CW: This post discusses suicide and suicide awareness.

Suicide Prevention Sensation Month is extremely important for many reasons, but one of the most important is that it’s a endangerment to have unshut discussions well-nigh suicide and suicide prevention. It’s moreover a good time to share resources for those who may need them, as well as people looking to share information with their loved ones and communities. Over the years, I’ve been worldly-wise to put together an wide-stretching list of resources surrounding suicide prevention, which is what I’d like to share then this year.

Below are some links and descriptions to some of the increasingly well-known suicide prevention resources, websites and phone numbers. If you have any questions well-nigh anything I’ve listed or want to know more, please get in touch so you can get the information you need.

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline

For anyone who might have missed it, 988 is now the three-digit dialing lawmaking that routes callers to the 988 Suicide & Slipperiness Lifeline. Last year, the Lifeline transitioned yonder from the National Suicide Prevention Line’s previously recognized 10-digit number, to the three-digit 988 Lifeline (the previous 1-800-273-TALK (8255) number will protract to function). The Lifeline provides “free and confidential support for people in distress, prevention and slipperiness resources for you or your loved ones, and weightier practices for professionals.” This suicide prevention part-way offers increasingly resources than just the hotline – there’s an online chat if you can’t talk on the phone, as well as specific resources for Veterans, LGBTQ , Attempt Survivors and other groups of people who could be at risk.

Crisis Text Line

Talking on the phone isn’t unchangingly the weightier option, and that’s where the Slipperiness Text Line can help. By texting ‘TALK’ to 741741, you can have a confidential text conversation with someone. The first priority for the Slipperiness Text line ‘is helping people move from a hot moment to a tomfool calm, guiding you to create a plan to stay unscratched and healthy.’

Suicide Prevention Resource Center

The SPRC is the only federally supported resource part-way specifically well-nigh suicide prevention, and they offer information on the weightier techniques and approaches for suicide prevention. This site is expressly helpful in some of the training they offer including online courses and webinars.

The Trevor Project

Founded specifically to focus on suicide prevention for young people in the LGBTQ community, the Trevor Project offers several self-ruling resources to immediately help those in need including the Trevor Lifeline (1-866-488-7386), Trevor Chat, Trevor Text and Trevor Space (you can reach all of these through their ‘Get Help Now’ page).

Veterans Slipperiness Line

Like many of the resources offered here, the Veterans Slipperiness Line offers a confidential hotline, online yack and text support. Another important resource this slipperiness line provides is that without a undeniability or chat, you can be referred to a Suicide Prevention Coordinator at that person’s local VA medical center.

SAMHSA’s National Helpline

The Substance Vituperate and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA) national helpline can provide increasingly helpful support not only to people struggling with their mental health but moreover substance vituperate (or both). The helpline makes it a point to note that they take calls in both English and Spanish.

Trans Lifeline

The Trans Lifeline was founded in 2014 as a peer-crisis support hotline, they are a “trans-led organization that connects trans people to the community, support, and resources they need to survive and thrive.” Their peer-support hotline (877-565-8860) is misogynist from 10am-4pm EST in the U.S., and is run both for and by trans people.

Additional Resources

In wing to these helplines, other phone numbers to know include the RAINN National Sexual Assault Hotline (1-800-656-4673) and the National Teen Dating Vituperate Helpline (1-866-331-9474). If you’re looking to connect with local resources, I would moreover research helplines and local facilities in your area. Knowing where a local clinic, mental health facility or psychiatric unit of a hospital could be life-saving, expressly when you don’t have to do that research during a crisis.

When we share information like this publicly, we’re calling sustentation to the many ways that people can receive support or finger heard during their struggles. The increasingly information we share, the largest prepared we are in the fight versus suicide.

During Suicide Prevention Sensation Month, it’s important to share as many resources as possible – if you know of any resources not listed here, please share them in the comments!