Category Archives: Youth Crisis Line

Being Yourself

Posted on December 9, 2011 by Celeste

I was fortunate to attend Sacramento City College’s Psychology Club Career Panel recently. California Youth Crisis Line had set up a booth there to recruit new volunteers and raise awareness about what it is we do on the line. The speakers were a Marriage and Family Therapist, a Licensed Social Worker, and two professors of [...]

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Reach Out: A Response to “Reflection.”

Posted on May 12, 2011 by Celeste

There are certain things that are not acceptable… things you have to cover up in order not to stand out for having “something wrong with you.”
Some things you need to sweep under the rug, you cannot say exactly how you feel.
Put on a smiling face because that’s what the world demands of you.
If you show [...]

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Empowerment

Posted on May 4, 2011 by Celeste

Many youth who call California Youth Crisis Line say they want advice. They might be used to getting advice whenever they have a problem, and so they are surprised when we don’t do that. I am proud to volunteer for an organization that believes that all of our callers have the ability to make their [...]

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The Hidden Story

Posted on April 8, 2011 by Celeste

Of course we don’t know everyone intimately. That would take forever! We have a number of people in our lives who we know really well; some who we know sort of well; and others who we may even see often, that we don’t know at all.
A privilege of being a California Youth Crisis Line counselor [...]

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Learning to be Nonjudgmental

Posted on March 9, 2011 by Celeste

Something we learn as crisis counselors for the California Youth Crisis Line is to be nonjudgmental. I feel I am pretty good about doing that on the line (because I am actively working on it), but sometimes in the outside world, it can be very challenging to keep an open mind.
Being judgmental is a part [...]

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