WHAT IS FRIENDS FOR LIFE?
Using the LoveBomb app, text, social media, or any format you prefer, send a once-per-week mental health check-in video, text, voice, or graphic message to your BFF each Friday. You’ll strengthen friendships, make more authentic connections, and help your best friend manage and promote their mental health and safeguard their wellbeing. Couldn’t we all use a little LOVE right now? Can we count on you as a “Friend For Life Warrior”
WE’RE DEVELOPING THE FFL YOUTH SUICIDE PREVENTION APP IN 2022—WITH YOUR HELP!
Suicide, the 2nd leading cause of death in youth 10-34, and is the SILENT EPIDEMIC we can't afford to ignore any for a moment lor. WITH YOUR HELP, @ESE’s FRIENDS FOR LIFE peer-mediated gate-keeping PROACTIVE YOUTH SUICIDE PREVENTION APP—one built with each and every component based on over a year’s worth of our founder’s daily extensive research into the scientific mental health literare and exploration of daily entensive research into the most cutting edge youth mental heaelth & suicide prevention findings to date so that they could be directly translated into life-saving app features.
Please consider donating to our current crowdfunding effort to raise the funds to develop the beta version of the 1st of it’s kind PROACTIVE PEER-TO-PEER GATEKEEPING YOUTH-SUICIDE PREVENTION APP built using @ESE’S FRIENDS FOR LIFE PEER-MEDIATED MENTAL HEALTH CHECK-IN MODEL!
***Please note this is a crowdfunding effort so if your hesitating to donate because you can only give $5-20 or less, PLEASE DON’T. We’re most likely to succeed if tons of people get involved with the amount they can afford & then help the fundraiser gain momentum by also donating a little social currency by reposting the DonorBox page on FB/Twitter or one of our fundraising posts on IG! Thank you for putting your money where your mouth is—a mouth that is speaking out to END THE SILENCE***
Friends For Life Meet-Up Forum
We realized many of our community members didn’t have a friend they were comfortable confiding in about mental health and self-harm related issues. So while people wanted to participate, how can you do a peer-to-peer checkin without a friend to confide in? We understand that opening up about mental health topics is hard enough but it is especially hard when you don’t know if the other person is willing to reciprocate or be supportive. That is why we have started a FREE, ANONYMOUS, MENTAL HEALTH FORUM with one focus being a FRIENDS FOR LIFE MEETUP FORUM CHANNEL and SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP! You don’t have to pay a single cent to join, the only membership requirement is an interest in and willingness to converse about mental health issues with respect and empathy!
We’re so excited about this new addition to the campaign, what about you? Want to check it out? Gain instantaneous free access to the community forum wherein you can discuss a multitude of mental health and suicide prevention topics and thereby begin to get to know the members of the @endthesilentepidemic community better. Once you’ve befriended a few users, you can use the private messaging feature at any time to start a one-on-one private convo to possibly discuss partnering up as FFL!
“FRIENDS FOR LIFE DUO”
Friends for Life DUO
I asked my dear friend Ava Martin and together we became the movement’s first “FRIENDS FOR LIFE DUO.” Our FFL DUO post says we love each and we will fight for each other’s mental wellness and safety! It also says that we are proud to be part of the FFL movement, which helps raise awareness for YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH and YOUTH SUICIDE PREVENTION.
Now were looking for other brave best friends to join us to be featured as a FFL DUO, a distinction that earns you and your FFL a post just like the one below to be shared across our social media pages and on our official FFL WARRIOR WALL permanently! It’s totally fine if this part of the movement isn’t for you, but if, in addition to fighting for your best friend, you want to help END THE SILENCE and STIGMA surrounding YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH and YOUTH SUICIDE in a big way, this is a great way to get involved at the next level!
To become a FRIENDS FOR LIFE DUO follow all the above steps to join the FFL movement and make sure that you and your FFL click “yes” to the question “do you want to be featured in a FRIENDS FOR LIFE DUO POST?” Then after you have signed up following the steps above, use the email icon below to send us an email with your favorite photo and IG handle (and make sure you FFL sends an email with the same). Within a couple of days you will see your own FFL DUO post on our SM and on the WARRIOR WALL!