Crisis Text Line provides 24/7 text-based mental health support and crisis intervention with a community of trained volunteers to support people during their time of need. Aunt Bertha Aunt Bertha opens a dialog window Aunt Bertha is a social care network that connects people...
Warning: This story covers the topic of sexual assault. If you need to talk, you can call the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-4673, or text "HOME" to the Crisis Text Line at 741741. A disturbing social media trend resurfaced again this year, and it's prompting warnings...
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988 will be the new number for the nation's mental health crisis & suicide prevention hotline. Call takers for Colorado's state mental health crisis hotline say they are expecting their phones will be busier than ever.
On October 17, 2020, amidst a raging global pandemic and economic crisis, the President signed the National Suicide Hotline Designation Act of 2020 into law. This act created a 3-digit number to replace the current 10-digit number for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline in 2022. Similar...
988, theU.S. Department of Health and Human Servicesintroduced a $177 million fund to strengthen and expand the existing hotline network operations and telephone infrastructure. An additional $105 million was earmarked to help states increase necessary staffing across the country’s crisis call ...
Crisis hotlineDepressionPreventionSuicideBackground A COVID-19 pandemic-related rise in suicide rates has been predicted due to social isolation, fear, uncertainty, economic turndown and grief. Detecting an increase in suicide rates is difficult in the absence of real-time data. Alternative data ...
The call service, which was launched in July, was restored shortly before midnight on Thursday. People experiencing a mental health crisis were still able to reach a mental health counselor by texting 988 or by visiting 988lifeline.org to start a chat. ...
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Their crisis hotline has been busier than ever in recent years because of more frequent and severe weather brought on by climate change. In 2023, there have been around 70 calls so far, up from fewer than 10 in 2008, when the hotline first appeared. Ann Frellsen, the Atlanta-based ...