Adult Resources
When to seek help
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Having Suicidal Thoughts?
If you are feeling suicidal, lonely, or depressed, we are here for you. Whatever the reason, you will get help from a trained volunteer offering nonjudgmental support.
Support for Caregivers
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Beneath the Healing
Beneath the Healing strives to provide safe and secure therapeutic experiences to all, leading with a trauma-informed care to support the inner-healing process.
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Grieving a Loss to Suicide
Grief Support Services that provide peer support to people who have lost loved ones to suicide, also known as suicide loss survivors
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Wildflower Alliance Support Groups
Wildflower Alliance Support Groups
The Wildflower Alliance is a grassroots Peer Support, Advocacy, and Training organization with a focus on harm reduction and human rights.
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The Support Network – Support Groups
The Support Network – Support Groups
We partner with parents and caregivers throughout our region helping them develop effective strategies to become strong and successful advocates for their children, adolescents, or transition-age youth. Services are free of charge.
Get a mentor, Be a Mentor
413Cares.org/mentoring - Connect with organizations looking for mentors and mentees to join their programs and be a part of positive youth-adult relationships.
Help Me Cope
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Drug and Alcohol Rehab for Teens
Drug and Alcohol Rehab for Teens
During this journey, teens are faced with more responsibilities, more decision-making, and more pressure to succeed than ever before. Teens are statistically more likely than the general population to dabble in drug and alcohol use. Learn more.
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Afiya Peer Respite
Prioritize offering an alternative to/supporting people to avoid psychiatric hospitalization and other more invasive/disruptive interventions. 24/7 Peer support available, must be 18+, up to 7-night stay, no insurance needed, FREE
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Healing Together: Support to and through Families
Healing Together: Support to and through Families
In order for families to heal together, we must address the community traumas that we face all too often. The mental health implications of community trauma, such as anxiety or depression, are ever-present and they affect the entire family
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Family Resource Center
Find information to help you support children who are struggling with mental health, behavior or learning challenges.
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PureSpark
Uses social media and our web interface to provide resources and daily coping mechanisms that would otherwise be out of reach for someone who is unfamiliar with the mental wellness system.
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Dee Dee's Cry
DeeDee’s Cry aims to create a space where conversations begin to lift the stigma on suicide and mental health within Black Indigenous People of Color (BIPOC) communities. Offers weekly virtual support groups.
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United Suicide Survivors Storytelling Course
United Suicide Survivors Storytelling Course
This storytelling course, we walk you through a number of exercises that help you understand the art and science of storytelling and the impact it has on us and others.
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Hope Health Grief Support
HopeHealth is committed to provide you with the support you need. We invite you to join any of our many specialty and general groups for adults, children and healthcare providers. See our grief support blogs.
Educate yourself / Learn more
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Supporting Grieving Youth
Provides training resources specially designed for school professionals, including brief video modules on a range of topics. Each video module is accompanied by a handout that summarizes the key points covered in the video.
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Navigating a Child’s Mental Health Journey
Navigating a Child’s Mental Health Journey
You might be noticing your child is struggling in new ways, or that old problems are getting worse. We’ve curated a collection of resources that you can try at home today and organizations that we know can help.
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Letters to Strangers
Dive into race, ethnicity, youth, and mental health, particularly in the context of U.S. history but also featuring concerns and legacies felt by many around the world.
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Support for Caregivers
Whether you're providing a lot of assistance or very little, the information here can help you better understand the issues that you might face.
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Supports to use for Kids, Teens and Young Adults
Supports to use for Kids, Teens and Young Adults
Having a child that is facing mental health symptoms can be incredibly difficult. To make things easier, explore our information, tips and resources for getting your child the treatment, support and accommodations they need
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Mental Wellness Toolkit for Caregivers
Mental Wellness Toolkit for Caregivers
You may be worried about what they are going through but not know how to talk to them or where to go to learn more on your own. We believe that emotional wellness is critical for long-term success, and we are here to help.
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KidsHealth for CAREGIVERS
Is it just a phase or a serious problem? Help your child cope with life's ups and downs, from dealing with divorce to preparing for new siblings. Or find out how to understand your child's behavior, whether it's toddler tantrums or teenage depression.
Resources for Adults working with youth
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Active Minds K-12 Initiatives
Active Minds is mobilizing and empowering youth and young adults to change the conversation about mental health and engage in our proven peer-to-peer approach in their schools
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KidsHealth for EDUCATORS
KidsHealth in the Classroom offers educators free health-related lesson plans for PreK through 12th grade
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Resource for Professionals
We strive to serve as an authoritative hub of support and resources for all issues pertaining to cross-cultural student emotional wellness.
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It’s Better Together
We offer educators and student leaders easy-to access and easy-to use resources, information, and more – all in support of LGBTQ+ students everywhere
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Making your Classroom LGBTQ+ Friendly
Making your Classroom LGBTQ+ Friendly
It’s essential that all classrooms – both in-person and digital ones – be safe and inclusive places for LGBTQ+ students. This is especially important for students who might lack identity-affirming support at home or in their broader community.
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Queer Information and Workshops
Queer Information and Workshops
A leading intersectional mental health activist delivering education and resources to all communities, with an emphasis on the QTBIPOC community.
Text/Talk to Someone Now
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MA Behavioral Health Help Line
MA Behavioral Health Help Line
Call/text 833-773-2445 to be connected directly to clinical help, when and where you need it. It’s free, confidential, and no health insurance is required. Real-time interpretation in 200+ languages, deaf or hard of hearing? Contact MassRelay at 711
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National Suicide Prevention Hotline
National Suicide Prevention Hotline
Call/text 988 or 1-800-273-8255 (TALK) for free & confidential 24/7 emotional support
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Crisis Text Line
Text "Home" to 741741 (US); Texting them will connect you with a trained Crisis Counselor 24/7
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National Domestic Violence Helpline*
National Domestic Violence Helpline*
Call 1-800-799-7233 (SAFE) - Provides free & confidential 24/7 expert support to those experiencing domestic violence or seek information.
Online Chat (top right corner of screen): Available everyday from 7:00am-2:00am (CT)
*PLEASE NOTE: Your computer may be monitored in a situation of domestic abuse.
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National Sexual Assault Hotline
National Sexual Assault Hotline
Hotline: 1-800-656-HOPE (4673) - Connects you with trained staff offering a range of free services.
Online Chat (button center-top of screen): Connects you with help 24/7
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National Eating Disorders Association Helpline
National Eating Disorders Association Helpline
Call 1-800-931-2237 available 11am - 9pm (ET) Mon-Thur and 11am - 5pm (ET) Fri.
Online Chat (click on left green textbox): 9am - 9pm (ET) Mon-Thur and 9am - 5pm (ET) Fri
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National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)
National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI): 1-800-950-6264 (NAMI)
Provides free information, referrals, and support to anyone with a mental illness, anyone living and/or assisting someone with a mental illness, and the general public.
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Call Blackline
Call/Text 800-604-5841 for peer support, counseling, reporting of mistreatment, witnessing and affirming the lived experiences for BIPOC folxs who are most impacted by systematic oppression with an LGBTQ+ Black Femme Lens.
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The Soldiers Project
Call 1-877-576-5343 - Provides free, confidential, and unlimited mental health services for active duty service members or veterans who has served since September 11, 2001. Also provides services to military families.
Gambling
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Get Real About Gambling
For many, gambling is a hobby or pastime. For others, it’s a serious problem. Gambling can make you feel depressed, desperate or angry, and even get you into legal trouble.
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MA Problem Gambling Hotline
What is gambling? When does it cross the line from pastime to problem? Learn to recognize the signs of problem gambling, and get help for yourself or a loved one today.
Substance Use and Addiction
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Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
An agency inside the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services seeking to mitigate negligence of substance abuse and mental illness topics in the United States.
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DrugRehab
Provides information and support to people facing substance use disorders and mental illness.
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Addiction Treatment Services
Provides information and support regarding substance abuse and addiction for teenagers, high schoolers, college students, LGBTQ+ individuals, nurses, veterans, and by U.S. state.
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Addictions.com
Resources for recovery from substance use disorders (especially drug addiction) and co-occurring disorders
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