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Momentum builds for proposed three‐digit crisis phone number
Author(s) -
Canady Valerie A.
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
mental health weekly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7583
pISSN - 1058-1103
DOI - 10.1002/mhw.32036
Subject(s) - hotline , commission , phone , numerical digit , mental health , medical emergency , business , political science , telecommunications , medicine , engineering , psychiatry , finance , arithmetic , linguistics , philosophy , mathematics
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Aug. 15 approved a measure to create a national three‐digit phone number — similar to 911 for emergencies — for a national suicide prevention and mental health crisis hotline system. Support for the new number, 988, is part of a report the FCC sent to Congress recommending that the number will improve access for Americans in crisis. The report was mandated by the National Suicide Hotline Improvement Act of 2018.