Answering the Call, Part 1: America’s New Mental Health Crisis Line

Answering the Call, Part 1: America’s New Mental Health Crisis Line

Posted on February 3, 2022

(CW: Suicide) This is Part 1 of a special series about 988 that explores what it will take for this new nationwide hotline to meet the needs of millions of people struggling with suicide, addiction and mental illness. “We have funded mental health this way for decades. It is pennies here, pennies there. It is out of the goodness of people's hearts that organizations are there to support people, experiencing mental health conditions. I'm hoping policymakers make the investments that we know we need to make, said Hannah Wesolowski, NAMI CAO.