People who call, text, or chat 988 are connected to trained professional counselors who listen, understand, provide support, and connect people to resources.<\/p>\n
In addition to reaching the Lifeline using 988, toll-free number 1-800-273-8255 remains available to people in emotional distress or suicidal crisis.<\/p>\n
The Lifeline\u2019s network of over 200 crisis centers has been in operation since 2005 and has proven to be effective.<\/p>\n
The non-profit administrator of the Lifeline is Vibrant Emotional Health. “For 50 years, Vibrant Emotional Health, formerly the Mental Health Association of New York City (MHA-NYC), has been at the forefront of promoting emotional well-being for all people.”<\/p>\n
See: https:\/\/www.vibrant.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n Created by Vibrant Emotional Health, The Safe Space website offers free resources and tools that provide support in an emotionally safe environment. <\/p>\n See: https:\/\/safespace.vibrant.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n (July 16, 2022) – 988 is the new phone number for the USA’s Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, formerly known as the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. See: https:\/\/988lifeline.org\/ People who call, text, or chat 988 are connected to trained professional counselors who listen, understand, provide support, and connect people to resources. In addition to reaching the\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1196"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1561,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196\/revisions\/1561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Vibrant](\"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/vibrant-orgx480.png\")
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