Mental Health Crisis Support

If you are in a mental health crisis or emergency, you are deeply valued and are not alone. Please reach out to the crisis services listed below for support. (We do not provide crisis services here.)

Community-based alternatives to police

For community-based alternatives to police in your city, visit: Don't Call the Police

  • If you or someone you know is in immediate, life-threatening danger and decide to call 911, please be aware that police are not equipped to offer mental health support and may even pose danger to People of Color, Mentally Ill, Neurodivergent, and Disabled People.

  • Please reach out to community leaders, neighbors, friends, and family to be present if you are calling the police.

In addition to calling crisis services, we warmly encourage you to let your trusted loved ones know that you are struggling. 

  • Ask them to stay with you and to make a plan together. You don't have to face this alone. 

  • If you do not want police or hospital intervention, please communicate this clearly.

If there are weapons such as guns nearby, please lock them away or ask a trusted person to remove them for safety. 

Crisis services: warm lines that do not use police intervention

The warm-lines below offer transparency about their reporting and tracing policies:

Call Blackline

Call or text: 800-604-5841
Blackline: Peer support and counseling prioritizing BIPOC, with an LGBTQ+ Black Femme Lens. "We do not trace or send any type of intervention under any circumstances without consent."

Trans Lifeline

US: 877-565-8860 
Canada: 877-330-6366
Trans Lifeline: Trans peer support for Trans community that’s been "divested from police since day one. Run by and for Trans people."

Wildflower Alliance Peer Support Line

888-407-4515
Wildflower Alliance Peer Support Line: Warmline answered by a trained peer supporters. "We do not trace or send any type of intervention under any circumstances without consent." See hours here.

StrongHearts Native Helpline

Call 1-844-762-8483 or chat online

StrongHearts: 24/7 confidential and anonymous culturally-appropriate domestic and sexual violence helpline for Native Americans. "advocates do not request or record the contact’s identification and/or address."

Thrive Lifeline

Text 24/7: 1-313-662-8209

Thrive Lifeline: Trans-led and operated, focusing on people with intersecting marginalized identities. Does not "engage in non-consensual active rescue."

LGBT National Help Center

National Hotline: 888-843-4564

Coming Out Support Hotline: 888-688-5428

Youth Talkline: 800-246-7743

Senior Hotline: 888-234-7243

LGBT National Help Center: free and confidential support for LGBTQIA+ people and those with questions about sexual orientation and/or gender identity. "We will not contact any authorities or other services or programs on your behalf."

More crisis supports

Some crisis line workers below are mandated to report calls regarding suicide to the police (i.e. "active rescue"). If this is a concern, we encourage you to first ask about their reporting policies before sharing. Please use these resources below with discretion: 

Trevor Hotline for LGBTQ+ youth

NAMI Helpline 24/7

  • Text "NAMI" TO 741741

  • NAMI Helpline to talk to a trained crisis counselor 24/7 

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline

  • 988 

 National Domestic Violence Hotline 

  • (800) 799-7233 

Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network (RAINN) 

  •    (800) 656- 4673 

 Veterans Crisis Line   

  • (800) 273-8255 

National Sexual Assault Telephone Hotline   

  • (800) 656-4673   

Alcoholism & Drug Dependency Hope Line   

  • (800) 622-2255

Lines for Life

  • 800-273-8255

  • Lines for Life: talk to a suicide or substance use specialist. They also offer support for: military & family, senior loneliness, teen-to-teen crisis help, and racial equity support.

These resources have been sourced with gratitude and appreciation from the Inclusive Therapists website.