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Find a Helpline Tool Expands to the United States in Partnership with the American Association of Suicidology
May 19, 2021 11:18 ET | Source: American Association of Suicidology American Association of Suicidology Washington, District of Columbia, UNITED STATES
Washington D.C., May 19, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) The American Association of Suicidology (AAS) is happy to announce a partnership with New Zealand charity, Live for Tomorrow, a technology-based nonprofit that launched its free Find A Helpline tool in New Zealand in September. The tool, available at findahelpline.com, is the world’s largest resource of mental health and crisis helplines, offering over 1,600 services in 66 countries that provide immediate emotional support over phone, text or web chat. Live for Tomorrow works directly with helplines to ensure their data remains accurate and reliable. From today, people seeking access to crisis support through AAS’s we
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Two summers ago, I found myself on a whale-watching journey in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where I was teaching at the Fine Arts Work Center. We swayed from one side of the ship to the other to observe various species fins, minkes, and humpbacks performing synchronized acrobatics in waters where fishing nets threaten. Tranquil, playful, spouting fountains of ocean spray and then plunging under, they seemed not at all the wicked beasts that history had taught us to fear. I recalled that we were in the same seas in which
Moby-Dick’s
Pequod had sailed, and I thought this might have been however unconsciously why I had signed up for the adventure. It was as if the whales were calling me back to a promise I had made to myself long ago.