#crisisline — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #crisisline, aggregated by home.social.
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The Advocate:
"U.S. Sens. Tammy Baldwin and Lisa Murkowski have introduced a bill to write the 988 crisis line’s specialized services for LGBTQ+ youth into law, reviving them after the Trump administration ended them in July.“We are in the middle of a mental health crisis, and the 988 lifeline saves lives, plain and simple,” Baldwin, a Wisconsin Democrat who is a lesbian, said in a press release. “There is absolutely no good reason that Donald Trump took away this specialized help for our LGBTQ youth. Mental health does not see partisan lines or geography, and I’m proud to be working with Democrats and Republicans to do what’s right and ensure that all kids have access to the help they need — regardless of who is president.” She is being joined by Murkowski, a Republican from Alaska."
#LGBTQ #LGBTQPlusYouth #MentalHealth #Suicide #Crisis #CrisisLine
https://www.advocate.com/politics/baldwin-murkowski-lgbtq-youth-hotline -
The #TrevorProject sees 33% jump in #crisisline volume on #inaugurationday and even more the next.
"The #political #targeting of #LGBTQ+ #youth — and #transgender and #nonbinary #youthin particular — must stop," says #TrevorProject #CEO #JaymesBlack.
https://www.advocate.com/news/trevor-project-crisis-calls-trump
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Useful info for my fellow Ottawans, especially those living in Centretown
#Ottawa #Centretown #MentalHealth #CrisisLine #211 #CommunitySupport
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@potus That is so helpful & important 🙏 ❤️
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CW: Crisis Lines - rant-warn about "AI" - exploitation
Will someone PLEASE show me the railroad track carrying all the pseudoscience surveillance trains hauling "AI"-assist, instant "AI" QA, and sentiment detection "AI" to the US #988Lifeline, so I can lay down on the tracks and get it over with.
Ill-gotten conversations as data, stolen from persons when vulnerable. Impossible to have meaningful consent for that, to build these models. Includes exploitation of #CrisisLine workers. They are vulnerable in those moments also.
Pseudoscience for surveillance, control, to institutionalize and sanction continued neglect of basic supports for crisis lines, and in society.
Where's #SAMHSA? Where's the #FTC?
One example, they also have an automated QA product.
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CW: US crisis line worker survey - final report - 988
Linking here to important work by Dan Fichter (he/him) and Greta Opzt (they/them) from survey of #CrisisLineWorkers. Final report here:
https://www.crisiscrowd.org/survey/2023/report& here's a link to webpage with other resources, Dan's notes on the study and #KaiserFamilyFoundation reporting out today.
https://www.crisiscrowd.org/Thoughts: This is important because it centers the voices of #CrisisLine workers. Also, because Dan and Greta have the ability--and access--to communicate the messages to authorities within the systems.
In the US, the federal gov't agency #SAMHSA contracts with a non-profit #Vibrant to administer the #988Lifeline. This might solve some problems, but it creates many others. Non-profit is a tax designation & this is a capitalist system of "care". It also makes accountability difficult, except for the most egregious offenses that catch a day of heat, then we move on. Besides these links, you also got my commentary!
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CW: crisis lines - organizing workers
I'm working on building a list of contacts - individuals and orgs - w/ ability to reach individual crisis line workers. Organizing is on horizon.
#CrisisLine workers are typically isolated. In some cases, intentionally, by orgs they work for.
📢 Send contacts my way please! ty
My email is at advocacy website contact page: https://reformcrisistextline.com/contact/
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The #TrevorProject Extends 988 #CrisisLine #Partnership to #Support Vulnerable #LGBTQ+ #Youth
It will be the second year that the #suicideprevention #organization will provide #services to #young #people in #distress.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #TransKids #GayKids #Health #Healthcare #MentalHealth #Suicide #SuicidePrevention
https://www.advocate.com/news/trevor-project-988-partnership
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Global News BC: Advocates say Alex Fraser Bridge needs a suicide barrier solution https://globalnews.ca/news/9986729/alex-fraser-bridge-suicide-barrier/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #suicide-preventionbarrier #MinistryofTransportation #MentalHealthCrisis #AlexFraserBridge #SuicideBarrier #bridgebarrier #MentalHealth #Deltapolice #Engineering #CrisisLine #Canada #Health
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My #CrisisLine philosophy is:
no algorithms in the data, and delete all saved crisis conversations after allowing for some quality control. No "AI" prompts for crisis line workers (live feeding #AI lines as options). No "effectiveness" algorithms for workers or on the conversations.May sound extreme but I've evolved to this viewpoint. There are other ways to do QA, including voluntary surveys, generous staffing & training. These ways toward respectful care are better than "AI". Better for all of us, as humans caring & being cared for in a terrible,beautiful world. Make it so ❤️
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This following new ad popped up while I was on YouTube. First and foremost, it is the first ad that I have have seen which is not of the predatory marketing type while listening to the YouTube channels that I love to explore. Okay. Enough of my brouhaha. What a beautiful and heartening ad which brings numerous Canadian musical artists together to promote a crisis line for children. Even though our technologies are evolving and that the world is made smaller due to these tools, you and I ought not to forget that children can and do continue to experience exceptional struggles while finding their way. May there always be a means for children who are experiencing suffering to find help and to be taught the tools needed to lessen their suffering/struggles. 🌺
#KidsHelpPhone #children #crisisline #FeelOutLoud #Libèretesémotions -
@rpavlik @dalias @rysiek @ArneBab @heraldicpride
Ryan I read your post from the USA #CrisisLine non-profit "industry" perspective. #CrisisTextLine's for-profit spin-off Loris .ai is an unfortunate classic example.
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CW: Ethical Failures - mental health, research, "AI"
Three common ethics fails in mental health "AI" "sentiment"/diagnosis research.
1)That you're even doing this.
2)De-identify & waive consent (that's not consent).
3)The use of whatever product you come up with on other persons who will be falsely identified, misled, marketed,etc.In USA, research is likely headed to product development and monetizing.
Advocacy, awareness are needed to protect sensitive #CrisisLine conversations from being used. They are likely being used now by larger non-profits for in-house research. #CrisisTextLine #TheTrevorProject
https://www.fastcompany.com/90546991/how-the-trevor-project-is-using-ai-to-prevent-lgbtq-suicides