The hotline is designed to shift the focus away from sending police when someone is in crisis, to relying on trained mental health professionals.
A brand-new emergency suicide hotline number went live Saturday.
Remember 988. That is the new number to call anywhere in the country for anyone considering suicide or who are in the midst of a mental health crisis.The hotline is designed to shift the focus away from sending police when someone is in crisis, to relying on trained mental health professionals.That’s not so on Seattle’s Capitol Hill.
When Jimmy Lee, of Seattle, was asked if he knows about 988, he said, “Yes, the new suicide, National Suicide Hotline number.”That stuff they have been seeing is about 988, the new telephone number being rolled out across the country Saturday to connect anyone having a mental health crisis to someone who can help.
“It’s a big day, absolutely.” said Michelle McDaniel, CEO of Crisis Connections, one of the nation’s oldest crisis hotlines. “We’ve been planning for this for well over a year,” McDaniel said, “which is really the conversion of the national suicide prevention lifeline from a 10-digit number to a three digit number, 988.”
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