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About this tool
Organize coping steps, trusted contacts and the actions you choose in advance.
A personal safety plan is a written list you prepare while you are calm, so that during a crisis you are following steps you already chose rather than deciding in the moment. This tool organises what you enter into the order safety plans are normally used in — early warning signs first, then your own coping and grounding steps, a safer place to go, trusted people and how to reach them, and finally the ways you have chosen to reduce access to anything risky — and marks the plan as immediate-support if you flag that you may not be able to stay safe right now. It is a private planning aid, not treatment or emergency care.
Open Personal Crisis Safety Plan on AltFTool — it loads instantly in your browser.
In the Inputs panel fill Personal warning signs, Self-selected grounding or coping steps, Safer place, Trusted contacts and how to reach them, and User-chosen ways to reduce immediate risk, one item per line; the Private starter example chip loads a skeleton to edit.
Tick the checkbox 'There may be immediate danger or inability to stay safe' if it applies: the result heading switches from Personal safety plan to Immediate-support plan and a get-help-now line is placed at the very top of the ordered list.
Read the Result panel counts for Warning signs, Coping steps, Trusted contacts and Risk-reduction steps, then use the Copy or Download icon buttons to save personal-crisis-safety-plan.txt.
Warning signs, coping steps, safer place, people and risk reduction appear in sequence, so the plan reads as instructions rather than notes.
Each line comes from what you typed — the tool does not suggest coping strategies or contacts on your behalf.
Ticking the immediate-danger toggle puts a get-help-now step at the very top of the plan, above everything else.
Five things: the warning signs that a crisis is starting, coping or grounding steps that have helped you before, a safer place you can go, the people you would contact and exactly how to reach them, and the steps you have chosen to put distance between yourself and anything you could use to hurt yourself. Those are the five sections this tool builds.
Because helpline numbers are country-specific and change, and printing a wrong number in an emergency is worse than printing none. Look up the current crisis line for where you live and add it to your trusted-contacts section yourself so it is in the plan with everything else.
No. A safety plan is an informational aid for organising steps you have already decided on, not assessment, diagnosis or treatment. If you are struggling, speak to a doctor, therapist or crisis service, and if there is immediate danger contact local emergency services or get to someone you trust in person now.
No. The plan is assembled in your browser from what is in the fields, so nothing is uploaded. Copy or print the finished plan and keep it somewhere you can reach quickly, and consider giving a copy to one person you trust.