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About Amelia Lehto

Amelia Lehto is a leader with experience at the intersection of social media and suicide prevention. She specializes in suicide prevention and postvention on the local, state and national levels through trainings, advocacy and innovative technology. She is the Vice President for local nonprofit Six Feet Over, Crisis Centers Division Chair for the American Association of Suicidology and works full time for a local Crisis Center. After experiencing loss at a young age, she discovered that one is not defined by how they died, but how they lived. To quote the famous and favorite Lorax, “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.” You can find her on Twitter @Atoes84

Crisis Calling – Part Two

I’ll never forget the bitter winter morning a few years ago when my life would be forever changed, as it would for a woman we’ll call Rose - a young, single, working mom with another on the way. Rose wanted what we all want - a better life for her kids. I could easily relate. [...]

By |2018-06-05T15:28:02-07:00December 20th, 2017|Stories|Comments Off on Crisis Calling – Part Two

Calling Crisis

When I tell people what I do for a living, I typically get one of three reactions: #1 “Oh wow! I could NEVER do THAT!”; #2 “So, do you get sexual callers?”; or, most commonly, #3 Silence. The conversation is stopped in its tracks. I am one of those mythical creatures that works on a [...]

By |2017-07-19T10:12:10-07:00July 18th, 2017|Stories|Comments Off on Calling Crisis
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