I'm Glad You Stayed Project
Friends Helping Friends,
In Loving Memory of Dylan Salge
Help is available!
HOW WE HELP
About Us
Mission Statement
The I'm Glad You Stayed Project strives to educate the public, especially teenagers, on real-time suicide prevention actions and provide free resources to save the lives of those struggling with mental health and suicidal ideation. We are not professionals, just friends helping friends, trying to make a difference!
We are a federally recognized 501(c) non-profit and rely on volunteers to run our project.
Photo by Joseph Cress/Iowa City Press-Citizen
We are a federally recognized 501(c) non-profit and rely on volunteers to run our project.
Photo by Joseph Cress/Iowa City Press-Citizen
OUR GOALS
Goal 1
Get resources and information out to middle schools and high schools across the United States and globally.
Learn MoreGoal 2
To ignite the conversation on mental health and suicide, and provide information that is not taught in schools.
Learn MoreOUR IGYSP PRODUCTS
APPLY TO BE AN IGYSP AMBASSADOR
Our I’m Glad You Stayed Project Ambassador responsibilities are:
to share our IGYSP suicide prevention and awareness resources with your peers and community; when available, help work the I’m Glad You Stayed Project table at organizational events and participate in any I’m Glad You Stayed Project sponsored events; approach your personal clubs, sports teams, organizations, or school counselors to ask if they would like to be provided with our complimentary IGYSP wristbands and pamphlets. (Refer them to this website to order.)
Guide anyone struggling to the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at 988.
Call 911 if someone approaches you who is in immediate crisis.
to share our IGYSP suicide prevention and awareness resources with your peers and community; when available, help work the I’m Glad You Stayed Project table at organizational events and participate in any I’m Glad You Stayed Project sponsored events; approach your personal clubs, sports teams, organizations, or school counselors to ask if they would like to be provided with our complimentary IGYSP wristbands and pamphlets. (Refer them to this website to order.)
Guide anyone struggling to the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at 988.
Call 911 if someone approaches you who is in immediate crisis.
Make A Donation
Donations are used for the purchase of I'm Glad You Stayed Project bracelets, pamphlets, and other suicide prevention resources that will be distributed free of charge to individuals, groups, and organizations primarily within our target audience of middle school and high school students within the state of Iowa and beyond.
We are recognized as a Nonprofit Corporation in the state of Iowa and a federally recognized nonprofit organization with IRS 501(c) status.
87-4472134
We are recognized as a Nonprofit Corporation in the state of Iowa and a federally recognized nonprofit organization with IRS 501(c) status.
87-4472134
$100
