The suicide prevention nonprofit Trans Lifeline is blowing its whistle on the 988 crisis hotline in a new report this week, saying the hotline’s collaboration with police exposes callers to ...

"988 is a unique hotline in that it connects the callers to the service and the service is crisis counseling and crisis intervention." 988 is already live in some places across the country ...

While most of the 988 line in Washington is funded by a state tax on cell phone bills, federal infrastructure and funds help ...

California mental health providers are reporting receiving more calls from people in crisis since the launch of the 988 hotline on July 15, 2022. Courtesy Getty Images. California made it easier ...

Missouri has seen one of the nation’s largest increases in calls to the revamped national hotline that aids people facing ...

Tim Bommel Missouri House of Representatives A Missouri lawmaker is under criminal investigation after texting the state’s 988 suicide hotline that she had a gun to her head in what she called a ...

988 has been the nationwide number to call for the suicide hotline, ever since it was signed into law in 2020. "Anybody who's experiencing a mental health crisis, an emotional disturbance ...

Tim Bommel Missouri House of Representatives A Missouri lawmaker who texted the state’s 988 suicide hotline saying that she had a gun to her head won’t face criminal charges, the Cole County ...