Trump defunding the 988 Suicide Hotlines

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Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration website offline

https://www.samhsa.gov/

Gives a 403 - forbidden message on all their web pages.

This is the agency that provides a substantial amount of funding for the regional 988 suicide prevention and crisis hotlines.

It’s not clear what’s going to happen to the hotlines themselves. My wife works as a crisis counselor on the New York 988 hotline and her company was just informed by SAMHSA that their grant was being terminated. I think they get state funding as well but layoff’s are already happening.

Apparently the Trump Administration has no interest in reducing suicides or substance abuse or helping people in crisis.

Update: the site is accessible from my Android phone using Chrome, but not from my iPhone using Safari. It works from Chrome on my iPhone.

The info about the funding for the company running the NYC 988 hotline is still accurate.