We are committed to supporting all of our members and communities across all spectrums of diversity. We recognize that our LGBTQIA+ community faces challenges, barriers just like the rest of the population. Alameda County is filled with crisis hotlines and resources for individuals that idenfiy as LGBTQIA+. Scroll down and click on the buttons to see and learn more about these resources!
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The LGBT National Help Center
The LGBT National Help Center
The LGBT National Help Center provides telephone and email peer counseling services as well as factual LGBTQ informaton and local resources for cities and towns nationwide. Callers of all ages are able to talk about coming-out issues, relationship concerns, HIV/AIDS anxiety, safer-sex information and many other topics. The center also maintains a database that contains information with LGBTQ information and local resources across the United States. The center also has a separate Youth Talkline operated by volunteers who are in their teens and early twenties that speak with other teens and young adults up to the age of 25 about LGBTQ issues and concerns. Youth chatrooms and peer support chat is also available online.
SAGE National LGBTQIA+ Elder Hotline
SAGE National LGBTQIA+ Elder Hotline
Operated by the LGBT National Help Center, this hotline offers peer-support to callers who are often very isolated, sometimes still closeted, and in need of a caring, non-judgmental person to talk with. The counselors on the hotline don't give advice; instead, they listen and they care! They are certified in crisis response, offer support without judgement, answer questions factually and confidentially, and provide information about community support resources like healthcare, transportation, counseling, legal services, and emotional support programs.
The Trevor Project
The Trevor Project
The Trevor Project provides a national toll-free suicide hotline for LGBTQ youth. Callers can talk to trained counselors who offer confidential crisis intervention and suicide prevention services for LGBTQ young people under the age of 25 years old as well as find local resources. The Trevor Project provides:
Lifeline Hotline
TrevorText confidential text messaging service
TrevorText confidential, live and secure online messaging service
The Trans Lifeline
The Trans Lifeline
The Trans Hotline is a national toll-free suicide prevention and crisis intervention hotline for transgender individuals. The hotline is staffed by transgender volunteers who connect clients to services and will only call emergency services with the clients expressed consent. They provide the Microgrants program which helps individuals who are not cisgender with financial assistance for name changes on passports, driver's licenses and state identification, court order name changes, and immigration documents. Financial assistance is dependent on the availability of funds.
DEQH LGBTQ+ Helpline for South Asians
DEQH LGBTQ+ Helpline for South Asians
DeQH is the first and only national Desi LGBTQ+ Helpline in the United States. They offer free, confidential, culturally sensitive peer support, information and resources for LGBTQ+ South Asian individuals, families, and friends around the world. They offer a safe and supportive ear for callers to share their concerns, questions, struggles or hopes through conversations with trained South Asian peer support volunteers.
BlackLine
BlackLine
BlackLine provides a space for anonymous peer support, counseling, witnessing, and affirming the lived experiences to folxs who are most impacted by systematic oppression with an LGBTQ+ Black Femme Lens. You do not have to provide any personal information to use the service. All calls remain private and will never be shared with law enforcement or state agencies of any kind. Please call or text for services.
N.A.M.I HELPLINE (NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MENTAL ILLNESS)
N.A.M.I HELPLINE (NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MENTAL ILLNESS)
NAMI Helpline
NAMI Helpline
The NAMI (National Association of Mental Illness) is a free service that offers support, information, referrals and resources to people living with a mental health condition, family members and caregivers, mental health providers and the public.
Helpline staff and volunteers are prepared to answer your questions about mental health issues including:
Symptoms of mental health conditions
Treatment options
Local support groups and services
Education programs
Helping family members get treatment
Programs to help find jobs
NAMI is unable to provide counseling or therapy. NAMI cannot provider specific recommendations for treatment, and cannot provide services like individual casework, legal representation, or other individual advocacy.
NAMI Alameda County: Click on the "NAMI Alameda County" button to learn more!
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
LGBTQ Resource Center of 988 Lifeline
LGBTQ Resource Center of 988 Lifeline
The 988 Lifeline has information and resources for yourself and to help support loved ones who identify as a member of the LGBTQ+ community and struggle with mental health challenges. Click on the "LGBTQ Resources" button to learn more!
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