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PROJECT GOALS
ABOUT THE PROJECT
PROJECT IMPACT

Suicidal thoughts and behaviors (STB), defined as anything a person does intentionally that can cause injury to one’s self, including death (i.e., suicide attempt, suicide ideation, non-suicidal self-injury), is a significant public health issue. A growing number of STB prevention programs train adults and peers (termed “gatekeeper training”) to be more active bystanders– to try to help when they see someone who may be at risk for self-injury. Such programs have demonstrated positive changes in knowledge and attitudes about suicide, but have had less success in changing behaviors in real world settings and few focus on youth and young adults as bystanders.  A better understanding of the variables that promote successful STB prevention behaviors could inform more effective STB bystander actions.

Project Lift Up is a national longitudinal study of almost 5,000 youth and young adults across the United States. The project was designed to understand awareness of suicidal behavior among social networks, helping (“bystander”) behaviors, and personal impact overtime. Important contextual factors are also measured, including personal suicidal thoughts and behaviors, help-seeking, social and structural determinants of health, and personal strengths and resiliency. Survey data are supplemented with interviews with professionals in the fields of mental health and prevention, as well as with youth themselves about barriers that prevent and contexts that promote helping specific to suicidal thoughts and behaviors as well as recommendations related to prevention training.

Findings from Project Lift Up will identify ways to improve youth identification of and responses to persons at risk for suicidal thoughts and behaviors in ways that reduce personal risk for themselves and others. A better understanding of the impact of helping will enhance prevention efforts to teach and assess self-care and support for bystanders themselves.

 
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counselors & practioners

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LIFT LINES

Everybody needs a lift sometimes. some words of wisdom from peers to help lift you up.

To be loved is to be known: to be understood is to be witnessed.     /     
Everyone can master a grief but he that has it.     /     
We do it because we believe we have something to offer.      /     
I’ve tried so hard to do right.     /     
If speaking kindly to plants can help them grow, imagine what speaking kindly to humans can do.     /     
No matter how we choose to live, we both die at the end.     /     
Always remember that you are unique. Just like everyone else.     /     
We cannot control the world around us. We can only control our response to it.     /     
You are loved unconditionally and with an unchanging love.     /     
Treat every day like it’s the good old days, because you’re living them right now.     /     
People lie and say what you want to hear, but nature won’t. Nature is life in its purest form.     /     
Hold fast. Brave the storm.     /     
You must take care of yourself to be able to care of others.     /     
Keep hold of the small wins, the small joys, and use those as the steps to keep you going … “Collecting small things kept me going. Gotta stay to finish my collection. But in the process of making one collection, I found a new one and it kept going from there. It’s not a permanent fix, but it can at least help you until you are able to get help.      /     
You don’t need a grand reason to live. The small things usually outweigh the big.     /     
Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.     /     
It’s a marathon, not a race.     /     
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.     /     
At the end of the day it’s still you.     /     
Hating people is like burning your own home to get rid of a rat.     /     
We cannot control the world around us. We can only control our responses to it.     /     
Do it and do it horribly; it means just go for it and show up, life’s about showing up not perfect.     /     
Remember this: be kind to your mind. Kindness is beautiful. You got this.     /     
Celebrate every win no matter how small.     /     
Wait and hope.     /     
What a poor reason for refusing light, because the night is so dark.     /     
You have the courage to begin again.     /     
Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness.     /     
Be comforted deal soul! There is always light behind the clouds!      /     
Be patient with yourself. Healing takes time.     /     
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.     /     
Be gentle with yourself. You have the power to protect your peace.     /     
Work on yourself. For you yourself.     /     
Wake up everyday with that thought that something amazing is about to happen.     /     
Friends come and go but the ones that stay are family.     /     
     /     If you do what you love, you’ll never work a day in your life.
     /     Always look for the helpers, you will always find people who are helping.
     /     The sleeper must awaken.
     /     You are loved.
     /     It’s always darkest before the dawn or “Only in darkness can you see the stars.
     /     Do things at your own pace. Life is not a race.
     /     Take the time it takes to take less time.
     /     Treat every day like it’s the good old days.
     /     Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
     /     When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.
     /     The greatest glory in living lies not in the failing, but in the rising time when we fall.
     /     Birthdays tell how long you’ve been on the road, not how far you’ve traveled.
     /     I understand you; I care about you.
     /     Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has been a sign that you are alive.
     /     The idea is not to live forever, but to create something that will.
     /     Don’t use your energy to worry. Use your energy to create, grow, and heal.
     /     Success is the ability to leave failure behind without losing enthusiasm.
     /     Happiness often sneaks through the door you didn’t know you left open.
     /     In response to “You’re pointless simply say “Thirty-nine buried. Zero found.
     /     You are worthy of all the things you want, even the things that feel out of reach.
     /     The true way to be happy is to do something to add to the happiness of others.
     /     The poetry of earth is never dead.
     /     It is okay if all you do today is survive.
     /     You are not your mistakes. They are what you did. Not who you are.
     /     Aim for the moon and if you miss, land among the stars.
     /     I am patient. I am resilient. I am worthy. Today, I let go of things I cannot change.
     /     Keep your face towards the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you.
     /     I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
     /     If life doesn’t go right, go left. There’s always another path.
     /     Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.
     /     As long as you are breathing, you’ll grow. Everything heals, you just need time and hope.
     /     And this too shall pass.
     /     It’s natural to cry don’t let people make you feel otherwise.
     /     More love. Less hate.
     /     Be what you want others to be.
Don’t tell me the sky is the limit when there are footprints on the moon.     /     
Let it happen.      /     
The hard times are golden because they all lead to better days.      /     
It’s okay to prioritize yourself.     /     
Try to be a rainbow is someone else’s cloud.     /     
Your direction is more important than your speed.     /     
Bloom where you are planted.     /     
Love yourself the way you love others.     /     
Self-Care: refers to the practices that promote physical, mental, and emotional well-being, and enhance overall quality of life.     /     
Trust your intuition. If something feels right to you, it probably is right for you. Put yourself first.     /     
I know love exists because I exist, and I am full of it.     /     
There are too many flowers to smell and songs to listen to for me to stop going.     /     
Celebrate every win, no matter how small.     /     
Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.     /     
Good things take time.     /     
Balance is a process, not a definition.     /     
Sometimes you have to cut a little bit of yourself off, no matter how much it hurts, in order to grow.     /     
God help those who help themselves.     /     
Even on the darkest days the sun will shine again.     /     
Wake up every day with the thought that something amazing is about to happen.     /     
You have writers who write about crazy characters but that doesn’t mean the writer himself is crazy.     /     
Meh, I’ll make it. I always do.     /     
There will be no end if you keep asking others’ approval. Be true to yourself and you will be free.     /     
A bad morning does not mean a bad day.     /     
Better to be a lion for a day then a sheep all your life.     /     
Stay close to anything around you that makes you glad you are alive.     /     
With every act of self-care your authentic self gets stronger, and the critical, fearful mind gets weaker. Every act of self-care is a powerful declaration: I am on my side, I am on my side.     /     
Do not wait for the perfect conditions to start.     /     
Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.     /     
Remember, some things have to end for better things to begin.     /     
If every porkchop were perfect, we wouldn’t have hot dogs.     /     
Just keep moving forward. Always.     /     
It’s all about perspective.     /     
Be where your feet are.     /     

OUR LIFT OFF CREW

Meet the professionals behind the Project.

Kim Mitchell Ph.D
Principal Investigator, Research Professor, Crimes against Children Research Center, University of New Hampshire (UNH)
I am an Irish dance mom — my other full time job!
Vicki Banyard Ph.D
Principal Investigator and Distinguished Professor School of Social Work, and Core Faculty for Center of Reseearch on Ending Violence at Rutgers University
I love going camping.
Michelle Ybarra MPH, PH.D
Co-Investigator , President and Reasearch Director at Center for Innovative Public Health Research (CiPHR)
I enjoy doing a silly kind of Pilates called Lagree.
Shira Dunsiger Ph.D
Co-Investigator, Assoicate Professor (Research) at Center for Health Promotion and Health Equity, Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences at Brown Universtiy, School of Public Health
My first job was making balloon animals at children's birthday parties!
Lisa Jones Ph.D
Co-Investigator, Research Associate Professor, Crimes against Children Research Center, University of New Hampshire (UNH)
I love baking bread in my spare time.
Julie Cerel Ph.D
Co-Investigator, Professor and Director of the Suicide Prevention and Exposure Lab at the University of Kentucky College of Social Work
I take a picture of the sunset most days.
Linda Oshin Ph.D
Consultant, Assistant Professor, Clinical Psychology Department Rutgers University
I love baking and will gladly shirk my research responsibilities to bake someone a cake!
Deirdre Colburn Ph.D
Postdoctoral Reasearch Associate, Crimes against Children Research Center, University of New Hampshire (UNH)
I love to travel and have visited 10 different countries over the past 3 years!
Haylee Foster BA.
Research Associate, Crimes against Children Research Center, University of New Hampshire (UNH)
My rescue Pit Bull is my whole world.
Elton Ortiz MS.
Research Associate at the Center for Innovative Public Health Research (CiPHR)
Playing soccer and taking naps are my hobbies outside of work.
Gabriela Crinigan
Research Associate, Crimes against Children Research Center, University of New Hampshire (UNH)
I am an artist and my inspiration comes largely from memories of my upbringing in Venezuela.
Tori Schofield MS.
Research Assistant, Crimes against Children Research Center, University of New Hampshire (UNH)
I am a gym rat and love anything with peanut butter.
Maggie Crean MA.
Research Assistant, Crimes against Children Research Center, University of New Hampshire (UNH)
I am a die-hard Red Sox fan!
Lovisa Werner
Biostatistician, Brown University School of Public Health
I competed in ballroom dance growing up!

OUR PARTNERS

Project lift up is brought to you in collaboration with the following

University of New Hampshire Brown University Rutgers University University of Kentucky CiPHR

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