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Overdose prevention education for students

Every second matters before help arrives.

Project Lifeline equips high school students with the knowledge and hands-on skills to understand the opioid epidemic, recognize an overdose, and respond effectively — while professional help is on the way.

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The habits and choices that shape a lifetime often take root in high school. We meet students at that turning point, before experimentation becomes dependence, and give them knowledge that protects them for years to come.

Response windowMinutes, not hours
Who we trainHigh school students
What they learnRecognize · Respond · Reverse

“Our mission is to educate and empower the next generation to combat the opioid epidemic through education, overdose prevention, and naloxone training — building safer schools, stronger communities, and a future where preventable overdose deaths are rare.”

Why this exists

It started on a call.

While serving as an EMT, I responded to numerous opioid overdose calls. Time after time, I witnessed the devastating effects of the opioid epidemic — not only on the individuals experiencing an overdose, but on their families, friends, and entire communities. Many of these emergencies were preventable, yet by the time EMS arrived, every second mattered.

Those experiences changed the way I viewed public health. I realized that emergency medicine saves lives in the moment, but education has the power to save lives before an emergency ever occurs. I began asking myself a simple question: what if more people knew how to recognize an opioid overdose and administer naloxone before first responders arrived?

That question became the foundation of this organization. By partnering with schools and communities, we're working toward a future where every young person is prepared to act when every second counts.

Field noteFounder, Project Lifeline

Emergency medicine saves lives in the moment.

Education saves them before the emergency starts.

— That's the gap we built this program to close.

The training

What students walk away knowing.

Evidence-based education paired with hands-on naloxone training, built to be taught in a classroom and remembered in an emergency.

Student Response Protocol

Quick reference
  • 1

    Understand the epidemic

    What opioids and fentanyl are, why overdoses happen, and how the crisis reaches every kind of community — including theirs.

  • 2

    Recognize an overdose

    The visible signs — unresponsiveness, slowed or stopped breathing, blue-tinted lips or fingertips — and how to tell it apart from other emergencies.

  • 3

    Respond and call for help

    Calling 911, positioning the person safely, and starting rescue breathing while help is on the way.

  • 4

    Administer naloxone

    Hands-on practice with training devices so students can act with confidence, not hesitation, in the moment it counts.

Our impact

What your support has made possible.

These numbers update as our programs grow. Every one of them represents a student who now knows what to do in the moment that matters most.

Live program statusUpdated —
These figures are self-reported by Project Lifeline and updated periodically by our team.