Crisis support

988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline

The federally designated national crisis line — free, confidential support for anyone in suicidal or emotional distress, available by call or text at any hour.

Crisis Text Line

Free, confidential 24/7 crisis support by text for anyone in emotional distress — text HOME to 741741 to reach a trained crisis counselor.

Disaster Distress Helpline

SAMHSA's national hotline for people experiencing distress related to disasters, serving survivors, first responders, rescue workers, and their families — call or text 1-800-985-5990.

Tennessee Federation of Fire Chaplains

Founded in 2002, the Tennessee Federation of Fire Chaplains is a nonprofit whose certified volunteer chaplains provide critical incident crisis intervention, disaster response, REST/rehab trailers, and line-of-duty-death support via the Tennessee LAST team to emergency service departments, personnel, and families statewide. It also established the Tennessee Disaster Mental Health Strike Team (TN Crisis Response Network).

Hawaiʻi CARES 988

Hawaii's statewide 24/7 crisis, mental-health, and substance-use support line brought to you by the State of Hawaii Department of Health and CARE Hawaii Inc. — call or text 988 (or 808-832-3100 / 800-753-6879 outside the 808 area code) or chat online to reach local crisis counselors, who can also dispatch Crisis Mobile Outreach for immediate in-person assistance.

CenterPointe

Nebraska behavioral health organization serving veterans experiencing homelessness and mental illness, substance use, or co-occurring disorders; veterans programs include VA-referred transitional housing for 10 male veterans and a permanent housing project for male or female veterans.

Illinois Concerns of Police Survivors (Illinois C.O.P.S.)

501(c)(3) state chapter that provides resources to help rebuild the lives of surviving family members and co-workers affected by a line-of-duty death as determined by federal criteria. The chapter offers emotional and financial support as well as legal assistance, and helps survivors attend National Police Week, state memorials, trainings, weekends, and retreats, serving all of Illinois.

Indiana Concerns of Police Survivors (Indiana C.O.P.S.)

Statewide 501(c)(3) chapter that provides emotional and financial support to the surviving families and co-workers of Indiana law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty, as determined by Federal criteria. At the onset of a line-of-duty death, trained board members provide survivor peer support and grief counseling and assist with funeral planning, Public Safety Officers' Benefits (PSOB), and national and state memorial enrollment. C.O.P.S. also offers financial support, scholarships, survivor retreats, and National Police Week assistance.

Veterans Crisis Line

Official 24/7 crisis line for veterans and their loved ones, run in partnership with the VA. Dial 988 and press 1, or chat/text.

CopLine

24/7 confidential hotline staffed by retired law enforcement officers, exclusively for active and retired law enforcement and their families.

Responder Health (Safe Call Now)

24/7 peer advocate hotline for all first-responder disciplines and their families — confidential support and referrals from people who've done the job.

First Responder Hope Line (Crisis Center of Tampa Bay)

The First Responder Hope Line works to ensure that our community's first responders have access to a lifeline of support, allowing you to speak confidentially with trained specialists anytime. Call 1-866-4FL-HERO for immediate, confidential support, or submit an online request that team members answer within two business days.

Hero4Hero

Hero4Hero, run by the Southeast Florida First Responder Support Coalition through 211 Broward, is a confidential, anonymous peer support line for first responders and their families in southeast Florida that connects callers to trained peer specialists for crisis counseling and ongoing support.

Frontline Strong Together (FST5)

Statewide Michigan initiative led by Wayne State University's Department of Psychiatry with first-responder unions, offering trained peer supporters, confidential clinical care, wellness training, and a 24/7 crisis and resource line for police, fire, EMS, dispatch, and corrections personnel and their immediate families. Funded by a State of Michigan grant, with regional peer maps and provider directories covering all 83 counties.

Minnesota Firefighter Initiative (MnFIRE)

Statewide Minnesota nonprofit founded in 2016 that advocates for and delivers firefighter wellbeing — the Hometown Heroes Assistance Program provides a MnFIRE Assistance Program (24/7 confidential mental-health hotline, peer support), an up-to-$20,000 critical illness policy, and health/wellness training to all Minnesota firefighters.

Metro CISM Team

Bloomington, MN-based 501(c)(3) (established 1987) providing free, trained peer support to emergency responders in the ten-county Twin Cities region — pre-incident training, on-site support, psychological first aid, critical incident stress debriefings, peer-to-peer support, and continuing-care referrals, staffed by volunteer peers from law enforcement, fire, dispatch, EMS, and medical professions plus chaplains and mental-health professionals.

SafeUT Frontline

Utah app-based support line for people who work in health care, fire/EMS, law enforcement, corrections, and public safety dispatch, and their families, connecting them to licensed mental health professionals at the Huntsman Mental Health Institute (University of Utah Health). Counselors are available by chat or call "24/7, 365 days a year," free and confidential, and are trained specifically for frontline workers. It does not include the tip feature available on the main SafeUT app.

Code 4 Northwest

Volunteer-run, confidential crisis response and referral network for Washington's first responders and their families. Calls are answered by trained call-takers with a first-responder background who connect callers to peer support, counseling and mental health services, substance-use support, and financial or legal guidance.

FDNY Counseling Services Unit

The FDNY Counseling Services Unit (CSU) provides mental health evaluations, direct treatment, referrals, and individual, family, and phone counseling for all FDNY employees — Fire, EMS, and civilians — with satellite locations around the department and a peer program that brings current and retired members into firehouses as a bridge to clinical services.

Cop2Cop

Confidential peer-support helpline for New Jersey law enforcement officers and their families, operated through Rutgers University Behavioral Health Care and staffed by retired officers and licensed clinician peer supporters. Provides peer counseling, clinical assessments, referral to its Police Clinical Network, and critical incident stress management on a 24/7 basis.

New Jersey Fire & EMS Lifeline

Peer-support network for all New Jersey firefighters, EMS personnel, dispatchers, and their families, hosted at the Rutgers University Behavioral Health Care National Call Center. Staffed by active, retired, or former fire/EMS/dispatch peers, it provides free, confidential, personalized support for physical, mental, financial, and social concerns.

Rhode Island CISM

Nonprofit team of trained peers from fire, EMS, law enforcement, nursing, and dispatch providing critical incident stress management, peer support, crisis intervention, and trauma-recovery referrals for Rhode Island's emergency personnel, spanning pre-crisis planning through on-scene support, defusings, debriefings, follow-up, and family support.

Massachusetts State Peer Support Network

Statewide network assigning trained peer-support and Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) teams to every city and town in Massachusetts to provide crisis intervention for public safety personnel after critical incidents.

Commonwealth 911 Peer Support

The first and only peer-support team made up entirely of 911 emergency telecommunicators within the Massachusetts State Peer Support Network — volunteer current and former 911 dispatchers provide debriefings, diffusions, and one-on-one services 24/7/365, supported by clinicians trained in first-responder trauma.

Sussex County EMS CISM Team

Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) peer-support team serving first responders in Sussex County, DE. A network of trained and certified peer debriefers helps emergency responders cope with stressful situations and defuse critical incidents.

Shields Under Fire, Inc.

LaGrange County 501(c)(3) providing peer support groups, one-on-one sessions, referrals for conventional and emergency mental health services, on-scene deployment of Emergency Chaplain Response Teams, and education focused on resilience, awareness, and suicide prevention for first responders, veterans, and their families. It also offers 12-week REBOOT Recovery courses and maintains a 24-hour emergency response line.

Lenape Valley Foundation — FiRST Responder Support Team

A confidential and anonymous peer support line for all first responders and their loved ones, answered by current and former first responders who understand the unique struggles of the job. It is a program of Lenape Valley Foundation, a Bucks County behavioral-health nonprofit.

EMMCO West — Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) Team

A free, confidential Critical Incident Stress Management team of specially trained volunteer peers and mental health professionals from EMS, fire, police, and dispatch that provides defusing, debriefing, and one-on-one peer support to emergency responders after critical incidents. Operated by EMMCO West Inc., a regional EMS council based in Meadville, PA.