# SafeUT

**Type:** resource
**Status:** Draft
**Confidence:** Medium
**Tier:** B
**Focus:** crisis chat, school safety tips, youth mental health, suicide prevention, statewide K-12 and higher education, first responders, Utah National Guard
**Primary Location:** Salt Lake City, UT
**Utah Location:** statewide
**Region:** statewide
**Website:** https://safeut.org
**Updated:** 2026-08-11
**Pull:** *Utah's statutory crisis chat and anonymous school tip line — licensed HMHI counselors 24/7, free to students and schools.*
**Relates:** cites [Source: SafeUT Official Website](safeut-official-website.md) · https://greatutah.work/pages/safeut-official-website.md · https://safeut.org/
**Relates:** cites [Source: Utah HB373 (2019) — SafeUT Crisis Line Statute](safeut-utah-code-hb373.md) · https://greatutah.work/pages/safeut-utah-code-hb373.md · https://le.utah.gov/~2019/bills/hbillenr/HB0373.htm
**Relates:** cites [Source: SafeUT Annual Report FY25](safeut-annual-report-fy25.md) · https://greatutah.work/pages/safeut-annual-report-fy25.md · https://safeut.utahhealth.acsitefactory.com/sites/g/files/zrelqx271/files/media/documents/2026/safeut_annualreport_fy25_digital-2_0.pdf

## Summary

SafeUT is a **statewide** Utah crisis and school-safety program run through **Huntsman Mental Health Institute (HMHI)** at University of Utah Health. Students, parents, and educators can chat or call **licensed master's-level mental health counselors** around the clock, submit anonymous tips about bullying or potential school threats, and access related apps for **first responders** (SafeUT Frontline) and the **Utah National Guard** ([official site](safeut-official-website.md)).

Utah law requires the **University Neuropsychiatric Institute** — the statutory name carried in [HB373 (2019)](safeut-utah-code-hb373.md) — to operate the **SafeUT Crisis Line** with **24/7** crisis intervention and anonymous school reporting, and appropriated **$1.77 million** ongoing from the Education Fund to SafeUT Operations ([HB373](safeut-utah-code-hb373.md)). The **Utah Attorney General's Office** is a named founding partner and provides **staff support** to the SafeUT and School Safety Commission ([Utah AG page](utah-ag-safeut-far-more-than-an-app.md)).

## Impact

Breadth is one state and depth is the reason the tier is not lower. In FY2025 the program handled **24,716 chats**, **8,220** K-12 and higher-education tips, and **342 emergency interventions** ([annual report](safeut-annual-report-fy25.md)) — and an emergency intervention in a youth suicide-risk context is about as deep as displacement gets per person reached, which is ruling 6's case for depth substituting for breadth.

Permanence rests on statute rather than on goodwill: [HB373 (2019)](safeut-utah-code-hb373.md) *requires* the operating institute to run the line 24/7 with anonymous school reporting and appropriates **$1.77 million** ongoing from the Education Fund. A program a legislature has written into code and funded on an ongoing basis is structurally different from one dependent on a grant cycle, and that is what makes this a change in how the state works rather than a service the state buys.

The counterfactual is the honest limit on the tier. Crisis lines are not scarce — 988 exists nationally, and other states run school tip lines — so the displacement SafeUT causes is not "these 24,716 conversations would not have happened" but the narrower and still real "they would not have reached **licensed master's-level clinicians** through the same channel that also carries anonymous threat tips, with a designated contact at every participating school." That integration of clinical crisis response with school threat reporting in one statutory channel is the part with no obvious substitute.

Two claims that would raise the tier are **not** supported by anything captured here, and the page declines to lean on them: no captured document publishes a count of averted school attacks (only **890** tips categorized as potential school threats), and no capture confirms that another state completed a replication of the model. If replication were established, the breadth argument would change materially.

## Who It's For

- Utah **K-12 and higher-education** students, parents, and school staff needing confidential crisis chat or school safety tips.
- **Frontline workers** (health care, fire/EMS, law enforcement, corrections, dispatch) and their families via SafeUT Frontline ([Frontline page](safeut-frontline-official-page.md)).
- **Utah National Guard** soldiers, veterans, and families via SafeUT National Guard (referenced on the main site; not separately captured here).

## How To Use It

- Download the **SafeUT** app (iOS/Android) or use **Start a Chat**, **Submit a Tip**, or **Get Help Now** buttons on [safeut.org](safeut-official-website.md).
- Service is **free** and described as **confidential**, with exceptions when counselors believe someone is in imminent danger ([official site](safeut-official-website.md)).
- Schools participate through designated contacts per the [Utah School SafeUT Model Policy](safeut-school-model-policy.md).

Program statistics: see [FY25 annual report](safeut-annual-report-fy25.md) — **24,716** total chats, **8,220** K-12/higher-ed tips, and **342** emergency interventions in FY2025 (July 2024–June 2025), all **self-reported** by SafeUT.

## Open Questions

- **Lead claim not supported in captures:** none of the captured SafeUT documents publish a count of **"averted school attacks"** or similar — only **890** K-12 tips categorized as **Potential School Threat (11%)** in FY25 ([annual report](safeut-annual-report-fy25.md)). Secondary news quotes are not cited here.
- **Other states copying SafeUT:** the [Utah AG page](utah-ag-safeut-far-more-than-an-app.md) states (in **2019** tense) that the commission was **working with several states** — it does not name states or confirm completed rollouts. No capture proves full replication elsewhere.
- **HMHI rename vs statute:** operational pages say **Huntsman Mental Health Institute**; enrolled statute still says **University Neuropsychiatric Institute** ([HB373](safeut-utah-code-hb373.md)). Whether later code sections were updated is uncaptured.
- **Live dashboard counts:** [data dashboard](safeut-data-dashboard.md) metrics load dynamically and were **absent from the HTML capture** — use annual reports for figures.
- **No identifier resolved:** no separate `ein`/`utah-entity` for SafeUT as a standalone legal entity; it operates as a university/state program.

## Evidence

- [Source: SafeUT Official Website](safeut-official-website.md) · https://greatutah.work/pages/safeut-official-website.md · https://safeut.org/
- [Source: SafeUT Data Dashboard](safeut-data-dashboard.md) · https://greatutah.work/pages/safeut-data-dashboard.md · https://safeut.org/data-dashboard
- [Source: SafeUT Frontline Official Page](safeut-frontline-official-page.md) · https://greatutah.work/pages/safeut-frontline-official-page.md · https://safeut.org/frontline
- [Source: Utah HB373 (2019) — SafeUT Crisis Line Statute](safeut-utah-code-hb373.md) · https://greatutah.work/pages/safeut-utah-code-hb373.md · https://le.utah.gov/~2019/bills/hbillenr/HB0373.htm
- [Source: Utah School SafeUT Model Policy](safeut-school-model-policy.md) · https://greatutah.work/pages/safeut-school-model-policy.md · https://schools.utah.gov/schoolsafetycenter/_sscresources/_sscresourcedocs/SchoolSafeUTModelPolicy.pdf
- [Source: SafeUT Annual Report FY25](safeut-annual-report-fy25.md) · https://greatutah.work/pages/safeut-annual-report-fy25.md · https://safeut.utahhealth.acsitefactory.com/sites/g/files/zrelqx271/files/media/documents/2026/safeut_annualreport_fy25_digital-2_0.pdf
- [Source: Utah Attorney General — Far More Than Just an App](utah-ag-safeut-far-more-than-an-app.md) · https://greatutah.work/pages/utah-ag-safeut-far-more-than-an-app.md · https://attorneygeneral.utah.gov/far-more-than-just-an-app/