Every number.
Every group.
For anyone who is struggling, anyone who has lost someone, and anyone who wants to help end gun violence. I checked every link and phone number against the organization's own site.
In crisis right now? Call or text 988. If you are in danger, call 911.
Talk to someone now
For a crisis, or for a bad night that might become one. I have called the lifeline more than once.
988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline
Call, text or chat, 24/7. Free and confidential. Spanish is available.
Crisis Text Line
Text with a trained crisis counselor, 24/7.
Veterans Crisis Line
For veterans, service members and their families. You do not need to be enrolled in VA care.
The Trevor Project
Crisis support for LGBTQ+ young people, 24/7.
In danger right now
If you or someone else is in danger, call 911 or go to the nearest emergency room.
Mental health care that lasts
Finding a therapist, getting screened, and help with drinking or drugs. I have been in therapy for years, and thank God for it.
NAMI HelpLine
Peer support and referrals for people with a mental health condition and their families. Monday to Friday, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Eastern.
SAMHSA National Helpline
Treatment referrals for mental health and substance use, 24/7, in English and Spanish.
FindTreatment.gov
A confidential, anonymous search for mental health and substance use treatment near you, run by SAMHSA.
Mental Health America screening
Free, anonymous mental health screenings you can take online.
NAMI Wisconsin
Free support groups, education and advocacy for people with mental illness and their families in Wisconsin.
211 Wisconsin
Local services near you in Wisconsin, from counseling to housing to food.
The Jed Foundation
Emotional health and suicide prevention for teens and young adults.
Man Therapy
Straight talk about mental health, built for men who would never call it that.
Construction Industry Alliance for Suicide Prevention
Tools for crews, foremen and owners to talk about it on the job.
After having a baby
For anyone pregnant or who just had a baby, and for the partners and families around them. Depression and anxiety after a birth are common, they are treatable, and they are not your fault.
National Maternal Mental Health Hotline
For anyone pregnant or who just had a baby. Call, text or chat, 24/7, free and confidential, in English and Spanish.
Postpartum Support International
A HelpLine for moms, dads and families, with support in English and Spanish.
PSI online support groups
More than 50 free online support groups led by trained facilitators, including groups for dads and for parents after a loss.
Help for dads
About one in ten dads has postpartum depression. Postpartum Support International has a HelpLine and a support group for dads too.
Find a perinatal mental health provider
PSI's directory of therapists, psychiatrists and support groups with training in mental health during pregnancy and after birth.
Postpartum psychosis
Rare and treatable, and an emergency. If you think someone has it, stay with them and the baby and get help right away.
Urgent maternal warning signs
The CDC's list of warning signs to take seriously during pregnancy and up to a year after delivery, including thoughts of harming yourself or your baby.
MotherToBaby
Free answers about medications and other exposures during pregnancy and breastfeeding, by phone, text or chat, in English and Spanish.
Suicide prevention
How to spot the warning signs, what to say, and who is doing this work in Wisconsin.
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
Research, education and prevention programs, and support for people who have lost someone.
AFSP Wisconsin
The Wisconsin chapter of AFSP: local events, education programs and support.
#BeThe1To
Five steps you can take when you are worried someone might be thinking about suicide.
Prevent Suicide Wisconsin
Partners across Wisconsin working to bring hope and resources to prevent suicide, with training and local help.
Wisconsin Department of Health Services
The state's suicide prevention information and programs.
Suicide Prevention Resource Center
Free training and resources for anyone building suicide prevention into a school, workplace or community.
After a suicide loss
My mother died by firearm suicide when I was 22 months old. If you have lost someone, these are people who understand.
AFSP: I've lost someone
Support groups and resources for people who lost someone to suicide.
Find a support group
AFSP's list of suicide loss support groups, in person and online.
Alliance of Hope
An online community for suicide loss survivors, open any time.
Everytown Survivor Network
A nationwide community for anyone who has lived through gun violence, including people who lost someone to gun suicide.
Moments That Survive
Gun violence survivors telling their stories in their own words. Mine is there too.
Guns and a crisis
My mom had easy access to a gun at her lowest moment. More than half of gun deaths in this country are suicides. Putting time and distance between a person in crisis and a gun saves lives.
Live Today, Put It Away
A map of Wisconsin gun shops and ranges that will hold firearms outside your home for no fee or a low fee when someone is struggling.
Hold My Guns
Connects gun owners with firearm retailers that offer voluntary, confidential, temporary storage.
Be SMART
Everytown's program for secure storage in homes with kids and teens.
Project ChildSafe
Free cable gun locks and secure storage information.
Means Matter
Harvard research on why keeping guns and other lethal means away from someone in crisis prevents suicide.
Extreme Risk laws
How these laws let family or police ask a court to temporarily keep guns from someone in crisis.
Groups working to end gun violence
This is the work I will never walk away from. I got involved with Moms Demand Action and Everytown around 2012, and I am an Everytown Wisconsin Survivor Fellow.
Everytown for Gun Safety
Research, advocacy and local chapters working to end gun violence.
Moms Demand Action
Volunteers pushing for gun safety at every level of government. You do not have to be a mom to join.
Students Demand Action
Young people organizing to end gun violence in their schools and communities.
WAVE Educational Fund
Wisconsin's gun violence prevention group. Take action, attend an event or volunteer.
Milwaukee Community Wellness and Safety
The City of Milwaukee's violence prevention department, formerly the Office of Violence Prevention.
Brady
Working to end gun violence through the courts, legislatures and communities.
Giffords
Led by former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, working to save lives from gun violence.
Sandy Hook Promise
Programs that teach students and adults to recognize the warning signs of violence and act on them.
Research and data
Where the numbers on this site come from, so you can check them yourself.
Firearm suicide in the United States
Everytown Research's report on firearm suicide and how to prevent it.
CDC: firearm injury and death
Federal data on firearm injuries and deaths.
What the data says about gun deaths
Pew Research Center's summary of the latest federal numbers.
Center for Gun Violence Solutions
Research and policy work from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Gun Policy in America
RAND's reviews of the evidence on what different gun laws actually do.
Reporting on suicide
Recommendations for reporters and writers covering suicide.
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