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Call to Mind
Jessica Bari

988: A Call for Crisis Care

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988: A Call for Crisis Care is a new special from Call to Mind.
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On July 16, the federal government transitioned the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline to an easy-to-remember three-digit number. 988 is a resource that anyone can call, text or chat for mental health support. Crisis counselors are trained to address a range of mental health emergencies from depression and anxiety, to suicide ideation and substance use disorders.

What actually happens when someone dials 988? How is the Lifeline serving as a tool to improve mental health emergency response? And is there a path between mental health emergencies and recovery?

MPR News shares “988: A Call for Crisis Care,” a broadcast special from Call to Mind that explores the state of mental health crisis response, and asks how crisis care can be improved.

It’s hosted by Kimberly Adams, a host and senior correspondent for APM’s Marketplace who covers mental health, politics, business and the economy for American Public Media from Washington DC.

Guests:

  • Danielle Belton is editor-in-chief of HuffPost.

  • Emmy Betz, MD, MPH is professor of emergency medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.

  • Christine Crawford, MD, MPH associate medical director of National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) and assistant professor of psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine.

  • Arthur Evans Jr., PhD is a clinical and community psychologist and CEO & executive vice president of the American Psychological Association

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