Resource Library

Local

• New Mexico Crisis and Access Line: This page has multiple ways to reach out for help, including via phone call, text, and a specially designed messaging app.

• Mental Health—City of Albuquerque

• UNM LGBTQ Resource Center

• The Mind Research Network: This page has resources for a variety of mental health-related issues, including addiction and homelessness.

• Breaking the Silence New Mexico: This page has additional hotlines to the ones listed above.

• BernCo Department of Behavioral Health Suicide Prevention

• BernCo Department of Behavioral Health Services Mobile App: Mental health resources; download for iOS or Android

• New Mexico Alliance for School-Based Health Care

Helpline Quick Links

• New Mexico Crisis and Access Line: phone numbers and web resources including the NMConnect mobile app for iOS and Android

• Crisis Text Line: send a text, a FB message, or a WhatsApp message

• The Trevor Project "Get Help" page: Talk to a trained crisis counselor via phone call, text, or online message.

24/7 Phone Lines

• New Mexico Crisis Line: 1-855-NMCRISIS (662-7474)

• Agora Crisis Line: 855-505-4505

• Suicide Prevention Hotline (en español): 1-800-273-TALK (8255)

• The Trevor Project (LGBTQ+): 1-866-488-7386

National

• SAMHSA: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration: An agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that leads public health efforts to advance the behavioral health of the nation.

• SAHM: Society for Adolescent and Health Medicine: This page has resources specifically for adolescents and young adults.

• Youth.gov's Shared Resources page: Provides a long list of additional resources.

• National Institutes of Health: Emotional Wellness Toolkit

• The Trevor Project: The Trevor Project is the world’s largest suicide prevention and crisis intervention organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQ) young people.

• We R Native: A group that provides a comprehensive health resource for Native youth, by Native youth, providing content and stories about the topics that matter most to them.

• We R Native's suicide resources

• Crisis Text Line: Multiple ways to chat with a trained Crisis Counselor about a variety of topics, including Coronavirus, and through a variety of platforms, including text and FB Messenger.

• The Jed Foundation: A nonprofit that protects emotional health and prevents suicide for our nation’s teens and young adults.

• The Jed Foundation's resources to help a friend

• Erika's Lighthouse: An organization that creates upper elementary, middle school and high school mental health, depression and suicide awareness programs so educators, families and teens can create safe spaces to learn about mental health, letting students know they are never alone, and there is somewhere to turn. Teen page, Toolbox page

• American Foundation for Suicide Prevention: A voluntary health organization that gives those affected by suicide a nationwide community empowered by research, education and advocacy to take action against this leading cause of death.

• AFSP's suicide prevention resources

• The Jason Foundation: ways for teens to get involved

• Reducing LGBTQ Adolescent Suicide (RLAS): Implementing School Nursing Strategies to Reduce LGBTQ Adolescent Suicide

• The Wellness Society has some great activity booklet resources

• Mental Health First Aid training courses for youths