Crisis & Mental Health Resources

Crisis Resources

Nationwide & Identity Specific

Suicide & Crisis Lifeline: Call or Text 988

Blackline: (800) 604-5841

Crisis Text Line: Text HOME or HOLA to 741741

Desi LGBTQ Helpline for South Asians: (908) 367-3374

LGBT National Help Center: (888) 843-4564

StrongHearts Native Helpline: (844) 762-8483

TeenLine: Text Teen to 839863

Trans Lifeline: (877) 565-8860

TrevorProject

• Phoneline: (866) 488-7386

• Textline: Text “start” to 678678

Youthline: (877) 968-8491

Veterans Crisis Line: Dial 911, press 1 or text 838255

Warm Lines vs. Crisis Lines: What You Should Know Before You Call

When you're struggling, knowing what kind of support you're reaching for matters — especially if you're someone who has reason to be cautious about who shows up when you ask for help.

What Is A Warm Line?
A warm line is a peer support line — meaning the people who answer have their own lived experience with mental health challenges, emotional distress, or marginalization. Warm lines are not emergency services. They are not designed to assess, diagnose, or intervene. They exist to offer connection, not correction.

You can call a warm line when you're:

• Feeling overwhelmed, anxious, or isolated — but not in immediate danger

• Needing to talk to someone who gets it, without fear of consequences

• Looking for peer support outside of clinical spaces

• Just having a hard night

Warm lines operate from a peer-to-peer ethic: the person on the other end isn't there to evaluate your risk or make decisions about your care. They're there to be present with you.

Confidential. Non-clinical. Peer-led.

• David Romprey Oregon Warmline: (800) 698-2392 (Peer Run in English & Spanish)

• Washington Warm Line: (877) 500-9276 (Peer Run)

What Is A Crisis Line?
A crisis line is a clinical or quasi-clinical service staffed by trained counselors or volunteers who are equipped to respond to acute mental health emergencies. Crisis lines follow mandatory reporting protocols and risk-assessment frameworks — which means they may involve third parties without your consent, including emergency services.

This includes the possibility of police involvement.

If a crisis line counselor determines that you are at imminent risk of harm to yourself or others, they are trained — and in some cases legally required — to initiate a welfare check or emergency dispatch. For many people in our communities — including Black, Indigenous, and people of color; unhoused people; people with histories of incarceration; undocumented people; and trans and nonbinary people — a police response does not equal safety. It can mean re-traumatization, medical institutionalization, or worse.

This is not a reason to never call a crisis line. It is a reason to know what you're calling before you call it, so you can make an informed choice about your own care.