CA Youth Crisis Line is the statewide crisis line for youth ages 12-24 and families in crisis. Call, text, or chat 24/7.

• Phone - 800-843-5200
• Text - 800-843-5200
• Chat - Click Chat option on CA Youth Crisis Line web page

300+ languages available upon request.

Professionally trained counselors offer crisis intervention counseling and resource referrals to service providers in the caller's local community.

Web pages

• Home - https://calyouth.org/cycl/

Crisis Support Services of Nevada offers 24/7 crisis intervention assistance with: 

• Suicide prevention - call or text 988
• Crisis in general - call or text 988
• Military family/veteran specific crises - call 988 and press option 1
• Report child abuse - 833-803-1183
• Report vulnerable adult abuse - 775-440-6490
• Sexual Assault Help Line - 775-221-7600
• Substance Use Disorder - 800-450-9530

Web pages

• Home - https://cssnv.org/

Hotline   877-565-8860
As of January 1, 2024, Trans Lifeline’s hotline operating hours will be
Monday through Friday, 10am-6pm Pacific Time

Find info here: https://translifeline.org/hotline

• About the Hotline
• FAQs
• What to Expect When You Call the Hotline
• Family and Friends Line

Trans Lifeline’s Hotline is a peer support service run by trans people, for trans and questioning callers. Their operators are located all over the U.S. and Canada, and are all trans-identified. If you are in crisis or just need someone to talk to, even if it’s just about whether or not you’re trans, please call them. They will do their best to support you and provide you resources.

The Hotline launched shortly after Trans Day of Remembrance of 2014 in response to the epidemic of suicide in the trans community. They believe that some of the best support that a trans person in crisis can have is a fellow member of their community with shared lived experience.

The Gun Violence Restraining Order (GVRO) is a law that allows family members, household members, and law enforcement to work with courts to temporarily remove guns and prevent the purchase of new guns by individuals who pose a significant risk of harm to themselves (including possible suicide) or others.

How to Get a GVRO
Family/Household
https://speakforsafety.org/obtain-a-gvro-family-household/

Law Enforcement
https://speakforsafety.org/obtain-a-gvro-law-enforcement/

The Speak for Safety website also has resources about GVROs: https://speakforsafety.org/resources/

A program of the California Wellness Foundation - https://www.calwellness.org/

Friendship Line California operates as both a warmline and as a crisis hotline.

• Warmline
  • Available for routine phone calls in order to provide support, reassurance, well-being checks, and information and referral for additional care.
• Crisis line
  • Available to older and disabled adults who may be lonely, bereaved, depressed, and at a higher risk for suicide.

Friendship Line CA offers confidential discussions for people ages 60 years and over and adults with mental and/or physical disabilities who may be lonely, isolated, grieving, experiencing depression, anxiety and/or thinking about death or suicide. Provides emotional support over the phone for incoming calls and for regularly scheduled outgoing calls. 1-800-971-0016

Websites:

• Friendship Line California - https://www.ioaging.org/friendship-line-california

Free virtual counseling through USC Telehealth based at the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work. Provides services in English and Spanish for people ages 12 and older who live in California. Client and therapist connect from separate locations via a computer, laptop, tablet, or smartphone. Serves anyone in California age 12 and older. There is typically a waitlist of up to several months. The agency provides 8 counseling sessions.

Can provide suicide prevention resources and offer support to people who have lost a loved one to suicide.

Services include:

• adolescent/youth counseling
• bereavement counseling
• general counseling to assist with mild to moderate psychosocial issues such as:
  • anxiety
  • anger
  • grief and bereavement
  • depression
  • post traumatic stress
  • coping with serious illness
  • financial pressures
  • improving self-confidence
  • marital problems
  • school and work pressures

 
APPLICATION PROCEDURE

• Call or sign up online for initial registration
  • 866-740-6502
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BeWellLine provides free non-clinical social, emotional, and crisis support via phone or chat to Californians age 12 and older. Services are also available in Spanish.

In addition to support for adults, BeWellLine counselors are well trained to help middle school, high school, and college students with situations such as family conflicts, homelessness, isolation, problems with friends, bullying, school pressures, suicidal ideation, navigating the online world, academic and financial pressures, or mental health issues. 

Counseling available via chat on website at https://www.bewellline.com/ or by phone at 866-649-0911.  

The BeWellLine emotional support line is part of the CalHOPE Connect initiative which is a partnership of the California Mental Health Services Authority (CalMHSA) and Alter Health Group.

Web pages:

• Home page - https://www.bewellline.com/

The Grief Recovery Institute (GRI) evidence-based Grief Recovery Method helps people move through grief resulting from losses of many kinds. Losses may include death, divorce, end of relationships, job or career changes, moving, and many more. The process is detailed in The Grief Recovery Handbook and other GRI publications and workshops. The program can be done by using the book on its own, or with a group. The Grief Recovery Method is an educational, action-based program. It is not counseling or therapy. It is also not an ongoing support group.
 
GRI offers a free downloadable informational e-book, publishes several books, offers workshops, and trains Grief Recovery Specialists internationally.
 

Web pages

• Home - https://www.griefrecoverymethod.com/
• Free e-book - https://offers.griefrecoverymethod.com/guide-for-loss-ebook1642023353451

The Jason Foundation is dedicated to the prevention of the “Silent Epidemic” of youth suicide through educational and awareness programs that equip young people, educators/youth workers and parents with the tools and resources to help identify and assist at-risk youth.
JFI believes that awareness and education are the first steps to prevention. They want to establish a Triangle of Prevention by providing students, parents and teachers the tools and resources to help identify and help at-risk youth. This is accomplished through a curriculum unit for students and informational seminars for teachers and parents. The programs provide resources to accomplish this goal. The materials are easy to use and are intended to provide educational information. There is no intent to diagnose or treat suicidal ideation. JFI’s intention is to empower youth, educators and parents to help recognize when young people are in pain and know to get professional help involved as soon as possible. The Jason Foun… [read more]

Death by suicide leaves behind a wake of emotions and challenges that complicate an already painful grieving process. Suicide loss survivors have a safe space within TAPS to remember, honor, and grieve their loved one's entire story. TAPS programming and resources provide gentle, understanding support for working through the complicated emotions associated with this type of loss.

https://www.taps.org/suicideloss

TAPS POSTVENTION MODEL
The word “postvention” may be new for many of us. Postvention is the act of caring for those who are bereaved by suicide. It was created because it became evident that losing a loved one to suicide is a different kind of journey. For more than a decade, TAPS has developed and refined a highly effective best-practice Postvention Model. This model provides a roadmap to move from surviving to healing to thriving after loss. It was created based on best practices in trauma, grief, and peer-to-peer support and was refined and tweaked by thousands of survivo… [read more]