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CAHOOTS (Crisis Assistance Helping Out On The Streets) is a mental-health-crisis intervention program in Eugene, Oregon, which has handled some lower-risk emergency calls involving mental illness and homelessness since 1989. [1] This makes it the earliest, or one of the earliest, Mobile Crisis Teams.
988 (sometimes written 9-8-8) is a telephone number used in some North American (NANP) countries for a suicide prevention helpline.In the United States, it is known as the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline (formerly the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline and the number 1-800-273-8255).
As of 2023, in parts of the US and Canada teams can be called via the new suicide & crisis hotline 988 and some other crisis hotlines. [1] [2] [3] Mobile Crisis Teams can be requested by someone in distress, or by anyone who is concerned that someone might harm themselves or someone else, based on their words and/or actions.
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The Polish Psychological Association maintains a toll-free hotline for adults in a mental crisis. The hotline is available 14:00 – 22:00 at 116 123 (a number that other European Union countries share), and is also available on the website. [60] A mental crisis hotline is maintained by the ITAKA Foundation, available 24/7 at 800 70 2222 (toll ...
Crisis Text Line is a global nonprofit organization providing free and confidential text-based mental health support and crisis intervention by texting HOME to 741741. [1] The organization launched in 2013, and its services are available 24 hours a day throughout the United States, Canada, UK, and Ireland.
A Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) is a police mental health collaborative program found in North America. [1] The term "CIT" is often used to describe both a program and a training in law enforcement to help guide interactions between law enforcement and those living with a mental illness.
A crisis hotline is a phone number people can call to get immediate emergency telephone counseling, usually by trained volunteers. The first such service was founded in England in 1951 and such hotlines have existed in most major cities of the English speaking world at least since the mid-1970s.