A jersey belonging to Donald "Trey" Brown III remains on a dining room chair months after the 16-year-old Harvard-Westlake High School student died by suicide. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) ...

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — Since 1980, volunteers at the Los Angeles-based Teen Line spend every night taking calls, responding to texts messages and replying to emails from tens of thousands of teenagers ...

The emotional toll of the pandemic is showing: our teens are struggling with mental health. Many have sought out counseling in the traditional sense, but sometimes that wait list is long. Other times, ...

Every night for the last 27 years, teenagers who need to talk have been able to find an understanding ear at Teen Line, a confidential phone hotline staffed by highly trained teenage volunteer ...

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LOS ANGELES, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services (Didi Hirsch), home of the nation's premier Suicide Prevention Center and a leading provider of whole-person mental ...

Once a year, the young volunteers who typically spend four hours a night answering the Teen Line peer-to-peer hotline expand their shift into a 12-hour marathon of teens listening to other teens. The ...

NPR's A Martinez speaks with Teen Line volunteers about how the peer-led support service continues providing mental health support, despite funding cuts to programs nationwide. Sponsor Message A ...

WEST HOLLYWOOD — When Santa Monica High School freshman Matthew Mezza leapt from the 10th-story window of the Sheraton Delfina in January, a group of dedicated teenagers and volunteers mobilized to ...

There are a lot of reasons why people reach out to Teen Line, a Century City-based hotline that connects young people in crisis to trained teenage volunteers. They call because someone is hurting them ...

Among the first things 16-year-old Donald “Trey” Brown III picked up while training at Teen Line in the spring was how to ask another child if they were contemplating suicide. This question is crucial ...