The FCC is moving forward with a plan to designate 988 as the three-digit dialing number to quickly access the nationwide suicide prevention and mental health hotline.
The Federal Communications Commission is moving forward with a plan to create a new three-digit hotline number, similar to 911, to enable quick access to national suicide prevention resources.
"The Lifeline has become the nation’s mental health and suicide prevention safety net," the report said."In many communities the only immediately available resource for a suicidal person would be an emergency room or the Lifeline and its network of crisis centers." National Suicide Prevention Lifeline counselors answered more than 2.2 million calls and 100,000 online chats last year, according to the FCC's report, which was mandated under President Donald Trump's National Suicide Hotline Improvement Act of 2018. The hotline receives an average of about 188,000 calls and 9,000 crisis chats per day, according to the report.
“There is a suicide epidemic in this country, and it is disproportionately affecting at-risk populations, including our Veterans and LGBTQ youth,” Pai said in a statement. “Crisis call centers have been shown to save lives."
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