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Dial 988: Help waits on suicide prevention lifeline

Missouri is joining states that make critical calls to the Suicide Prevention Lifeline as easy as 9-8-8. Beginning July 16, anyone who is in mental distress, or knows someone in distress, can dial the three-digit code and get on the line with a suicide prevention specialist, in multiple languages.

Surgeon General issues warning of youth mental health crisis. Here's what you can do

The pain is all around us, persistent and often hard to see. But a youth mental health crisis demands “a swift and coordinated response” to a pandemic that has “exacerbated the unprecedented stresses young people already faced,” says the U.S. Surgeon General.