In February, the program received an average of 2,100 contacts per day.
The federal government plans to eliminate services for LGBTQ youth who call 988, the national suicide and crisis hotline, according to a Health and Human Services budget draft leaked last week. The budget, first reported by the Washington Post, would go into effect in October if approved by Congress.
Since the hotline’s launch in 2022, callers have been able to speak with counselors trained to work with specific at-risk populations, including LGBTQ youth, who are four times more likely to attempt suicide than their peers.
The service for LGBTQ youth has received 1.3 million calls, texts, or chats since 2022. In February, the program received an average of 2,100 contacts per day.
I have a child with suicidal ideation. This service is a life line for her when our help isn’t enough for her or she wants to talk about something she doesn’t want to talk about with us. These services save lives.
The messaging is quite hard to miss with this one…
RFK should heed his own advice, then.
I used to answer a suicide hotline and most of my teen callers were calling over LGBTQ issues.
They are so close to being literal mustache twirling villains
They are fascists. They want the ‘undesirables’ to die. This is how they believe they can achieve a ‘better’ society. They far surpass cartoonesque-villains I think.
thats higher stats then id expect
