CSPP Blog – Construction Suicide Prevention Partnership

Digging Into Alcohol’s Impact on Mental Health and Well-Being

By Emily Haro April 2, 2025Outreach, Resource

April is Alcohol Awareness Month, and while we primarily focus on suicide in the construction industry, we must talk about alcohol and its impact on mental health. Construction workers are…

Construction Careline Website and Resource Updates

By Max Margolis March 14, 2025Making A Difference!, Resource

Website Traffic Since launching the line, the Construction Careline website has had over 600 unique users visit the website. To increase traffic to the website, we have two URLs that…

Guest Blog Post: Women in Construction Week

By Guest Blogger March 3, 2025Hope, Making A Difference!

Sara is a current social work intern at Lines for Life. Prior to entering the social work field, she worked for a general contractor for 5 years as a project…

Opioids and Mental Health

By Emily Haro February 24, 2025Resource

The United States is experiencing an opioid overdose epidemic. In 2023, there were over 100,000 fatal drug overdoses, the majority involving opioids. In Oregon and Washington, opioids account for an overwhelming…

CSPP in Minneapolis

By Emily Haro February 11, 2025Outreach

Flynn Company’s Minneapolis branch workers have always stood by their motto: “Safety before all else.” Even during COVID, when all 37 other branches discontinued their annual Safety Day, the Minneapolis…

Virtual Shop Talk

By CSPP TEAM February 3, 2025Event Update, Outreach, Resource

The CSPP is launching something new! Every month, we will host an open virtual topic-specific shop talk to share our video toolbox resources, discuss strategies for impactful toolbox talks, and,…

Breaking The Stigma: Video Toolbox Talk

By CSPP TEAM January 27, 2025Making A Difference!, Outreach, Podcasts

This month’s toolbox talk focuses on Breaking the Stigma. In this video toolbox talk, we dive deeper into this issue and provide more tips for breaking the stigma. We all…

The Construction Careline-Advancing CSPP’s Mission

By Max Margolis January 21, 2025Hope, Making A Difference!, Resource

CSPP History Primer In 2020, Lines For Life (LFL) launched the Construction Suicide Prevention Partnership (CSPP) to address the alarming suicide rate in the construction industry. CDC's mortality data indicates…

Houston, we have hope!

By Max Margolis January 17, 2025Event Update, Hope, Outreach

Fred Hartman Bridge at Sunset

A Little Goes a Long Way

By Emily Haro January 8, 2025Hope, Making A Difference!, Resource

Making Small Changes to Support Suicide Prevention In construction suicide prevention, it can often feel like fighting against the wind to drive industry change. Mental health and wellness can feel…