We Work Well With All Other Services
Our service through you and friends is there 24/7 to assist before and between therapist contact
Summary
When a friend is in danger from drowning or from self-harm thoughts, we wonder who can help. Everybody combined is the answer.
How We Work Together
- Acting together, family, friends and MessagesHelp.org form a massive army, and are available anywhere, anytime and able to reinforce any available services.
- Trained volunteers and professionals are very valuable but cannot be available immediately and continuously all over the country.
- MessagesHelp.org can be first on the scene nearly always, can be the main force when risk is low to moderate (hard to predict unfortunately!), and can be a 24/7 protective ally supplementing the work of trained volunteers and mental health professionals when the problem is complex.
- MessagesHelp.org is designed to supplement and cooperate with existing suicide-prevention services, especially with our innovative safety wrap approach.
- We work also with Healing Minds Matter, another Rotary mental health initiative in Sri Lanka, which provides trained people, an app, and a 24/7 telephone service.
All existing services are aiming to get the same safe outcome
Important
If you are apprehensive that the person is at risk of immediate self harm or is strongly thinking about this, you must involve an organisation which offers person to person contact. You can look at our crisis section to find some of these.
View Crisis Resources