Youth Suicide Prevention | Sources of Strength http://sourcesofstrength.org/ Recent Videos Video <![CDATA[Silver Springs Sources of Strength]]>  

Great video created by the Silver Springs Sources of Strength team highlighting the Sources of Strength in their lives.

]]> Fri, 09 Nov 2012 00:45:20 GMT <![CDATA[Highlands Ranch High School - Sources of Strength]]>  

This video interviews Peer Leaders and Adult Advisors from Highlands Ranch High School in Colorado about their Sources of Strength efforts. The video was filmed and produced by the Douglas County School District.

]]> Tue, 18 Sep 2012 11:20:45 GMT <![CDATA[Cetpa Heroes PSA]]>  

A PSA created by Cetpa Sources of Strength Peer Leaders in the Atlanta, GA area.

]]> Thu, 26 Jul 2012 17:10:58 GMT <![CDATA[Sources of Strength Overview]]>  

This video provides an introduction and overview to the Sources of Strength program.

]]> Tue, 03 Jul 2012 09:46:21 GMT <![CDATA[Social Networks in Suicide Prevention]]>  

Scott LoMurray discusses the role Social Networks play in Suicide Prevention at a Colorado Town Hall Meeting.

]]> Mon, 02 Jul 2012 16:06:07 GMT <![CDATA[Nicholas Christakis: The hidden influence of social networks]]>  

http://www.ted.com We're all embedded in vast social networks of friends, family, co-workers and more. Nicholas Christakis tracks how a wide variety of traits -- from happiness to obesity -- can spread from person to person, showing how your location in the network might impact your life in ways you don't even know. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate. Watch a highlight reel of the Top 10 TEDTalks at http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10

]]> Tue, 18 Oct 2011 10:45:10 GMT <![CDATA[Sources of Strength Video]]>  

A little video I made for Sources of Strength. *I do not own any pictures. *I do not own any music. *Entertainment use only. no copyright infringement.

]]> Wed, 15 Jun 2011 20:15:52 GMT <![CDATA[Harrison Lip Dub]]>  

Harrison High School's Broadcast/Video Production Program filmed their first school-wide Lip Dub during the Spring of 2011. The broadcasting program partnered with the school's Sources of Strength group to create a Lip Dub that had a message for all teens. Nearly 1,000 students showed up on a Saturday for the filming. The first part of the video was shot backwards, and all singers had to learn to sing their lyrics backwards phonetically. The second part of the video was shot forwards. The entire video was planned, produced, directed, filmed, and edited by Harrison Broadcast/Video Production students. Sources of Strength is a national organization that encourages students to reach out to their peers, teachers, and other adults when they get depressed or feel alone.

]]> Mon, 04 Apr 2011 10:41:48 GMT <![CDATA[Sources of Strength - Washburn PL]]>  

Washburn, ND peer leader created video.

]]> Tue, 08 Mar 2011 09:46:51 GMT <![CDATA[How To Be Alone]]>  A video by fiilmaker, Andrea Dorfman, and poet/singer/songwriter, Tanya Davis. Davis wrote the beautiful poem and performed in the video which Dorfman directed, shot, animated by hand and edited. The video was shot in Halifax, Nova Scotia and was produced by Bravo!FACT http://www.bravofact.com/ For more information on Tanya, go to http://www.tanyadavis.ca or visit her facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/pages/Tanya-Davis/8063194647?ref=sgm You can purchase her first two CDs Make A List and Gorgeous Morning on iTunes and look out for her third CD which will be released in the fall! For more information on Andrea Dorfman, visit her facebook page http://www.facebook.com/pages/Andrea-Dorfman-Films/110789945626226?ref=mf or http://www.andreadorfman.com This video was shot on a Panasonic HVX 200 and the animation was hand drawn+painted and then scanned into Adobe After Effects, exported as QTs and edited on FCP. HOW TO BE ALONE by Tanya Davis If you are at first lonely, be patient. If you've not been alone much, or if when you were, you weren't okay with it, then just wait. You'll find it's fine to be alone once you're embracing it. We could start with the acceptable places, the bathroom, the coffee shop, the library. Where you can stall and read the paper, where you can get your caffeine fix and sit and stay there. Where you can browse the stacks and smell the books. You're not supposed to talk much anyway so it's safe there. There's also the gym. If you're shy you could hang out with yourself in mirrors, you could put headphones in (guitar stroke). And there's public transportation, because we all gotta go places. And there's prayer and meditation. No one will think less if you're hanging with your breath seeking peace and salvation. Start simple. Things you may have previously (electric guitar plucking) based on your avoid being alone principals. The lunch counter. Where you will be surrounded by chow-downers. Employees who only have an hour and their spouses work across town and so they -- like you -- will be alone. Resist the urge to hang out with your cell phone. When you are comfortable with eat lunch and run, take yourself out for dinner. A restaurant with linen and silverware. You're no less intriguing a person when you're eating solo dessert to cleaning the whipped cream from the dish with your finger. In fact some people at full tables will wish they were where you were. Go to the movies. Where it is dark and soothing. Alone in your seat amidst a fleeting community. And then, take yourself out dancing to a club where no one knows you. Stand on the outside of the floor till the lights convince you more and more and the music shows you. Dance like no one's watching...because, they're probably not. And, if they are, assume it is with best of human intentions. The way bodies move genuinely to beats is, after all, gorgeous and affecting. Dance until you're sweating, and beads of perspiration remind you of life's best things, down your back like a brook of blessings. Go to the woods alone, and the trees and squirrels will watch for you. Go to an unfamiliar city, roam the streets, there're always statues to talk to and benches made for sitting give strangers a shared existence if only for a minute and these moments can be so uplifting and the conversations you get in by sitting alone on benches might've never happened had you not been there by yourself Society is afraid of alonedom, like lonely hearts are wasting away in basements, like people must have problems if, after a while, nobody is dating them. but lonely is a freedom that breaths easy and weightless and lonely is healing if you make it. You could stand, swathed by groups and mobs or hold hands with your partner, look both further and farther for the endless quest for company. But no one's in your head and by the time you translate your thoughts, some essence of them may be lost or perhaps it is just kept. Perhaps in the interest of loving oneself, perhaps all those sappy slogans from preschool over to high school's groaning were tokens for holding the lonely at bay. Cuz if you're happy in your head than solitude is blessed and alone is okay. It's okay if no one believes like you. All experience is unique, no one has the same synapses, can't think like you, for this be releived, keeps things interesting lifes magic things in reach. And it doesn't mean you're not connected, that communitie's not present, just take the perspective you get from being one person in one head and feel the effects of it. take silence and respect it. if you have an art that needs a practice, stop neglecting it. if your family doesn't get you, or religious sect is not meant for you, don't obsess about it. you could be in an instant surrounded if you needed it If...]]> Thu, 06 Jan 2011 15:57:45 GMT <![CDATA[Cobbler 2 Cobbler]]>  

Some highlights of the mentoring program in a Rapid City, SD high school that is partnering with Sources of Strength.

]]> Mon, 01 Nov 2010 10:39:49 GMT <![CDATA[CNN Story about Sources of Strength students at CETPA in Atlanta]]>  A news story about the Sources of Strength project students from the latino/a group CETPA are working on in Atlanta, GA.]]> Wed, 27 Oct 2010 10:03:35 GMT <![CDATA[I Hope You Dance Peer Leader Video - Sources of Strength]]>  A peer leader from a Georgia high school made this video when she was home sick one day!]]> Fri, 08 Oct 2010 10:35:54 GMT <![CDATA[Imagine Me - Peer Leader Video - Sources of Strength]]>  A peer leader created video from a Sources of Strength school in Georgia.]]> Fri, 08 Oct 2010 10:35:20 GMT <![CDATA[Games - Dance Master]]>  Here is an example of the game Dance Master being taught to a group and played.]]> Thu, 30 Sep 2010 10:54:49 GMT <![CDATA[PSA for HHS]]>  Spring 2010 This is a PSA for my high school advertising SOS (Sources of Strength). It was featured as the video of the week on: http://hsbj.org/videos/videooftheweek.php?entity_id=201 which is a high school broadcast journalism website. Enjoy! :)]]> Wed, 29 Sep 2010 12:55:20 GMT <![CDATA[Stand By Me - Playing for Change]]>  

From the Playing for Change movement. An incredible compilation of musicians from around the world working together to show us the power music has to inspire us and bring us together.

Check out more Playing for Change

]]> Thu, 03 Jun 2010 17:07:12 GMT <![CDATA[R.E.M. - Everybody Hurts (Video)]]>  

REM reminds us-
"When you feel like letting go, hold on...when you think you've had to much of this life, well hang on....take comfort in your friends....if you feel like you're alone, no you are not alone...everybody hurts sometimes, so hold on"

]]> Thu, 03 Jun 2010 17:00:27 GMT <![CDATA[40 Inspirational Speeches in 2 Minutes]]>  

Here's a little inspiring pick me up from our friends in Hollywood.

]]> Thu, 03 Jun 2010 16:56:23 GMT <![CDATA[Anger is Something That is Hard to Deal With]]>  

A teen illustrates how he deals with his anger. This video is a visual interpretation of one person's true story of how he coped with anger. Anger is a healthy emotion experienced by everyone, but it can also be a difficult emotion to express and manage. In this video, he expressed his anger through violent - kicking holes in the walls, smashing windows and zoning out for periods. After much reading and working on his anger, he found a way to manage and express the intense emotion, and started a journal. For more information on anger, check this out

]]> Thu, 03 Jun 2010 16:52:01 GMT <![CDATA[Cotton]]>  

This film is a visual interpretation of a teenage girl's suicidal thoughts, and how she made the move to seek help. It follows her journey through her darkest times and what she felt during those days. She described her help-seeking "the bravest thing I've ever done". Initially, she felt like she was beyond help, but with determination and coping skills, working with her therapists, she "started to heal" and got better. For more information about suicide or self harm click here

]]> Thu, 03 Jun 2010 16:39:16 GMT <![CDATA[We Can Help Us PSA]]>  

The WeCanHelpUs Campaign was born out of the insight that many teens encounter the same tough times, but many also develop positive solutions to help them get past them. The WeCanHelpUs campaign tells teens that whatever their problem, there is a way to get through it. Viewers are directed to visit reachout.com where they can view and listen to stories from teens that have been there and made it.

 

 

]]> Wed, 02 Jun 2010 15:40:12 GMT <![CDATA[Static]]>  One of the OSU/Reachout.com Real to Reel winners. This video is a visual interpretation of a young man's experiences with chronic pain and how it affected his life. He found changing his way of thinking changed everything and his life. For more information, check out: Helping a friend with a chronic illness: http://us.reachout.com/the_facts/fs_factsheet.php?s=25&f=8017]]> Wed, 02 Jun 2010 14:32:57 GMT