Suicide Prevention & Crisis Support
You Are Not Alone
Whatever you’re going through right now, you deserve support, compassion, and someone who will listen.
You don’t have to figure everything out today. You don’t need to have the right words. And you don’t have to face this moment alone.
You do not have to carry this moment alone.
NEED SOMEONE RIGHT NOW?
The 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline offers free, confidential support 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
You don’t have to be suicidal to reach out. Support is also available for emotional distress, mental health crises, or concerns about someone you love.
IF YOU ARE IN IMMEDIATE DANGER
If you or someone else is in immediate danger, call 911 or go to the nearest emergency department.
SUPPORTING SOMEONE YOU LOVE
If someone you care about is struggling, you don’t need to have all the answers. Listening without judgment, staying connected, and helping them access professional support can make a difference.
You can also contact 988 for guidance when you’re concerned about someone else.
Crisis Text Line
If talking out loud feels difficult, you can connect with a trained volunteer Crisis Counselor by text.
Text HOME to 741741
Free, confidential support is available 24/7 in the United States.
You Are Not the Only One Struggling
Suicide affects millions of individuals, families, friendships, and communities across the United States. In 2024, 48,824 people in the United States died by suicide. That same year, an estimated:
- 14.3 million adults seriously considered suicide.
- 4.6 million adults made a suicide plan.
- 2.2 million adults reported attempting suicide.
Behind every number is a person, a family, a friendship, and a story. Suicide is preventable. Help is available.
Source: https://www.cdc.gov/suicide/data/
If You Are Worried About Someone
You do not need to have the perfect words.
If you are concerned that someone may be thinking about suicide, it is okay to ask them directly:
“Are you thinking about suicide?”
Asking someone about suicide does not increase suicidal thoughts or suicidal behavior. It can open the door to an important conversation.
Ask. Be There. Help Keep Them Safe. Help Them Connect. Follow Up.
Listen without judgment.
Take what they tell you seriously.
Stay with them or help them get to a safe place if there is an immediate concern.
Help them connect with 988, a mental health professional, trusted loved one, spiritual advisor, or another source of support.
Continue checking in afterward.
Sometimes one of the most meaningful things we can offer another person is our presence.
I Need Ongoing Mental Health Support
Sometimes getting through the immediate crisis is only the beginning.
Ongoing counseling, treatment, peer support, or simply having somewhere to turn regularly can make a meaningful difference.
NAMI — National Alliance on Mental Illness
NAMI offers free peer-led mental health support groups throughout the United States, including groups for people experiencing mental health challenges and groups for their families and loved ones.
Many communities offer both in-person and virtual meetings.
NAMI HelpLine: 800-950-6264
Text NAMI to 62640
The NAMI HelpLine provides information, resources, and support. It is not an emergency crisis line.
Find Mental Health or Substance Use Treatment
SAMHSA can help people and families locate mental health and substance-use treatment services throughout the United States.
SAMHSA National Helpline
1-800-662-HELP (4357)
Free and confidential information and treatment referrals are available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year in English and Spanish.
You can also search for treatment providers in your area through FindTreatment.gov.
I Need Help With More Than My Mental Health
Sometimes emotional distress is connected to very real circumstances.
Housing instability.
Financial difficulties.
Food insecurity.
Medical expenses.
Transportation problems.
Family challenges.
Employment difficulties.
Substance use.
Loneliness.
Grief.
Sometimes reducing even one overwhelming burden can make the next step feel possible.
211
Call 211
211 can connect you with local community resources, which may include housing assistance, food programs, utility assistance, transportation, mental health services, health care resources, financial assistance, and other community support.
You do not have to solve every problem at once.
Start with the one in front of you.
Support for Veterans & Service Members
You served others. You are allowed to ask others to stand beside you now.
Veterans Crisis Line
Veterans, service members, and their loved ones can reach specialized crisis support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Call 988, then press 1
Text 838255
You do not need to be enrolled in VA benefits or VA health care to contact the Veterans Crisis Line.
Vet Centers
Vet Centers provide confidential, community-based counseling and support to eligible Veterans, service members, and their families.
Services may include individual counseling, group counseling, grief and bereavement counseling, support related to military trauma and readjustment, family counseling, and connections to additional services.
Vet Center Call Center
877-927-8387
Available around the clock.
VA Mental Health & Suicide Prevention Support
VA mental health services can help Veterans connect with ongoing mental health care and suicide-prevention support.
Veterans can also contact or visit a VA medical center or Vet Center to learn about available mental health services.
Military OneSource
Military OneSource provides free, confidential short-term counseling and other support for eligible service members and military families.
Counseling may help with stress, grief and loss, relationships, parenting, deployment, transitions, adjusting to military life, and other challenges.
Military OneSource: 800-342-9647
Support is available 24/7.
Military OneSource counseling is not a substitute for emergency crisis care. If you are experiencing a suicidal crisis, call 988 and press 1.
Support for LGBTQ+ Young People
The Trevor Project
The Trevor Project provides free, confidential crisis support specifically for LGBTQ+ young people.
Call: 1-866-488-7386
Text START to 678678
Phone, text, and online chat support are available 24/7.
CONNECT WITH THE TREVOR PROJECT
Grief after suicide can feel different from other forms of loss.
There may be questions without answers.
There may be anger, guilt, confusion, sadness, or emotions that are difficult to put into words.
You may feel that the people around you simply do not understand.
You do not have to carry that grief alone either.
Suicide Loss Support Groups
The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention maintains a directory of suicide-bereavement support groups, including in-person groups, local online groups, and nationwide online groups.
Being with people who understand suicide loss can provide a place where you don’t have to explain why your grief feels complicated.
FIND A SUICIDE LOSS SUPPORT GROUP
The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention’s Healing Conversations program connects people who have lost someone to suicide with trained volunteers who have also experienced suicide loss.
These one-on-one conversations can take place by phone, virtually, or in person.
Sometimes there is comfort in speaking with someone who understands this particular kind of loss from personal experience.
CONNECT WITH HEALING CONVERSATIONS
You Don’t Have to Know Which Resource Is Right
You don’t have to choose perfectly.
You don’t have to explain everything.
And you don’t have to decide whether what you’re experiencing is “bad enough” to deserve help.
Start somewhere.
Make one call.
Send one text.
Tell one person you’re struggling.
Walk into one meeting.
Schedule one appointment.
If the first person, therapist, meeting, or resource isn’t the right fit, please try another.
There are different kinds of help because people need different kinds of support.
If all you can do right now is make it through the next few minutes, start there.
Let someone into this moment with you.
Please Stay
For this moment, you don’t need to know how everything will work out.
You don’t need to solve your entire life tonight.
You only need to take the next step.
Reach for another person.
Make the call.
Send the text.
Tell someone what is happening inside you.
Even if that person is a stranger on the other end of a phone call, text, or message, there are people available to listen and help you through this moment.
You do not have to know what to say.
You can simply say:
“I’m struggling and I need someone to stay with me through this.”
The intensity of what you are feeling can change.
Circumstances can change.
There may be possibilities you cannot see from where you are standing right now.
Give yourself the chance to reach them.
Stay for the next conversation.
Stay for the next morning.
Stay long enough to let someone help carry this with you.
You matter.
And you do not have to find your way through this alone.
About This Resource
Source Collective is dedicated to connection, compassion, and community support. We are not a crisis intervention service or a substitute for professional mental health care. If you are experiencing a mental health crisis, please contact 988 or seek immediate professional assistance.
In Loving Memory
This page is dedicated to our dear family and friends whose lives ended too soon.
Mark A. • Tom K. • Jeremiah B.
You are loved.
You are remembered.
You are deeply missed.
Your lives mattered, and your absence continues to be felt.
Part of the reason this space exists is because no one should have to carry unbearable pain alone.
May this page help someone feel seen, reach for support, and find their way through a moment that feels impossible.
And to anyone reading this who is struggling:
Please stay.
Let someone into this moment with you.
There is still more of your story to be written.
Even if the person you reach for is a stranger on the other end of a phone call, text, or message, someone is available to listen and help you through this moment.
You do not have to know what to say.
You only have to reach out.
May this space honor those we have lost by helping those who are still here feel less alone.
May you know that there are other paths through this moment, even when you cannot see them yet.
The intensity of what you are feeling can change.
Circumstances can change.
A moment that feels impossible to survive does not have to be faced alone.
There are people, resources, and forms of support that can help you find the next step.
Stay for the next conversation.
Stay for the next morning.
Stay long enough to let someone help carry this with you.
You matter.
You are worthy of support.
And you do not have to find your way through this alone.