A second chance at life.
ESCAPE is a revolutionary step forward in suicide prevention; offering a more discreet & convenient experience in getting help thanks to our modernized app that delivers a 2 part solution for saving lives. The first being an SOS matchmaking service with trained community members who can specifically relate more to a particular users struggles. And the 2nd being a full on reset button for life via an all inclusive retreat to escape to.
You don't have to explain everything.
Urgent needs go straight to trained crisis responders.
We picked someone. You can say no.
A human team matches on language, what you said you need, and who is available. No browsing, no profiles of people in distress.
Urgent help is one tap away, through partner crisis services. Supporters never replace emergency care.
Your next chapter, step by step
Built with you, by qualified people. Each item names who is responsible.
The reset button
An all-inclusive retreat to escape to, run with licensed partners.
Screened by a clinician · travel covered · someone stays in touch for 90 days after.
Two parts. One reset.
Open the app and hit SOS: you are matched to a trained community member who has been where you are. If the place you are in is the problem, we fly you out of it to an all-inclusive retreat, then spend 90 days helping you build a life you do not need to escape from. Many people will only ever need part one. The retreat is the first thing we are building and testing.
ESCAPE Connect
One tap, a few words, and a human team matches you to a trained community member who relates to what you are going through. A safety plan and a direct line to urgent help are built in.
ESCAPE Experiences
An all-inclusive retreat to escape to: flights covered, room ready, kind people, good food, nature, and a clinician who has checked it is right for you.
ESCAPE Rebuild
Your match stays with you for 90 days after the retreat, and a written plan with money behind it fixes the thing that was crushing you: work, housing, debt, grief, community.
ESCAPE is never a substitute for psychiatric hospital care, supervised withdrawal or emergency treatment. Most people who use it will never need a stay.
Sometimes a person doesn't simply need someone to talk to. They need somewhere to go, someone to belong to, and a realistic path toward a different life.
A crisis line gets you through tonight, and we will always point to it first. ESCAPE is built for tomorrow: the rent still due, the empty apartment, the job that is gone.
Not everyone in crisis needs a stay. Some people face problems that conversation alone cannot fix, and the right combination of safety, belonging, treatment, a change of place and practical money can open options they could not see before. ESCAPE is new and untested. We will earn trust by publishing what we measure, never by claiming a number of lives saved.
Millions reach out every year. That is the scale we are building for.
Crisis services do essential work in the moment, and we will always point to them first. Our part is what comes next: a person who stays, a place to go, and help with the circumstances.
Three different measures, so they cannot be added together. Not everyone who thinks about suicide needs a stay.
Hit SOS. Talk to someone who has been where you are.
Signing up, explaining yourself and picking a stranger is too much to ask of someone who is exhausted. So the first step is tiny: one tap, a few words, and you are matched to a trained community member who has lived something like what you are living. You can say no and get another.
- No forms, no profile. Nobody browses anyone.
- A person, not an algorithm, decides who you talk to. Software only turns what you said into a few simple categories, then deletes the recording.
- Urgent means urgent. If someone is in danger, trained crisis responders from a partner service step in, whether or not their supporter is online.
- Nothing to re-explain. The same person carries the context through to a stay and the 90 days after.
Kept safe by people who are licensed for what they do, and a committee that can say no.
A clinical committee with real authority
A standing Clinical and Safety Committee reports to the board and can pause any feature or any stay, regardless of pressure to grow. The first hire is a licensed clinical director with suicide-prevention experience.
Partners deliver what they are licensed for
An established charity hosts ESCAPE. Experienced retreat staff run the stays. Hospitals and licensed clinicians handle assessment and treatment. ESCAPE arranges and pays, and stays responsible for who is referred where, for safety, and for the standard of the service.
Emergencies never land on a volunteer
Urgent cases go to established crisis services, following the same standards the 988 Lifeline uses. Written rules, named contacts, and every incident reviewed.
What is real today, what comes next, and the dream.
The first pilot
- This site, and partners being signed: a host charity, a retreat team with a venue, clinicians
- A free stay offered to 30 to 60 people in one US region, to see who says yes
- Two groups of up to 12 guests, screened by a clinician, with the retreat's own staff on site
- Ninety days of help at home for every guest, plus a comparison group who get the help without a stay
- The app used only for first contact and follow-up, with a human doing the matching
Nothing is open yet. No partner is signed yet. Costed at $250,000.
If the results are good
- Stays running all year with the same partners
- First contracts with a health system or county
- ESCAPE becomes its own charity
- The app opens to more people, still one region at a time
- A second region, more venues, more aftercare partners
Costed at $750,000 for year two. Decided by an independent review, not by us.
The vision we are working toward
- A flagship campus of our own, part retreat and part friendly campus
- Help to start again somewhere else, including abroad where it is safe and legal
- Local chapters and a community of former guests who help the next person
- Employers who hire straight from the program
Earned through results. Not funded, not promised, not scheduled.
Straight answers to the first questions people ask.
How does someone get in?
Through the app, or through a partner such as a clinic or a community organization. One tap, a few words, a short safety check, then a human team suggests one person to talk to. A stay is offered only after that person and a clinician both think it would help.
What does "free" include?
The app, your support person and the follow-up calls are free for everyone. A stay is free if you cannot pay, travel included; if you can pay, there is a fair published price. Practical help from the fund, such as a deposit or a course, has a per-person limit decided under written rules.
How available is my support person?
Planned as set hours and regular check-ins, several a week during a stay and at least weekly for the 90 days after, with replies within a day. Not around the clock. Anything urgent goes to crisis responders at any hour, through the same app.
What happens after 90 days?
If the plan is finished, you keep the community and can come back if things slip. If it is not finished, the plan is extended rather than dropped. Measured honestly: did the housing, the job, the treatment actually happen.
What if going home is not safe?
Then home is not the plan. Housing partners work on transitional accommodation before you leave, and your support person stays with you through the move. This is one of the specific situations the practical-help fund exists for.
These describe the planned pilot. Details will be finalized with the host charity and clinical partners. More questions answered →
The reset button, pictured.
A place you would actually want to escape to, where nobody has to be wealthy, polished or outgoing to belong. Concept imagery for the look and feel we are building toward.
ESCAPE Experiences · a partner campus concept
Community is a big part of what helpsConcept renders, not photographs of a real ESCAPE site. No real participants are shown.
Who are you here as?
Each page is written for you: the numbers, the safeguards, and exactly what we are asking.
Fund a second chance
What the pilot costs, what each gift size does, how it pays for itself long-term, and exactly what your money buys first.
See the case → Clinical, residential & community partnersBuild the network with us
Who does what, what we ask of partners, what we bring, and the agreements that protect everyone.
See the partnership → Public figures & creatorsLend your voice to what comes next
A founding circle for people willing to stand behind suicide prevention, with safe-messaging rules we will never bend.
See the role → EveryoneFor you, or someone you love
What ESCAPE will feel like to use, who the Angels are, how your privacy works, how to volunteer, and where to get help today.
Start here →Because where you are today doesn't have to be where your story ends.
A new place. A new community. A new opportunity. Help us build it carefully, prove it honestly, and then grow it.