youth outreach

Help Yourself, Then Help Someone Else: How To Observe National Suicide Prevention Week

This past Sunday marked the beginning of National Suicide Prevention Week, designated by the American Association Of Suicidology to help raise awareness toward the problems of suicide and self-harm. Whether it’s the tragic deaths of returning war veterans suffering from PTSD, the genuinely shocking passing of a beloved celebrity like Robin Williams or the unknown […]

AP Against Bullying: 9 Ways You Can Take A Stand

As a staff, we are constantly active on social media and, all too often, come across readers who are facing the torment of bullying in their daily lives. As adults, many of us can still remember facing the typical high school bully, and with time comes perspective. We thought we would offer up the perspective […]

Hope For The Day Presents: Music Saved My Life with Frank Turner

For National Suicide Prevention Week, AP and Hope For The Day have teamed up to bring you three brand new episodes of “Music Saved My Life.” Today, Frank Turner discusses his introduction to punk music, and the punk-rock community, which he describes as “a refuge for the weird kids,” and how it has helped him […]

The Lead - Watching Rocketown: exaggeration, religion, state laws and how the venue became infamous

After an employee of the Nashville music venue/youth outreach center Rocketown was fired in late January for what appeared to be his support of same-sex marriage, and a physical altercation between the venue's staff and a member of the band Volumes that was first reported as an instance of the club objecting to his own […]

The Lead: You’re Not In This Alone: introducing the Hope For The Day list series

Every day, we are bombarded by negativity. Whether it’s a horrible tragedy we see on the news, an ad that makes us worry about our physical appearances, a snide comment on a website, a fight with a family member or friend or simply one more thing gone wrong on a day when nothing seems to […]

Music Saved My Life: As I Lay Dying

In part five of our “Music Saved My Life” series with non-profit organization, Hope For The Day, As I Lay Dying discuss the positive impact music had on their lives. Hope For The Day is a non-profit movement that seeks to educate youth using music and the arts as a defense mechanism to suicide. PART […]

Contributor Blog - Musician life coach Dave Sherman: A Plea For Change

[Photo: the Newtown Bee] I think what so many people are struggling with—besides the details of Friday’s events—is an emotional disquiet brought on by trying to understand an event that is ultimately irrational. There is nothing I could hear that would “make sense” of what happened. I think the more we try to understand it, […]