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Los Angeles, CA (PRWeb) 13 December 2011

Facebook has announced a new service that harnesses the power of social networking and crisis support to prevent suicide across the country and Canada. The new service allows Facebook users to sign a suicide note posted by seeing friends on Facebook using either a report of suicidal behavior is the subject of a report link or links found on the site. The person who posted a suicide note, then immediately receive an e-mail from Facebook invite them to call the National Suicide Prevention Life Line 1-800-273-Talk (8255), or click on the link to start a confidential conversation with a crisis worker.

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline

1-800-273-Talk (8255) or toll free http://www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org/ suicide prevention telephone network consists of 152 crisis centers. Lifeline is funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and the management Link2Health Solutions, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Mental Health Society in New York City (MHA-NYC). Lifeline provides free and confidential crisis counseling to all who need 24 / 7 and responds to more than 3 million calls since its launch in 2005.

We are pleased to extend our partnership with a link and provide them with the crisis even more opportunities to seek help, said a person books a major cop, Joe Sullivan. Commitment to a life line for suicide prevention people on Facebook to receive fast, meaningful help when they need, and we look forward to continuing our work with them to save lives.

Facebook and salvation is to be commended for addressing one of the nations most tragic of Public Health, said the surgeon general, Regina M. Benjamin, MD, MBA, serves as Sullivan National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention. Nearly 100 Americans die from suicide every day, 36,035 lives every year. For every person killed, two die in suicide. These deaths are even more pathetic because they prevent. We have effective treatments for suicidal people back hope and desire to live, and we know how powerful personal connections and support can be. Therefore, we as a nation to do everything we can to reach those at risk and provide them with help and hope needed to survive and return to productive lives with his family, friends and communities.

entertainment industry and our coalition partners, social media, including Facebook, has a vast reach to inform the pubic of the importance and availability of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline and the Crisis Staff, Brian Dyak, president and CEO of Entertainment Industries Council, Inc., a member of the National Programme of Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention Executive Committee of the Committee for European Integration is a priority for suicide prevention as a major public awareness campaign in the state of California and nationally for 2012.

crisis center workers from two centers in the Lifeline network, Boys Town National Hotline and Finger Lakes Goodwill 2-1-1/LIFE Line, will be available 24 hours a day, seven days a week to respond to Facebook users prefer to use the forums. Lifeline is now responding to dozens of people every day who have expressed suicidal thoughts on Facebook.

We have been working with Facebook since 2006 to assist in the risk of the user and are excited to launch this new service, said John Draper, Ph.D., is project director of Life Line and the MHA-head NYCs conduct health technology. Even though the average saving handle 70,000 calls per month, we heard from our fans on Facebook, and others that there are many people in crisis who do not feel comfortable picking up the phone. This new service provides a way for them to get the help they need in the way they want it.

entertainment industry council

EIC, a nonprofit organization, founded in 1983 for the entertainment industry leaders to bring the energy to carry on the communication of health and social issues. The organization believes that a major pioneer in the field of entertainment and one of the premiere success in education, entertainment and information resources for entertainment creators, through innovative and time proven services and methods of “encouraging the art of making a difference” in the entertainment industry. EIC also produces national television simulcast of the show Prism Awards, which deals in detail the drug abuse and mental illness. Prevention, treatment and recovery

EIC also addresses issues such as diabetes, ADHD, foster care, women’s health, firearm safety and injury prevention, sun safety and skin cancer prevention, human trafficking, terrorism and homeland security, eating disorders and obesity, seat belt use and road safety and HIV / AIDS. He also launched initiatives to increase public information and interest in science, engineering and technology. EICs web http://www.eiconline.org. Prism Awards Web site is http://www.prismawards.com.

National Action Alliance for the Protection of suicide

National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention (Action Alliance) is a public-private partnerships to improve the National Strategy for Suicide Prevention. Community Action Plan envision a nation without a tragic experience of suicide. Community Action Plan was launched by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and former Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates on 10 September 2010, with input and support of many public and private stakeholders. For more information, see http://www.actionallianceforsuicideprevention.org.

SAMHSA

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) is a public institution under the Ministry of Health and Welfare. Its role is to reduce the impact of drug abuse and mental illness in America community.

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