Mental Health Programs
Sometimes you need extra help. Here is a collection of nonprofits and other great mental health programs that can be utilized. Remember if you are in crisis please call your emergency number (988 for the US), and know you are not alone. See a resource we're missing? Please contact us so we can add it!
Mental Health Crisis lines
USA National Mental Health Crisis - 988*
US Veterans Mental Health Crisis- 988 then 1
Global checkpoint: find any important number, wherever you are.
American Psychological Association: https://www.apa.org/topics/crisis-hotlines
*Please note that welfare checks can be requested by 988 operators, resulting in forced hospitalizations, although less than 2% of calls do. Read NPR's coverage.
If this is a concern for you, please seek other helplines that do not have police welfare checks.
Stop Soldier Suicide
Nonprofit for all US military. (active, reserves, national guard, retired, dishonorably discharged). Online form and number for intake. Offers long-term suicide prevention therapy and trauma-informed telehealth care. Not a crisis support line but long term, free care.
Wounded Warrior
"Our programs are here to support you at every step, so let’s get started. Take a look at our veteran support programs in the WWP Program Directory, and get the right support for where you’re at right now."
Warrior chat (M-F 9am-5pm)
Veterans Gaming and Mental Health Mission
"Through gaming and community, we proactively take measures to ensure that security and fallbacks are in place for those times when we feel weak or do fall. Camaraderie is the key to healing. We promote the idea that its completely acceptable to rely on your fellow brother or sister sometimes. IT IS OKAY TO TALK ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH!"
https://vgmhmission.org/
Discord: https://discord.gg/vgmh
Trevor Project
"The Trevor Project is an American nonprofit organization founded in 1998. Focused on suicide prevention efforts among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning youth, they offer a toll-free telephone number where confidential assistance is provided by trained counselors."
https://www.thetrevorproject.org/get-help/ (chat or text)
Blackline
"Call BlackLine® provides a space for peer support, counseling, reporting of mistreatment, witnessing and affirming the lived experiences for folxs who are most impacted by systematic oppression with an LGBTQ+ Black Femme Lens.
Call BlackLine® prioritizes BIPOC
(Black, Indigenous, and People of Color). By us for us."
https://www.callblackline.com/
1 (800) 604-5841
Take This
"Our Mission is to decrease the stigma, and increase the support for, mental health in the game enthusiast community and inside the game industry.
Our Vision is a game community that welcomes and supports people experiencing mental health challenges, and that recognizes the humanity and mental health of game creators."
https://www.takethis.org/
TherapyDen
"We are an online community of mental health professionals seeking to make the experience of finding a therapist easy. "-Find different types of therapists (couples, individual, child, group), check who accepts your insurance, and what specialties are available in your region.
https://www.therapyden.com/
Trans Lifeline
"Trans Lifeline is a peer support and crisis hotline 501 non-profit organization serving transgender people by offering phone support and microgrants. It is the first transgender crisis hotline to exist in the United States as well as Canada. It is also the only suicide hotline whose operators are all transgender."
https://translifeline.org/hotline/
Canada (877) 330-6366
Games and Online Harassment Hotline
"The Games and Online Harassment Hotline is a free, text message-based, confidential emotional support hotline. We created the Hotline specifically for the gaming community. Whether you’re a player, a developer, a streamer, a competitor — any part of this community —we’re here for you, whether that means offering emotional support or finding the referrals and resources that you need."
Text Support to 23368 - Free text-based emotional support, 3-7pm PT every day (US only)
Victim Connect National Hotline
"The VictimConnect Resource Center is a referral helpline where crime victims and survivors can learn about their rights and options confidentially and compassionately."
Chat online: https://victimconnect.org/get-help/talk-to-someone/
9 am - 5pm ET English/Spanish (200+ other languages available with translators) 1-855-484-2846
CA 211 Hotline
"2‑1‑1 is a free telephone number providing access to local community services.
2‑1‑1 is available in multiple languages, allowing people access to information and to obtain referrals for resources such as physical and mental health, housing, utility, food, transportation, employment assistance, and suicide and crisis interventions. 2‑1‑1 also provides disaster preparedness, response, and recovery during declared emergencies."
more information about California 211 lines by county: https://www.icarol.info/ResourceView2.aspx?org=2265&agencynum=68869729
Hope for Wellness
"The Hope for Wellness Helpline is available to all Indigenous people across Canada. Experienced and culturally competent counsellors are reachable by telephone and online ‘chat’ 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
Both telephone and online chat services are available in English and French. Telephone support is also available upon request in: Cree; Ojibway (Anishinaabemowin); Inuktitut.
(Note: Supports in Cree, Ojibway, and Inuktitut are not available 24/7, so you may need to call in to find out the next time that a language-speaker will be available.)"
Website: https://www.hopeforwellness.ca/
Youthspace Text
"Open 6pm-Midnight PST, 365 days a year, within Canada
Youthspace.ca is a free online crisis & emotional support chat service for youth under 30 across Canada. We listen without judgement, and keep chats confidential & anonymous.
If you feel unsafe or have already done something to hurt yourself, please call 9-1-1."
UK Childline
"Childline is here to help anyone under 19 in the UK with any issue they’re going through. You can talk about anything. Whether it’s something big or small, our trained counsellors are here to support you. Childline is free, confidential and available any time, day or night. You can talk to us:"
Website: email, chat online, Sign BSL https://www.childline.org.uk/get-support/
Phone (Toll Free for UK) : 0800 1111
Safe in Our World
The main goal of Safe In Our World is to create and foster worldwide mental health awareness within the video game industry; to eliminate the stigma surrounding mental health, to make it a natural topic of discussion, and to promote the dialogue surrounding mental health so people are not afraid to reach out for help if they need it.
Safe in our world's resource list: https://safeinourworld.org/find-help/
SAMHSA
"The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) is the agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that leads public health efforts to advance the behavioral health of the nation and to improve the lives of individuals living with mental and substance use disorders, and their families."
Treatment resources from SAMSHA- https://www.samhsa.gov/find-treatment
NAMI
"NAMI provides advocacy, education, support and public awareness so that all individuals and families affected by mental illness can build better lives."
Call or text the NAMI Helpline at 800-950-6264
chat with Nami M-F, 10 a.m. - 10 p.m.
Boca Treatment Center
private recovery treatment center.
"Boca Recovery Center is a substance use disorder and co-occurring mental health treatment facility established in 2016 in Boca Raton, Florida."
What is Addiction – Causes, Symptoms & Evidence-Based Treatment
Depression & Addiction: Signs, Symptoms & Treatment
https://bocarecoverycenter.com/addiction/depression/