. 

The HELP checklist is a 9-question screening tool that reinforces the information students receive regarding suicide and depression and helps identify students who are currently at risk for suicide or who are feeling depressed.  The checklists of students who have identified as at-risk are then given to school counselors for follow up.

This simple combination of education, a three-step action plan and self-identification can help save a young person’s life.

To schedule a presentation with your youth group, school, or staff, please contact Sherry Crosthwait at (405) 840-9396.

To view the youth suicide prevention video, click here.

Volunteers Needed!  For information on spring training, click here. 

HELP Receives Community Support

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HeartLine's HELP Program receives the 2006 Education & Awareness Award from Blue Cross BCBSBest.jpgBlue Shield of Oklahoma.  Click here to view the awards presentation video.

 

Pictured from Left:  President Tim Reardon, President-Elect Sean O'Connell, Esq., Executive Director Pam Cross, Director of Suicide Prevention Outreach Programs Sherry Crosthwait, Development Director Kelly Bishop, and Board Member and HELP Facilitator Mark Thompson. 

 

 

Eric & Sherry 3.jpgHeartLine HELP Volunteer Eric Smith receives the 2006 Clyde Benn Service to Youth Award from Youth Leadership Exchange of Oklahoma City.   HeartLine's Rich Rudebock also received this special award for the youth suicide prevention program in 2002.