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Opinion: 988 line for suicide calls can help shift from policing to mental health service

Opinion: 988 line for suicide calls can help shift from policing to mental health service Government funding needed to support 2022 rollout By Dipika Cheung and Rachel Larkin    | March 13, 2021 | 4:54 am “I kinda wanna try to stay alive since you were nice enough to hear me out. It kinda gives me another reason to think people are still good,” a teenage caller said to one of EveryMind’s specialists on the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline after nearly two hours of emergency counseling.  The caller is a suicide attempt survivor. She had a plan to kill herself at the beginning of the call. But for the existence of Lifeline, she could have easily taken the pills she had scavenged that night, or her family could have discovered her plan. It is not hard to imagine that somebody would have eventually called 911. 

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How Southern states are addressing mental health crisis over COVID

Calls have not stopped at the state crisis line run by Mental Health of America in Greenville, South Carolina. Their team of trained volunteers has handled more than 30,000 calls from people across the state in crisis or seeking help managing everyday stress and anxiety over the past year.   Calls are lasting longer and are coming in from people of all ages. “The stress levels of our callers are extremely high,” said Susan Smyre Haire, the director of community engagement and development at the organization. Haire expects that call volume “to increase exponentially.” The call center received grant funding from Vibrant Emotional Health, the nonprofit administrator of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, to expand services from city to state as the pandemic took hold last year. 

How Southern states are addressing mental health crisis over COVID

How Southern states are addressing mental health crisis over COVID
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