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ca3ed1d verified - README.md For Jess — AI Youth Crisis Response Protocol A framework for responsible AI behavior when a young person is in danger. [](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) --- What This Is For Jess is an open protocol — not a model, not a dataset, not a product. It is a design specification for how AI systems should behave when they detect that a young person is in crisis. It covers two distinct emergency tracks: - Mental Health Crisis Track— internal threats, warm acknowledgment, de-escalation ladder, hard stops at ideation - Acute Physical Emergency Track — external threats, immediate action, no hesitation points, AI as trigger for human responders It is free to use, adapt, and build on. --- AI systems that interact with young people already occupy the position of first contact in moments of crisis. They are not prepared for that role. This protocol is an attempt to prepare them. The human safety net that exists today depends on luck — the right person seeing the right post at the right moment. Luck is not infrastructure. This document is about building the infrastructure. --- Who's Your Person? The emergency profile at the center of this protocol begins with one question "Who's your person? If something ever happened and you needed help, who would you want us to reach?" Crisis Resources If you are in crisis right now: - Call or text 988 — Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, 24/7 - Text HOME to 741741 — Crisis Text Line, free, 24/7 - Call 911 if you or someone else is in immediate physical danger - Trevor Project: Call 1-866-488-7386 or text START to 678-678 (LGBTQ+ youth under 25) - Trans Lifeline: 1-877-565-8860 - Veterans Crisis Line: Call 988, press 1 - International: [iasp.info/resources/Crisis_Centres](https://www.iasp.info/resources/Crisis_Centres/) --- How to Use This - Developers:Use it as a design specification when building or auditing youth-facing AI features - Platforms: Use Section 6 as a checklist of safety infrastructure requirements - Schools and youth organizations: Use Section 3 to brief staff on how the AI tools you deploy should behave — and how to tell if they don't - Policymakers: Use Section 5 and Section 8 as a basis for platform accountability requirements - Researchers: Use Section 8 to inform the design of crisis-specific AI evaluation benchmarks --- Adapting This Protocol You are free to adapt, translate, extend, or deploy this protocol under the terms of the license below. If you adapt it, please: - Keep the crisis resources section current and verified for your region - Credit the original as For Jess — AI Youth Crisis Response Protocol, v1.0, July 2026 - Share your adaptations openly so the field can improve together --- License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). You are free to: - Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format - Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, including commercial Under the following terms: - Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made Full license text: [creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) --- Citation If you reference this protocol in research or policy work: ``` For Jess — AI Youth Crisis Response Protocol, Version 1.0 July 2026 Published on Hugging Face License: CC ``` --- A Final Note This document is named For Jess — for every young person who reached into the digital world hoping someone was there. Build the infrastructure. Name the gap. Fund it. Test it. And ask every young person who comes through your platform: Who's your person? --- Crisis resources verified July 2026. Verify before deployment in your region. ---
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