By Sam Guthrie, Americorps Mental Health First Aid Training Fellow The 9-8-8 National Suicide and Crisis Lifeline is often misunderstood; many people think it only serves those actively contemplating suicide
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We are the people your teens reach out to when they are in crisis and they can’t or won’t talk with you. Together, we have spent thousands of hours speaking
On July 16th 2022, the first nationwide three-digit phone number for mental health and substance use crisis support launched. The number, 988, built on the existing Lifeline Network, gives people
To the right of her open laptop is the large hotline telephone that links Stevie Shuchart with unknown callers who may be suicidal, or stressed out, perhaps isolated — always
“I kinda wanna try to stay alive since you were nice enough to hear me out. It kinda gives me another reason to think people are still good,” a teenage