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Field hopes proposed 988 hotline will transform care access
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.32118
Subject(s) - hotline , legislation , mental health , mental health care , medicine , political science , telecommunications , psychiatry , computer science , law
Members of the mental health community urged Congress to pass bipartisan legislation during a congressional hearing on Oct. 30 that would establish 988 as the three‐digit telephone number for a national suicide prevention and mental health crisis hotline and transform access to mental health care.