Texting that saves lives

Name: Texting that saves lives
Uploaded: 2012-04-27T15:12:33Z
Duration: 5 min 7 s
Description: When Nancy Lublin started texting teenagers to help with her social advocacy organization, what she found was shocking -- they started texting back about their own problems, from bullying to depression to abuse. So she's setting up a text-only crisis line, and the results might be even more important than she expected.

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Nancy Lublin |

TED2012

• February 2012

When Nancy Lublin started texting teenagers to help with her social advocacy organization, what she found was shocking -- they started texting back about their own problems, from bullying to depression to abuse. So she's setting up a text-only crisis line, and the results might be even more important than she expected.