NEED HELP IMMEDIATELY?  

If you or someone you know is in crisis please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255. The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is a national network of local crisis centers that provides free and confidential emotional support to people in suicidal crisis or emotional distress 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. 

Crisis Text Line: Text the word HOME to 741741 

BISD is fortunate to have an amazing and supportive counseling team and a social worker to assist our students. However, if a student needs assistance outside of school, here are a few community organizations that can provide help in times of crisis. In addition, we use a suicide prevention curriculum that includes a parent brief screen for adolescent depression

GREATER COMMUNITY*:  

Bainbridge Youth Services (206) 842-9675 https://askbys.org/ Bainbridge Youth Services provides professional, no-fee, confidential counseling for youth in our community, ages 12-21. All youth are welcome at BYS, located at 8533 Madison Ave N (across from the pool, behind Ordway).   

Kitsap Mental Health Services (360) 373-3425 http://www.kitsapmentalhealth.org/

Additional resources:

• Raising Resilience: Video of Bainbridge Island grief counselor sharing advice to help parents process and support their children through the grieving process
• Helping Teens with Traumatic Grief: Tips for Caregivers
• Youth Suicide Prevention, Intervention and Postvention from the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction
• Society for the Prevention of Teen Suicide http://www.sptsusa.org
• BIPOC Healing Support Group
• Boys Town Hotline: www.yourlifeyourvoice.org
• Crisis Text Line: www.crisistextline
• Parent Help in English and Spanish: parenthelp123.org
• Crisis Chat, online chat for suicide prevention: www.crisischat.org/chat
• The Trevor Project, LGBTQ youth: www.thetrevorproject.org
• Suicide Prevention Lifeline: www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org
• S.A.F.E. Alternative: www.selfinjury.com
• Navos - Family Counseling and Support Center: https://www.navos.org/crisis-hotlines/
• American Academy for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: www.aacap.org

Alcohol/Drug Abuse:

• National Alcohol and Drug Abuse Hotline: 1-844-289-0879
• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration: 1-800-662-4357

• Raising Resilience Video with Bainbridge Island grief counselor sharing advice to help parents process and support their children through the grieving process
• Helping Teens with Traumatic Grief: Tips for Caregivers
• Mary Bridge Children's Hospital Grief & Loss Book List

Hotlines:

• Volunteers of America: 1-800-584-3578
• Boys Town USA Hotline: 1-800-448-3000
• Kitsap Mental Health Crisis Response Team: 1-360-373-5031
• Teen Link, talk to a peer, 6-10 p.m.: 1-866-833-6546
• Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255
• Trevor Project, LGBTQ youth: 1-866-488-7386
• Bainbridge Youth Services: 1-206-842-9675
• Navos - Family Counseling and Support Center: 1-206-48-8226
• Harrison Health Partners - Center for Mental Health: 1-360-337-8200
• Seattle Children's Mental Health Services: 1-206-987-2164 or 1-866-987-2000
• Dialectical Behavior Therapy Center of Seattle: 1-206-374-0109
• National Alliance on Mental Illness, Seattle: 1-206-783-4288
• American Academy for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: 1-800-273-TALK

Social Services:

• Volunteers of America: 1-800-899-0089
• Family Help Line: 1-800-932-4673
• Family Health Hotline, all languages: 1-800-322-2588

 *These organizations are not overseen by the Bainbridge Island School District and as a result, the organizations are not subject to the policies and procedures of BISD. It is the responsibility of parents and guardians to research and evaluate the organization prior to using their services. 

BISD cares about the whole child and has developed plans to help support students if they experience emotional turmoil:

• Emotional or Behavioral Distress 
• BISD Suicide Prevention Plan