Resources

Finding Help in Texas

• 2-1-1

• 2-1-1 Texas committed to helping Texas connect with the services they need including food, housing, employment, health care, counseling and more

• Contact: via phone dial 2-1-1 or internet www.211texas.org 

• Texas Youth Hotline 

• Contact: call or text 1-800-989-6884; 24 hours a day, 7 days a week

• Free, confidential  services to youth and families in crisis 

• Offering assistance in finding a counselor, safe shelter, legal information, other local referral information, or simply someone to talk to 

• DFPS Texas Youth Helpline - Confidential Crisis Hotline (state.tx.us)

• Texas Abuse Hotline 

• Contact: 1-800-252-5400 for any urgent situations; nonurgent situations should be reported via Welcome (txabusehotline.org)

• If you need to call the Texas Abuse Hotline and are deaf and equipped with a Teletypewriter, call Relay Texas by dialing 7-1-1 or 1-800-735-2989

• For reporting abuse, neglect, or exploitation of children, the elderly, or people with disabilities

National Help

• 9-1-1

• For serious emergencies call 9-1-1 for immediate care 

• 9-8-8

• Suicide and crisis lifeline is a national network of local crisis centers that provide free and confidential emotional support to people in suicidal crisis or emotional distress 24 hours a day, 7 days a week within the United States

• Lifeline (988lifeline.org)

• The Trevor Project: Helpline for Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Youth 

• 1-866-488-7386

• LGBT Youth National Hotline 

• 1-800-246-7743

• National Runaway Safeline 

• 1-800-786-2929

• National Domestic Violence 

• Hotline (800) 799-7233, (800) 787-3224 (TTY)