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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

Researchers

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

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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