Innovative support programs offer hope to an average of 43,000 people a month in crisis. SAMHSA and other mental health groups are using National Suicide Prevention Week to encourage people in crisis & those who are concerned about someone possibly at risk for suicide to use the Lifeline & the many lifesaving services it offers. Using state of the art technology and a network of 135 crisis centers across the country, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline can immediately link a caller seeking help to a trained counselor closest to the caller's geographic location - 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Calls to the Lifeline and the counseling services provided are confidential.
Read more at: http://www.samhsa.gov/newsroom/advisories/0809092501.aspx
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