"I'm really encouraged and excited by the data," one advocate said. In the six months since the launch of the national, government-backed 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, contact and answer rates have ...

HARRISBURG — A new universal three-digit phone number, 9-8-8, launched nationwide to help people who are suffering a mental or behavioral health crisis or contemplating suicide. The 988 Suicide & ...

After the summer launch of the new 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline number, calls to the lifeline increased 45% compared with the same time last year, and the majority of those calls were connected to ...

Major cell phone carriers have started to adopt a new technology that helps direct callers to the 988 suicide and crisis hotline to help centers based on their physical location rather than their ...

(BCN) –Santa Clara County has launched a new lifeline phone number that aims to assist individuals in times of mental health or substance use crisis. It can be reached by dialing the three-digit ...

NAMI Tennessee is encouraging individuals experiencing mental health crises to use a potentially lifesaving resource. As easy to remember as 911, the new 988 phone number will connect callers with ...

Paris, Ky. (WKYT) - The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is now using the number 988 to help people who are suicidal or going through a mental health crisis. It is similar to 911, except it will ...

The new 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline – a nationwide program launched in mid-July to help make mental health care more accessible – arrives just in time to assist countless residents experiencing ...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — The Michigan Veterans Affairs Agency (MVAA) has partnered with the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) to add a crisis line to veterans’ hunting and fishing licenses. The 988 ...