Our goal is to encourage teens to be available to assist other teens who are considering suicide as a solution for whatever painful circumstance they are going through.
We call this ASSIST4LIFE, which is empowering teens to be peer support for other teens. Statistics say that 80% of teens that are considering suicide will talk about it in one way or another. In many cases, teens considering suicide have shared their decisions to follow through with suicide with other teens. Because of peer pressure, the idea that you are ratting on your friends, teens, at times, have kept the knowledge of a teen considering suicide to themselves or other teens that would keep it quiet. Again the idea is that “I don’t want to lose my friendship by saying anything”. The truth is you will be terminating that friendship by keeping quiet and the pain that will be thrust on you and the families and friends of those who are planning to commit suicide will, at times, be unbearable.
So we are asking teens to help us mitigate teen suicides by being available to use the TOOL4LIFE – BEAR – to ASSIST4LIFE those who are contemplating suicide. What a great way to help your friends and classmates through hard times. You can be a giver of life to those that need hope in the worst way possible.
If you are a teen, please make yourself available, and consider how you can be a true friend to those who are in considering suicide as a solution. Contact us at info@bear4life.com and we will help you be a peer who can bring life into what seems to be a hopeless circumstance.
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