IN A LIFE THREATENING SITUATION, CALL 911.
ORANGE COUNTY RESOURCES
Suicide Crisis Line (Didi Hirsch):1-877-727-4747
Trained counselors are from the
Didi Hirsch Community Mental Health Center
Suicide Prevention Center
Centralized Assessment Team: 1-866-830-6011 or 714-517-6353
C.A.T.
24/7 Service - This is a team designed to provide evaluations for involuntary hospitalizations (5150), assist police, fire and social service agencies in cases of psychiatric emergencies, provide linkage to appropriate services or provide information and referrals to family members or significant others for community resources. C.A.T. will be assisted by the police / sheriff when called to a scene for safety purposes.
Evaluation and Treatment Service (ETS): 714-834-6900
24/7 Triage service - Information Specialists are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
NEW-HOPE: 714-New Hope or 714-639-4673
Telephone counseling sponsored by the Crystal Cathedral Ministries in Garden Grove, CA.
Medi-Cal Access Line for OC Mental Health (24 hours): 1-800-723-8641
A Pacific Care Behavioral Health Company contractor to the OC Health Care Agency has an access line for Orange County Medi-Cal members seeking mental health services.
Survivors of Suicide (SOS) in Orange County
SOS is a support for suicide survivors that meets the 1st and 3rd Sundays of every month from 1:30 to 3:00 at the Crystal Cathedral in the Tower of Hope, Garden Grove, California on the second floor. The meetings are open and it is a place to share experiences with people that will just listen and that have shared the same loss. For more info call Jeri Livinstone, facilitator, at 714-539-1429 from 9am to 9pm but please note that this is not a hotline number.
LOS ANGELES COUNTY RESOURCES
Los Angeles County Dept. of Mental Health Access: 1-800-854-7771
NATIONWIDE RESOURCES
1-800-Suicide(1-800-784-2433)
A national hotline number where calls will be answered by trained counselors who will give local referral numbers.
National Suicide Prevention Life: 1-800-273-TALK (8255)
National suicide prevention and intervention telephone resource funded by the Federal Government. |
