IMPORTANT PHONE NUMBERS

Mental Health, Health, Suicide Prevention and Addiction Resources

988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline 9-8-8 - call text or chat if you or someone you know has thoughts about suicide

Mobile Crisis 2-1-1 is a statewide, community based and family supportive clinical intervention service for children & adolescents experiencing a behavioral or mental health crisis. Mobile Crisis provides rapid emergency crisis stabilization for children and their families as well as short-term follow-up care and connection to other services. Call 2-1-1 and ask for mobile crisis.

A child can receive Mobile Crisis services in:

• Their home

•  At school

•  At their doctor’s office

•  In the Emergency Department (ED)

• Any other community setting

•  Arrive within 45 minutes or less

•  Convenient Hours: Mobile hours are 6am-10pm M-F; 1pm-10pm weekends/holidays.

Available by phone all other hours

https://www.TurningPointCT.org -  Mental Wellness Website for and by CT youth who want to chat, text, talk about young people in recovery from mental health and substance use issues. "We know what it’s like to feel alone, stressed, worried, sad, and angry. We’ve lived through the ups and downs of self-harm, drugs and alcohol, and the struggle to find help."

• Planned Parenthood of CT https://www.plannedparenthood.org/planned-parenthood-southern-new-england

(birth control, STDs, HIV/AIDs testing, reproductive care, abortion

https://www.plannedparenthood.org/online-tools/chat  

1-800-230-PLAN

• Toivo - Center for Holistic Healing Hartford, CT

Anti-Violence and Safety Resources

CT Alliance to End Sexual Violence 24 Hour Hotline:

1-888-999-5545 ENGLISH (Call or Text)

1-888-568-8332 ESPAÑOL

CT Coalition Against Domestic Violence (intimate partner violence, family violence) https://www.ctsafeconnect.org/

Help with Basic Needs

• United Way health and human services hotline 2-1-1 (help with food, child care, housing, fuel, other basic needs) https://www.211ct.org/