John Kevin Hines, is an American suicide prevention speaker who gained national fame in the United States for surviving an attempted suicide by jumping from the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California. His story has been covered a lot and since then he has been an activist for the promotion of suicide prevention. Hines has been featured on CNN, HuffPost, ABC News, Larry King Now, and The Today Show. He has appeared in over 2,000 universities and colleges around the world, and over 3,000 high schools share his story, "Triumph Over Adversity, The Kevin Hines Story". He co-founded the Kevin Foundation and Margaret Hines, a 501-based organization based in Atlanta, Georgia. The Foundation provides funding and education for suicide prevention in the United States and around the world.
Author of self-help books who has served on the boards of the International Bipolar Foundation, the Bridge Rail Foundation, and the San Francisco Mental Health Association. In 2013, he published Cracked Not Broken: Surviving and Thriving After a Suicide Attempt, a memoir.
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