The specialized suicide-prevention counseling service for LGBTQ youth and young adults received more than 1.3 million ...

The 988 suicide and crisis lifeline remains one of the most significant, easily accessible resources ever created to help people in crisis. So two years after its launch, why aren’t states ...

The crisis responders who answer the national hotline run by the Department of Veterans Affairs are often talking to former armed servicemembers at life’s lowest moments, many contemplating ...

Most community crisis services did not expand after the launch of the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, potentially blunting the effectiveness of the hotline, a new study says. Walk-in psychiatric ...

New York City previously operated a crisis line called NYC Well, but transitioned to 988 amid the national rollout. The hotline has been lauded by advocates as the “gold standard” of mental ...

The nonprofit that runs the city’s 988 mental health crisis hotline may have to gut its staff in the coming months because of a dropoff in funding, marking another hit for a behavioral health ...

In the wake of Hurricane Helene’s and Hurricane Milton’s destruction, Tampa Bay’s crisis hotline workers fielded a flurry of calls for help related to the two hurricanes. Nearly 2,500 people ...

Mental health experts have said that the 988 hotline for mental health emergencies ... calls and help a metastasizing mental health crisis in the United States, accelerated by the Covid-19 ...

Thousands of calls to the hotline are being abandoned each month as the state faces a surge in demand but lacks the necessary resources to maintain a fully operational crisis intervention system.