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Read moreLost&Found, in partnership with the South Dakota Humanities Council, is conducting a digital storytelling project for National Suicide Prevention Month (September). The “Storytelling Is Suicide Prevention: 30 Days, 30 Stories” project will tell the stories of 30 South Dakotans who have faced and overcome adversity resulting from mental health challenges and/or suicide ideation, risks, attempts, and loss.
Submit Your StoryWe've gathered common questions from potential storytellers and answered them here.
Read more“What we should be teaching our youth and young adults are the proper coping skills/mechanisms when faced with life's struggles. We need to teach them the importance of self-love and self-care.”
Read moreLost&Found, in partnership with the South Dakota Humanities Council, is conducting a digital storytelling project for National Suicide Prevention Month (September). The “30 Days, 30 Stories: Let’s #DoMore to Prevent Suicide” project will tell the stories of 30 youth and young adults from the state of South Dakota who have faced and overcome adversity resulting from mental health challenges and/or suicide ideation, risks, attempts, and loss.
Submit Your StoryWe've gathered common questions from potential storytellers and answered them here.
Read more“What we should be teaching our youth and young adults are the proper coping skills/mechanisms when faced with life's struggles. We need to teach them the importance of self-love and self-care.”
This year's theme for the 30 Days, 30 Stories project is "Storytelling Is Suicide Prevention." Stories are a powerful tool for building connections, reducing stigma, and improving mental health. Hear from Lost&Found's staff on why storytelling is so powerful in an episode of the "Great Minds with Lost&Found" podcast.
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An honest, heartfelt story has the power to change hearts and minds. This September, Lost&Found is sharing 30 of them – an empowering, impactful story for each day of National Suicide Prevention Month.
The digital storytelling campaign, titled “30 Days, 30 Stories: Let’s #DoMore to Prevent Suicide,” will tell the stories of 30 people who have faced and overcome adversity resulting from mental health challenges, including suicide ideation, risks, attempts, and loss.
As South Dakota and the surrounding region face continually rising suicide rates, we’ve asked individuals to share their stories of resilience to lend hope, opportunities for conversation, and resources to South Dakota communities.
As an organization focused on providing comprehensive suicide prevention and postvention resources for young adults 10-34 in South Dakota and the surrounding region, Lost&Found has three main goals for this campaign:
A new story will be posted to this website each day in September. We encourage sharing these stories on social platforms – you never know who might need to hear a story of resilience on a given day. The hashtag for this story series is #30Days30Stories.
The campaign is being conducted in partnership with the South Dakota Humanities Council and 4Front Studios of Sioux Falls.
We are collecting stories to be shared as part of National Suicide Prevention Month in September 2023. If you have been affected by mental illness or suicide, we’d like to hear about your experience – including the skills of resilience and sources of strength that have helped you. Please consider sharing your story with us using this form.
The Lost&Found Association came to life in 2010 thanks to a team of soon-to-be college students committed to making a difference in the lives of peers struggling with depression and suicide.
Today, Lost&Found is a growing education and advocacy nonprofit that serves students on 15 college campuses, offering resilience-building programming and connecting students in need with support communities.