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Community Participation

There are many opportunities for members of your community to help in our efforts through events and volunteering.

Outreach & Marketing

SafeUT Outreach Request

Want SafeUT to attend an event in your school or community? Requesting a virtual or in-person presentation, or our attendance at a booth has never been easier. Please complete our Outreach Request form.

A member of the SafeUT Team will contact you within three to five business days. We make every effort to get back to you as soon as possible, however if you’re working on a deadline, please make note of it and give us as much notice as you can.

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Marketing Materials Request

Looking for SafeUT marketing materials for your school, organization, community, or event? Want to use our logo? Please complete our Marketing Materials Request form.

A member of the SafeUT Team will contact you within three to five business days. We make every effort to get back to you as soon as possible, however if you’re working on a deadline, please make note of it and give us as much notice as you can.

If you’re looking for digital files, we also ask you to complete our Marketing Materials Request form. These files need to be approved for your use only and should not be altered in any way.

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We appreciate your generosity in wanting to donate to SafeUT. Your donation can help fund our marketing and outreach efforts across Utah.

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Partner

Are you a company interested in partnering with SafeUT? If so, please complete this Third Party Vendor form. It will be sent to SafeUT Commission members who are part of the SafeUT Third Party Vendor subcommittee for evaluation. One of the subcommittee members will respond to you via email with next steps upon completion of the form.

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Data Dashboard (updated daily)

Dashboard analytics for Safe UT

Reports on how many tips and chats happened, who they came from, and what topics were most common are available upon request.

Annual Reports

2023 Annual Report

In fiscal year 2023, more than 1.1 million back-and-forth chat messages were sent between SafeUT app users and SafeUT counselors and more than 9,200 school safety tips were submitted, leading SafeUT to save 2 lives every day on average.

Learn more about SafeUT's impact and growth.

Legislative Bill

"Statistics devastatingly show that suicide is the number one cause of death of Utah children ages 10-12. In addition, our schools and communities are facing crisis-level safety concerns," said Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes. "Because of such alarming realities statewide, our office has worked closely in a very bipartisan manner with legislators, agencies, parents, and advocates to find the right solution."

Suicide is the leading cause of death for youth and young adults, ages 10-24, in the state of Utah. In 2014, School Safety Tip Line Commission (S.B. 232) legislation was introduced by Utah State Sen. Daniel Thatcher to explore solutions to both the mental health crisis and school safety threats. The commission was chaired by the Utah Attorney General’s Office and included legislators, state agencies, and members of the public with the intent to provide recommended solutions in the following state legislative general session. In 2015, the School Safety and Crisis Line legislation (S.B. 175) was introduced and passed, implementing a permanent commission that expanded to include the University of Utah’s Neuropsychiatric Institute (now Huntsman Mental Health Institute) as the crisis services provider. The SafeUT app became available to Utah’s middle and high schools in early 2016.

The SafeUT program was developed with state funding and the original app was designed and donated by a private company. After seeing its success, the University of Utah redesigned the SafeUT app to ensure its future capabilities to respond to mental health and school safety crises. Starting in 2018, SafeUT expanded its services to Utah elementary schools, higher ed institutions and colleges, the Utah National Guard (2019), and Utah’s first responders and their families (2020). 

Commission Members

Ric Cantrell (Commission Chair)

Utah Attorney General Chief of Staff

Sen. Daniel Thatcher

Utah State Senate

Rep. Steven Eliason

Utah State House of Representatives

Shauntelle Cota

Utah State Board of Education

Nichole Cunha

Utah Department of Health and Human Services

Rachel Lucynski

Huntsman Mental Health Institute

Katie Mazzie

Utah System of Higher Education

Amy Mikkelsen

Utah Department of Health and Human Services

Ken Wallentine

Law Enforcement and Emergency Response

Missy Wilson Larsen

Representative of the Public

Barbara Stallone

Representative of the Public

Have an unanswered question? Contact us as SafeUT@hsc.utah.edu or

Note: This is not a crisis line.