2024 TELL Legend Awards
2024 TELL Legend Awards Last year, as part of our 50th anniversary celebrations, TELL launched the TELL Legends Award. This award recognises individuals present and past who have shown excellence in their work, inspired others, and demonstrated an unwavering commitment to the organisation’s vision of zero suicides. Over our 51 years of service, thousands of […]
Raising Awareness about Cyberbullying at Tohoku International School
Students in Grades 5 and 6 at Tohoku International School recently participated in the IB PYP exhibition (PYPx). Students extensively researched a real-life issue and presented their findings to K-12 students, teachers, and parents. Throughout the exhibition, students demonstrated their ability to take responsibility for their learning and their capacity to take action. Towa Nogaki […]
Grassroot Fundraiser Spotlight: Nati Ishigaki
Nati Ishigaki is from Poland and lives in Okinawa with her family of six on a turmeric farm. Nati is an Instagram creator, introducing her daily life in Okinawa. She has also published a cookbook in Polish about Japanese winter home cooking. To find more of Nati’s recent activities, check out their Instagram here. TELL: […]
TOLL FREE Suicide Awareness Month 2024 (March 16 – April 30, 2024)
Suicide Awareness Month – March 16 – April 30, 2024 TOLL FREE Support – 0800-300-8355 (TELL) For many people in Japan, March and April are a time of great transitions. March is the end of the school year, the time to interview for new jobs, and a time when reports are due, contracts signed, and […]
World Bipolar Day 2024
World Bipolar Day (WBD) has been celebrated on March 30th every year for the last decade. Once again, this month, WBD seeks to raise awareness about bipolar disorders and reduce the stigma that all too often surrounds them. The date was chosen as it is the birthday of Vincent Van Gogh, the famed artist who […]
Thank You To The German School of Tokyo Yokohama
A big thank you to The German School of Tokyo Yokohama for raising ¥826,850 for TELL while raising awareness about mental health. We appreciate your advocacy on this crucial issue for youth!
Nurturing Safe Spaces: What You Need to Know in 2024
Nurturing Safe Spaces: What You Need to Know in 2024 We live our lives through the spaces we inhabit, from a Zoom meeting to a pub quiz. In the best cases these spaces, physical or virtual, allow us to be ourselves, to feel accepted, and to feel connected, in community with others. When a space […]
Thank You from the TELL Lifeline Director
Thank You from the TELL Lifeline Director Dear Friends, On behalf of everyone at TELL, we would like to say a big thank you to all of you who donated to our Toll-Free end-of-year fundraising campaign. Thanks to your incredible generosity we have been able to raise enough funds to pilot two months of Toll-Free Support, which surpasses […]
#ItsNotOk – Sexual Abuse and Violence Awareness 2024
February 5th – 11th marks Sexual Abuse and Violence Awareness Week. This a time to amplify the message #ItsNotOk, to address persistent myths surrounding this topic. A study1 released by the Crown Prosecution Service in the United Kingdom on January 26th, 2024, revealed that while progress has been made in addressing attitudes to common false […]
Gratitude in Abundance: A Heartfelt Thank You
Gratitude in Abundance: A Heartfelt Thank You to Our Donors, Sponsors, Partners, Clinicians, Volunteers, and Staff April 1, 1973 was the first time TELL trained volunteers answered the Lifeline. We have embarked on a yearlong celebration of our 50th anniversary. While it is the beginning of the calendar year, we still have our final quarter of celebration […]
Thank You – Grant Sponsorship
TELL is thrilled to announce we are one of the organisations being supported by Mitsubishi Chuo & Community Chest Japan community grants to support people of foreign roots across Japan in 2024. TELL has received funding to train all our Lifeline volunteer support workers and those trained in 2024 in QPR gatekeeper suicide prevention skills. […]
Charles Bentley – TELL Lifeline Support Worker
Charles Bentley – TELL Lifeline Support Worker Trained in the Fall of 2001, retired in July 2020 Contributed 2,336 hours of phone support to users in need. What brought you to TELL? I was in Samaritans in HK for about a year and returned to Japan right before reunification and decided to join the TELL […]