Memphis Crisis Center volunteers field calls for new national hotline
Trained volunteers answer calls 24/7 at Memphis Crisis Center. Starting July 16, they also began helping field calls to 988. The National Suicide Hotline Designation Act authorized 988 as a new easy-to-remember number for suicide and mental health crisis. (Ziggy Mack/Special to The Daily Memphian)
Memphis Crisis Center‘s role in the mental health of the community has expanded with the launch of 988, a new national crisis hotline that officially launched July 16.
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Aisling Mäki has spent the better part of two decades writing about Memphis. A former digital journalist for WMC Action News 5 and staff reporter for Memphis Daily News, her work has also appeared in The Commercial Appeal, High Ground News, I Love Memphis, Inside Memphis Business, The Memphis Flyer, Memphis Parent, Memphis Magazine and Tri-State Defender.
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