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Connection is the common thread. Prevent suicide. Linking people to others in their community or to services can create connections that help prevent #suicide. Help CDC reach their vision of no lives lost to suicide: bit.ly/3oSaXFz #BeThe1To #BeThere #SPM23

September 22, 2025 at 7:42 PM Everybody can reply

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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them)

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I hadn't run into the 5 steps framework at any of the times I responded, but it's a fairly simple framework to help:

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How The 5 Steps Can Help Someone Who is Suicidal - #BeThe1To

En Español The five action steps for communicating with someone who may be suicidal are supported by evidence in the field of suicide prevention. Ask How – Asking the question “Are you thinking about ...

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August 27, 2025 at 4:15 AM Everybody can reply

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Social Work Podcast

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The latest The Social Work Podcast Daily! https://paper.li/socworkpodcast?edition_id=39350bd0-d40a-11e9-85a7-002590a5ba2d Thanks to @_allisulli @JoeFeagin @UniteSurvivors #wspd19 #bethe1to

December 6, 2024 at 12:58 AM Everybody can reply

Allen Tien, MD, MHS mdlogix.com 94,698 田一彦

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https://www.linkedin.com/posts/allentien_suicideprevention-suicide-bethe1to-activity-6842071197077897216-we4O

Allen Tien, MD, MHS posted on LinkedIn

Allen Tien, MD, MHS posted images on LinkedIn

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January 8, 2025 at 4:45 AM Everybody can reply

Kindness Champions

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Kindness Champions be the one to🥰
We Love You❤️
#StrongerTogether💪🏼💪🏿💪🏾💪🏻💪🏽
#Ubuntu🌻
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June 24, 2025 at 10:31 AM Everybody can reply

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Kindness Champions

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"Life's persistent and most urgent question is 'What are you doing for others.'" Martin Luther King Jr.

When you help and give to others it makes a difference in their life and yours too🥰 ##kindness ##helping ##giving ##bethe1to ##kindnesschampion ##ubuntu❤️

Thanks ##greatmindsunited.com.au😊

December 17, 2024 at 12:31 AM Everybody can reply

Meghan L. Reitz & Assoc., LLC

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Resource time! Refer back to this if you or someone you know needs some support.
#counselorshelp #burnbrightnotout #mentalhealthmatters #mentalhealthawareness #tools2thrive #bethe1to #be4stage4 #4mind4body #mlracounseling #schaumburgcounselor #rivernorthcounselor #counselingawarenessmonth

April 28, 2025 at 2:53 AM Everybody can reply

Penny America (changed my name so the gummint leaves me alone)

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So this is a cool thing that happened

A photograph of Penny, a tall, older trans women wearing an altered tee shirt with a pride-colored hart and the handwritten words #Bethe1to under it, and #988 drawn in bold colors above and to the left. Over the tee shirt is a blue denim jacket with colorful pins all over the front. She wears green-framed eyeglasses and large earring is the shape of a heart with multicolored concentric hearts behind it. She stands in a modern conference room. Sitting on the table, smiling at the camera, is a bald, smiling white man in a black 988 tee shirt and khakis. THIS IS THE FIRST PART OF THE TEXT ON THE NEXT PAGE:

Lived Experience of 988 Front-Line Staff
GFL has operated the 211/LIFE LINE hotline program since 2005, handling crisis calls along with inquiries related to food insecurity, disaster response, housing instability, senior services, and similar matters, so it was well-prepared for the new challenges. Two years ago, when the US launched the 3-digit dialing code 988 (previously known as National Suicide Prevention Lifeline), GFL was well positioned to take on this new challenge and expansion of crisis and suicide prevention hotline work.
GFL quickly scaled up to answer more 988 calls, texts, and chats so that our 211 front-line staff can continue to address nonemergency needs while the 988 staff handle contacts related to suicide and mental health crises. Currently the combined 211 and 988 teams-80 staff in all-serve nine counties: Monroe, Wayne, Seneca, Ontario, Livingston, Cayuga, Schuyler, Steuben, and Yates. On its own, our GFL 988 team receives approximately 1,200 calls and 1,000 chats or texts monthly. Nationally, a key reason for creating the 988 system was to reduce the use of 911 for mental health crises, as that often triggers a law enforcement response.

(continued from previous alt) This year under 2% of 988 contacts have resulted in a 911 call.
Penny Sterling, Life Line Crisis Chat & Text Counselor, finds her work informed by many life experiences, including being a parent, serving as a 12-step sponsor, becoming physically disabled, and transitioning to live as a transgender woman. From lived experience, she understands what it's like to be in deeply painful situations, and what it's like to survive, grow, and go on to thrive. When someone contacts 988, she can authentically validate their experience. As Penny puts it, "I know what it's like to have a very, very, hard time and then have somebody discount it." But she can also tell people in distress, with conviction, that the possibility of joy and connection lies on the other side of a crisis. She says, "I can't think of a mistake you cannot recover from—except ending your life."
This is difficult work. Typically, a Crisis Counselor responds to a stranger at a very intense, painful moment in that person's life. For that moment, "there is nothing else in the world except the person you are talking to," says the 988 team's supervisor, Andrew Conley. As Penny Sterling describes it, "we have to listen actively, with our whole heart and whole soul." Then the contact is over, and in most cases, in Penny's words, "You don't know how the story ends." A big part of Andrew's job as NYS Lifeline Crisis Chat and Text Supervisor at GFL, is to attend to the wellbeing of his team. From his own lived experience as a person with a mental illness, he has developed healthy strategies for processing the workday, including connecting with his community and getting out in nature. Penny takes long bike rides to relax.
Both of them take enormous satisfaction and pride in their work. It's not every job that gives you the opportunity to change lives every day. Andrew describes it as "having my work aligned with my values," adding, "I can't imagine it any other way."

December 13, 2024 at 2:38 AM Everybody can reply

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Kindness Champions

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"Let's normalize need support and start calling it shared strength." Titilayo Tinubu Ali

Hey supportive people🥰

If someone you know is going through tough times there are actions you can take to show your support to them💞

Thanks #ayo.ogundipe😊
#support #bethe1to #ubuntu❤️

September 17, 2025 at 10:31 PM Everybody can reply

Meghan L. Reitz & Assoc., LLC

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A great way to start off July! 🥗🥣🥖🍝🍪🥪
#counselorshelp #burnbrightnotout #mentalhealthmatters #counselorshelp #mentalhealthawareness #tools2thrive #bethe1to #be4stage4 #schaumburg #chicago #rivernorth
#mlra #mlracounseling #rivernorthcounselor #groupsupervision #cornerbakery

July 4, 2025 at 1:52 AM Everybody can reply

Meghan L. Reitz & Assoc., LLC

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I’m worth it. Really. 😬
#counselorshelp #burnbrightnotout #mentalhealthmatters #counselorshelp #mentalhealthawareness #tools2thrive #bethe1to #be4stage4 #schaumburg #chicago #rivernorth
#mlra #mlracounseling #rivernorthcounselor #insurance #managedcare #insurancerates

July 9, 2025 at 5:32 AM Everybody can reply

Duke Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences

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September is #SuicidePreventionMonth. Many people find it difficult to talk to someone who may be having thoughts of suicide, but there are clear evidence-based actions we can take. Learn 5 steps for helping someone who might be suicidal: www.bethe1to.com/bethe1to-ste...
#BeThe1To

Two women sitting near water talking and looking serious, one touching the other's shoulder. National Suicide Prevention Month ribbon.

September 2, 2025 at 1:47 PM Everybody can reply

Meghan L. Reitz & Assoc., LLC

@mlracounseling.bsky.social

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain - #DollyParton 🌧️🌈 #counselorshelp #burnbrightnotout #mentalhealthmatters #mentalhealthawareness #tools2thrive #bethe1to #be4stage4 #schaumburg #4mind4body #chicago
#mlra #mlracounseling

January 16, 2025 at 7:37 AM Everybody can reply

Kindness Champions

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"The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others." Gandhi

G'day fabulous people🥳

Being useful and helpful is something we can do everyday making the world kinder and happier for all of us🥰
##kindness ##useful ##helpful ##bethe1to ##love ##ubuntu❤️

January 22, 2025 at 1:13 AM Everybody can reply

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Kindness Champions

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"Aw, kindness. What a simple way to tell another struggling soul that there is love to be found in the world," A.A. Malee

The nonprofit Wildly Kind asked people in Denver CO to share messages of #kindness & #hope with "A Call for Kindness."

Here are some of the messages🥰
#bethe1to #ubuntu❤️

June 29, 2025 at 8:13 PM Everybody can reply

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Meghan L. Reitz & Assoc., LLC

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We drink copious amounts of room temperature coffee…. #coping 🔥 ☕️
#counselorshelp #burnbrightnotout #mentalhealthmatters #counselorshelp #mentalhealthawareness #tools2thrive #bethe1to #be4stage4 #mlracounseling #dumpsterfire #selfcare #emotionalsupportcoffee #backstreetboys

July 25, 2025 at 2:03 AM Everybody can reply

Kindness Champions

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"Try this single act to transform hate into harmony."

Kindness🥰

One person can foster harmony, compassion, and joy by doing a single act of kindness🌟 #kindness #bethe1to #thereisgood❤️

Thanks #PsychologyToday😊 www.psychologytoday.com/us/...

October 19, 2025 at 9:31 AM Everybody can reply

Kindness Champions

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"Build people up instead of tearing them down, appreciate them instead of taking them for granted, and be kind instead. Let’s focus on compassion & love & make the world a better place." Rubyanne

Let's sprinkle #compliments like confetti🎉

Thanks #ohhappydani😊
#bethe1to #kindness❤️

May 12, 2025 at 5:13 PM Everybody can reply

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Hanley Foundation

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Join us for our virtual QPR Gatekeeper Training on January 24 from 12 to 1:15 pm ET. During this free training, you will learn how to recognize the warning signs of a suicide crisis and how to help. Register at hanley.info/qpr.
#SuicidePrevention #BeThe1To

QPR Gatekeeper Training

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January 21, 2025 at 4:00 PM Everybody can reply

Meghan L. Reitz & Assoc., LLC

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🌳 Use this when you find yourself making assumptions or worrying about things that may or may not be logical or realistic. 🌲

Credit: Butler & Hope (2007)

#CBT #CognitiveBehavioralTherapy
#counselorshelp #burnbrightnotout #mentalhealthmatters #tools2thrive #bethe1to #be4stage4 #4mind4body #worry

February 22, 2025 at 8:53 AM Everybody can reply

Kindness Champions

@kindnesschampions.bsky.social

Kindness Champions you can do something🥰
We Love You❤️
#StrongerTogether💪🏽💪🏿💪🏾💪🏻💪🏼
#Ubuntu🌻
#BeThe1To🌟
#ChrisAnderson✨

August 26, 2025 at 10:31 AM Everybody can reply

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Kindness Champions

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"Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world." Desmond Tutu

Love this post on Nextdoor in Rochester NY by Marilyn🥰

Acts of kindness & positivity make a difference🥳
#kindness #positivity #bethe1to #ubuntu❤️

September 2, 2025 at 11:14 PM Everybody can reply

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F. Ted Atchley

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As #SuicidePreventionMonth comes to an end, remember that you can always #BeThe1To help someone else.

Here are the 5 ways to help someone who may be experiencing a suicidal crisis. bethe1to.com

#SPM23

September 29, 2023 at 1:59 PM Everybody can reply

Kindness Champions

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One person can make a difference🥰

Erin Clemens wanted to find a way to make someone's day so began leaving handwritten index cards packed with positive messages around northern Kentucky💌 #bethe1to #kindnesschampion #kindness #thereisgood❤️

Thanks #WCPO😊 www.wcpo.com/news/local-new...

July 16, 2025 at 9:31 AM Everybody can reply

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