Mental Health Resources
For Teens…
Active Minds: Supports mental health awareness and education for students.
Child Mind Institute: Dedicated to transforming the lives of children and families struggling with mental health and learning disorders.
JED Foundation: Works to protect emotional health and prevent suicide for our nation’s teens and young adults.
National Association for Children of Addiction (NACoA): Advocates for all children and families adversely impacted by alcohol or drug use in the family.
National Child Traumatic Stress Network: Works to raise the standard of care and improve access to services for traumatized children, their families and communities throughout the United States.
The Trevor Project: The world's largest suicide prevention and crisis intervention organization for LGBTQ youth. TrevorLifeline: 866.488.7386.
To Write Love on Her Arms (TWLOHA): Dedicated to presenting hope and finding help for people struggling with depression, addiction, self-injury, and suicide. TWLOHA exists to encourage, inform, inspire, and also to invest directly into treatment and recovery.
General Mental Health Organizations…
Anxiety and Depression Association of America: Dedicated to the prevention, treatment, and cure of anxiety, depression, OCD, PTSD, and co-occurring disorders through education, practice, and research.
Mental Health America (MHA): MHA is the nation’s leading community-based nonprofit dedicated to addressing the needs of those living with mental illness and to promoting the overall mental health of all.
National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI): The nation's largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to building better lives for the millions of Americans affected by mental illness.
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH): Lead federal agency for research on mental disorders.
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA): Works to to reduce the impact of substance abuse and mental illness on America's communities.
Suicide Prevention…
Crisis Text Line: Anyone who is in an immediate mental health crisis can use this service to text a specialist. The service is free to send and receive text messages, and it operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Anyone can access the service by texting HOME to 741741 to speak to a trained crisis counselor.
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255. The Lifeline provides 24/7, free and confidential support for people in distress, prevention and crisis resources for you or your loved ones, and best practices for professionals.
The Trevor Project: A national 24-hour, toll free confidential suicide hotline for LGBTQ youth. TrevorLifeline: 866-488-7386.