Jed Foundation
http://www.jedfoundation.org
Is a web-based resource for parents, students, college professionals and supporters. Their goal is to help students become emotionally healthy before they reach the point of crisis by helping students make lifestyle changes that promote sounder mental health; by encouraging students to seek help when they need it; and ensuring our students are in a safe, healthy campus communities able and committed to protecting their best interests.
Campus Blues
http://www.campusblues.com
Features information and resources for college students on mental health, anxiety, loneliness, alcohol abuse, gambling, and other social and emotional issues.
Go Ask Alice!
http://www.goaskalice.comumbia.edu/
Is a web-based health question-and-answer service produced by Alice!, Columbia University’s Health Education Program. Go Ask Alice! provides information to help young people make better decisions concerning their health and well-being. Go Ask Alice! answers questions about relationships, sexuality, emotional health, alcohol and other drugs, and other topics. The addresses of e-mails sent to Go Ask Alice! are electronically scrambled to preserve the senders’ confidentiality. Questions are answered by a team of Columbia University health educators and information and research specialists from other health-related organizations. The Go Ask Alice! Archive on emotional health also contains information on suicide and depression.
Samaritans
http://www.samaritans.org/
Is an organization based in the United Kingdom that offers 24-hour, confidential emotional support to people who are experiencing feelings of distress or despair, including those feelings that may lead to suicide. The Samaritans operate a free and confidential e-mail service, which generally responds to your e-mail within 24 hours. You can send an e-mail to jo@samaritans.org or use the Samaritans website to send a confidential e-mail that cannot be traced back to your address.
Ulifeline.org
http://www.ulifeline.org
Is a web-based resource created by the Jed Foundation to provide students with a not-threatening and supportive link to their college’s mental health center as well as important mental health information. Students are able to download information about various mental illnesses, ask questions, make appointments and seek help anonymously via the Internet. Resources offered on Ulifeline.org include a customized version of Go Ask Alice! that allows students to have virtually any mental health question answered 24 hours a day; a mental health and frug information library that features consumer health information from Harvard Medical School; and the Duke Diagnostic Psychiatry Screening Program, which allows the Ulifeline user to be screened for different mental health disorders. While this screening is not meant to take the place of an evaluation by a mental health professional, a positive result suggests that the student would benefit from comprehensive mental health screening.
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
http://www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org/
The National Suicide Preention Lifeline provides immediate assistance to individuals in suicidal crisis by connecting them to the nearest available suicide prevention and mental health service provider through a toll-free telephone number:
1-800-273-8255 (TALK).