There's a New Number to Call for Mental-Health Crises: 988.

The 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline dramatically expands the capacity of existing call centers, with the goal of instantaneously connecting people in crisis to mental-health professionals. This will be enough to mitigate most situations, but when more help is needed, dispatchers will send a mobile crisis team made up of mental-health experts and peer-support counselors, people who have recovered from their own mental-health crises and help others in similar situations. The transformative potential of 988 is huge, says Dr. Margie Balfour, chief clinical quality officer at Connections Health Solutions, a nonprofit provider of behavioral-health services in Tucson, Ariz. "This is mental-health crisis care's carpe diem moment.". [Extracted from the article]