‘988 Is for Everyone’: Inside the New Mental Health Hotline

In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt

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4.6 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

988 is now the 911 of mental health emergencies. The three-digit number will connect you to a crisis call center in your area and a trained counselor to talk, text, or chat with. Andy speaks with Wendy Martinez Farmer and Dr. Linda Henderson-Smith from Beacon Health Options about how 988 reimagines the National Sucicide Prevention Hotline to be more accessible and inclusive, and why you don’t have to be suicidal to call. Suicide attempt survivor and crisis counselor Shelby Rowe opens up about her own mental health journey and explains why resources vary community by community.

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Learn more about 988: https://988lifeline.org/current-events/the-lifeline-and-988/
Read about how the Kennedy-Satcher Center for Mental Health Equity and Beacon Health Options’ plan to embed equity into the 988 hotline: https://kennedysatcher.org/impact-areas/policy/988_policy_brief/
Learn how a robust crisis infrastructure for behavioral health can provide better treatment, save lives, and reduce costs: https://s29360.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/220401-GROWTH-Crisis-WhitePaper-2022-EN-Final-1.pdf
Find vaccines, masks, testing, treatments, and other resources in your community: https://www.covid.gov/
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0:00.0	Mental health challenges are affecting people in the US at high levels, particularly among
0:05.0	adolescents.
0:06.0	At CVS Health, mental health is just as important as physical health.
0:11.0	That's whether making mental, well-being services more accessible, less complicated, more
0:15.4	convenient, and more inviting.
0:18.0	CVS Health is doing this by creating new programs, encouraging care to discussions, and providing
0:23.2	increased access to digital tools and telehealth services.
0:27.0	CVS Health is there to help.
0:31.0	Learn more at CVS Health.com.
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1:27.2	Welcome to the bubble.
1:28.2	This is your host, Andy Slavitt, Friday, July 15th.
1:32.6	Tomorrow represents the potential watershed day in the country.
1:35.9	A new set of mental health resources are going to be available to the public.
1:39.6	We're going to talk about this on the show and get a little bit into what it is that American
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