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In 2022, 988 was launched as a free mental health crisis hotline. One year later, here's how it's doing. 988 launched as a mental health alternative to 911 a year ago.
The 988 helpline registered 154,585 more calls, texts and chat messages during November 2022 compared to the old national lifeline in November 2021, according to the latest data available.
Since then, 988 has received about 9.1 million calls, texts and chats, according to data published by HHS’s Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).
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). In Canada, it is known as the 9-8-8 Suicide Crisis Helpline.
However, 911 systems were not in widespread use until the 1980s when the number 911 was adopted as the standard number across most of the country under the North American Numbering Plan. [7] [8] The implementation of 911 service in the US was a gradual and haphazard process.
The first use of a national emergency telephone number began in the United Kingdom in 1937 using the number 999, which continues to this day. [6] In the United States, the first 911 service was established by the Alabama Telephone Company and the first call was made in Haleyville, Alabama, in 1968 by Alabama Speaker of the House Rankin Fite and answered by U.S. Representative Tom Bevill.
The first call to 9-1-1 was placed in February of 1968, and ever since, it’s been the number we in the U.S. call for any and all emergencies. In recent years, there have been several cases where ...
The new National Suicide Hotline is going live today in Ohio and the rest of the country. The confidential line has been in the works for more than a year.