Solstice

It's winter Solstice, which is the longest night of the year. How are you spending it?

(photo by Jennifer Gandin Le)

New Recommendations for Reporting on Suicide

Emotion Technology helped develop the newest version of the Recommendations for Reporting on Suicide. We were tasked with developing recommendations for discussing suicide on social media and blogs. 

Recommendations for Reporting on Suicide

New Postvention Toolkit for Schools

Emotion Technology CEO Christopher Gandin Le recently served as primary reviewer for a new postvention resource for schools.  We are proud to share that resource with you here.  Please click the following link to view it.

After a Suicide:  A Toolkit for Schools (401k PDF)

After A Suicide: A Toolkit For Schools

YPulse: Lifeline Gallery a Key Youth Resource

YPulse, the leading authority on youth and marketing to teens, tweens, and Generation Y, listed the Lifeline Gallery as a key online resource dedicated to helping youth deal with issues like mental health, sexual health, and physical fitness/nutrition.

Lifeline Gallery – Another innovative approach to providing virtual space for discussions around experiences with suicide, Christopher Gandin Le, CEO and Co-founder of Emotion Technology, co-created the Lifeline Gallery with Jessica Haas. Visitors are invited to create an avatar, and then link that avatar to their voice or text story about struggling with losing someone to suicide, or recovering after their own suicide attempt.

KXAN: Austin company prevents suicide online

NBC affiliate KXAN ran a story on March 15th about Emotion Technology's SXSW Interactive panel titled "RT: I'm Going To Kill Myself. Preventing Suicide Online."

Watch the video below!