Facebook Enhances Suicide-Prevention Tools
Facebook teamed up with Forefront: Innovations in Suicide Prevention on a suite of tools to help users of the social network report posts that might signal thoughts of suicide.
Facebook teamed up with Forefront: Innovations in Suicide Prevention on a suite of tools to help users of the social network report posts that might signal thoughts of suicide.
Forefront is an interdisciplinary organization based in the University of Washington’s School of Social Work, and details of the joint initiative were revealed at the fifth annual Compassion Research Day Wednesday at Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif.
Forefront explained how the new tools work in a release:
Working with Forefront and other mental health experts, Facebook enhanced its suite of tools to support suicidal people and tell those who see and report suicidal posts on Facebook how they can help.
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