KUTO, Kids Under Twenty One

...window for early giving Monday, April 5 - Wednesday May 5, 2021!

The Golf Classic is BACK!!

... 'one of the best ways to decrease suicide risk is connection to family, according to Jonathan Singer, president of the American Association of Suicidology.'

JOIN US for Youth Mental Health First Aid! In-person, appropriately distanced & masked! Learn skills to recognize risk and crisis sooner than later and keep the young people in your life emotionally safe and well!

Give STL - Now More Than Ever! Support Our Nonprofits! Since 2014 on a single day in May, the St. Louis region comes together to collectively support hundreds of the region's nonprofits. Last year, at the brink of the COVID-19... pandemic our region came together to raise $4.5 million for our community. As this pandemic continues, nonprofits face exceptional challenges and have been forced to think-out-of-box to increase their services and expenses as the demand in their communities grow. Give STL returns, May 6, 2021! Join us for 24 hours of online giving to benefit our St. Louis and Illinois communities. Early Giving opens Monday Apriil 5th! Join us for 24 hours of online giving to benefit our St. Louis and Illinois communities.

...LOOK what our friends at Behavioral Health Response are doing - partnering with STL City Police to provide an alternative to police response in a mental health related crisis. https://fox2now.com//911-cops-and-clinicians-program-to-c/

... if things are feeling too heavy to manage, focus on what you CAN control. If you need support, perspective and hope, call the KUTO Crisis Helpline - 888/314.644.5886 - we care, we listen, we can help you help yourself!

...99 ways to be kind to your mind & practice mental health: 1. Exercise (running, walking, etc.). 2. Put on fake tattoos. 3. Write (poetry, stories, journal). 4. Scribble/doodle on paper. ...Continue reading

...many KUTO friends are participating in this day long, world-wide, FREE, online suicide prevention summit. Great opportunity to view the films 'Scattering CJ' and 'The Ripple Effect', learn about new initiatives, and hear from suicide prevention thought leaders.

...need some extra support? Missouri's Show Me Hope initiative offers coping, self-care and access to crisis counseling that can ease the day to day stress of living through emotionally difficult and complicated times brought on by C19. https://www.moshowmehope.org

... help our friends at Active Minds learn how youth mental health has been impacted by the many changes brought on by COVID-19.

Let’s change this and make Missouri safer. Learn how you can support legislation and policies for suicide prevention, join the Missouri Suicide Prevention Advocacy Network www.mospn.org/missourispan #Missouri