US SUICIDE PREVENTION HOTLINE IS CHANGING ITS NUMBER
Taking effect July 2022, the US Suicide Prevention Hotline will change from 800-273-8255 to the three digit code of 988. Especially with families and communities reeling from back to back tragedies, it is super important to share this information!
Repeat: Starting July 2022, the US Suicide Prevention Hotline will be 988
Important add-ons, though, as someone who’s done policy work on this:
- It’s July 16, not just the start of July.
- 988 can not only be used as the suicide hotline, but for any sort of mental health or substance use crisis situation. As opposed to 911, the goal of 988 is that when dispatch is necessary, you’ll be met with a trained crisis response team rather than the police. The police will only be involved if there is an immediate threat to safety, which has almost never occurred in pilot programs - in one of the most well-known, Denver STAR, (which a lot of y’all seem to be familiar with) the police has actually never been called for backup. We’re hoping that this is going to get more individuals directed towards help rather than a prison cell.
Uhm yeah I’ll add more stuff if I can think of anything.
Thank you for the added information. Reblog this version as well, folkz.
(via dollsahoy)
group howl. who wants to go into the woods and do a group howl w me
(via followthebluebell)
i do not care if i reblog something ive reblogged before my memory is weaker than the lead in a mechanical pencil
If you signed up for my show you signed up for some reruns too
(via somecunttookmyurl)
Holy Fuck, what a terrible day I had, you guys! :D
I would love some kind of immersively comfortable media to vanish into like a kelpie
[detail] Futagi Seihō (1884–1954), Decorative Box with ‘Bird of Paradise’ (Gokurakuchō kazari bunko) [detail], c. 1942, lacquered wood with shell inlay and silver rims, 7 1/8 x 15 x 10 7/8 inches. Levenson Collection.
(via 23-tiny-wishes)
You weren’t living alone you were living with me
And yeah you bought a sword but you also got straight out of bed and tried to strangle me
And you “ didn’t need it anymore” because you couldn’t get on a plane with it and you were abandoning me to $3,000 of debt and despair and you were not planning to even tell me about it
Glad the fucking sword helped though

