If you are holding a family together right now — a child struggling, a parent running on empty, a household where everyone is doing their best and it still doesn’t feel like enough — this is for you.
You do not have to be in crisis to reach out.
That is this year’s theme: “988 Reasons: Your reason is reason enough.” Not your diagnosis. Not the worst night you’ve had. Your reason.
Families wait. We see it constantly. Parents wait because they think the line is for their child, not for them. Caregivers wait because they’ve decided their own exhaustion doesn’t count. People wait until waiting becomes its own emergency.
It does not have to get that bad first. That is the entire point.
The 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline is free and available 24/7 to anyone — call, text, or chat. You can reach out about someone you love. You can reach out for yourself. You can reach out because you don’t quite know what to say yet.
The Family Preservation Alliance is proud to stand with WeHealUS in raising the visibility of 988 — including their campaign asking every elected official to feature the Lifeline on their official website. Sixty seconds of someone’s afternoon means a family searching in the middle of the night finds help instead of a dead end.
Read the campaign: https://www.wehealus.org/about-the-campaign
Save it now, before you need it.
988. Call, text, or chat. 24/7.
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