In those years, it placed access to transgender activists at children’s fingertips, enabling youth who text “PRIDE” to 988 or press option “3” after dialing the main hotline to connect ...

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 ...

The 988 hotline already is live nationwide — those experiencing suicidal thoughts or another mental health crisis can call or text the number — but the scheduled launch of the Allentown call ...

The lawmaker’s messages to the hotline included “I have a gun to my head” and “I’m suicidal with a gun to my head.” ...

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 ...

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 ...