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Crisis Text Line provides free 24/7 text-based mental health support and crisis intervention from trained volunteers. Available to anyone in the USA in English or Spanish.

• ENGLISH - Text HELLO to 741741 or text to 443-SUPPORT in WhatsApp for English
• ESPAÑOL -Text HOLA to 741741 or text to 442-AYUDAME in WhatsApp for Spanish

We can help with any kind of mental health crisis, including but not limited to:

• Suicide / Suicidal Thoughts
• Self Harm
• Depression
• Stress/Anxiety
• LGBTQ Issues
• Grief
• Eating Disorders
• Physical Abuse
• Emotional Abuse
• Sexual Abuse
• Isolation/Loneliness
• Relationship Issues
• Bullying

Children's System Of Care (CSOC) has a Crisis/Child Welfare Services (CWS) Report Line to meet the special needs of children and youth who may be at risk, and their families, in Placer County.

CHILDREN EMERGENCY SERVICES - Placer County Crisis & Emergency Services
If your life is in danger or you need to report an emergency situation, call 911.

A telephone call can bring help in a crisis. For at-risk children in emergencies and crisis situations, a special 24-hour, 7-day a week, response program is available by calling Family and Children's Services: 916-872-6549 or toll free 866-293-1940.

CSOC Services

• 24-hour response for minors at risk of abuse or neglect
• Adoptions and Foster Home placement and licensing
• Behavioral and Mental Health Services - https://www.placer.ca.gov/2052/Childrens-Mental-Health-Services
• Child Welfare services
• Foster youth educational assistance (Placer County Office of Education) - https://www.placercoe.org/Pages/PCOE/Home.aspx
• Placer County …

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DEWITT WELLNESS CENTER

Due to COVID-19, the Dewitt Wellness Center remains closed to clients and community guests however, the Service Center is open Monday-Friday 1:00-5:00 pm. They are providing services and resources for those seeking housing options.

The Dewitt Wellness Center is a Peer-run program where guests, consumers, and community members find a fun, supportive, and informative environment. Guests of the Wellness Center find assistance with housing resources and get help getting connected to mental health, substance use, and other services offered in the Adult System of Care and in the community.

The Wellness Center offers a wide variety of support groups, classes, and activities ranging from Men's Support Group, Ready to Rent classes, Smoking Cessation, to Walking Groups and art classes. Groups and classes are designed and facilitated by Peer Advocates and County staff to meet the needs of the Wellness Center guests.

AFSP teaches schools, communities, and workplaces how to prevent suicide.

AFSP was founded on research, and develops evidence-based programs using the latest science on suicide prevention.

Their programs include training in mental health and suicide prevention for schools.

https://afsp.org/our-work/education/

Offers a free 12 week educational program that helps family members and friends understand mental illness symptoms, basics of brain biology, problem solving, medications, empathy, communication skills, self-care, rehabilitation, fighting stigma, and advocacy.

NAMI can provide suicide prevention resources.

 

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

Offers a Grief Support Group in a safe and supportive environment. We'll help you develop insight on how to endure the loss of a loved one, ease the burden of grieving alone, and develop skills for adjusting to a new life situation.

The meetings are free and open to any community member who has endured the loss of a loved one, including a loved one lost to suicide, and is seeking support and education.


 

Personal Support for Survivors of Suicide Loss

Healing Conversations – formerly known as the Survivor Outreach Program – gives those who have lost someone to suicide the opportunity to talk with our experienced volunteers. These AFSP volunteers, who are themselves survivors of suicide loss, offer understanding and guidance in the weeks and months following a suicide death.

Available in person, on the phone or by video chat, volunteers are familiar with the isolation that so often accompanies a death of this kind, and are able to show suicide loss survivors a way forward into a world of support, by creating an opportunity for the newly bereaved to speak openly with, and ask questions of, someone who has been there too.

When someone contacts AFSP to request a conversation, AFSP will ask them some questions about their loss, so that they may match them with a suitable volunteer who has experienced a similar loss. Their peer support volunteer will contact them to schedule a conversation… [read more]

This resource is eligible for electronic referral. Healing through Loss & Grief is a support group for anyone who has experienced a significant emotional loss whether that loss is due to death (including suicide), divorce, or other life events, recent or past. Provides an opportunity to meet with other grievers, both men and women, in a safe, caring and supportive environment. The goal is to assist each other in the healing through grief process. Features weekly meetings and assignments.

For more information contact Maureen Gerecke at FREED 530-477-3333 or maureen@freed.org. Also see https://www.lossandgrief.org/ (as of July 2022 website is being refurbished). Offered twice a year, usually in January and August; sessions are 13 weeks. The first two weeks are open to anyone, then the group is closed for the remaining 10-12 weeks for those who wish to continue the process.

Jan-Apr 2023 group dates
WHAT: Healing through Loss and Grief group
WHEN: Thursday, January 19 through Th… [read more]

IMAlive is a live online network that uses instant messaging to respond to people in crisis.
https://www.imalive.org/