About Teen Lifeline

For the past 35 years, Teen Lifeline has worked to prevent teen suicide by enhancing resiliency in youth and fostering supportive communities. 

Teen Lifeline works at preventing teen suicide in Arizona through their peer-to-peer counseling hotline and texting service where teens can reach out to a trained teen Peer Counselors about any problems that they are having.

Each Peer Counselor goes through Teen Lifeline's Life Skills Training which equips teens with valuable communication, problem-solving, and action planning skills. Peer Counselors use these skills to help every teen they talk to on the phone or through texts, but they also take those skills to develop better relationships and outcomes in their lives.

Masters-level clinicians supervise each call, and text Teen Lifeline receives and facilitate the Life Skills Training of volunteers. They also go into communities across Arizona to talk to students, parents, school faculty, and other community members about the best ways to prevent teen suicide and help foster the supportive communities teens need.

Through these relationships in the community, Teen Lifeline has works with schools to place their number and a message of hope on the back of more than 300,000 school IDs. Teen Lifeline has also been instrumental in helping schools and communities across Arizona handle and heal when they experience a loss in the community.