Dial 211 as your first call for help in Broward County. 211 Broward can help you find food, housing, health care, elder care services, child care, legal aid, mental health support, and much more.  FIND HELP.

Visit 211-Broward.org.

For a full resource directory of services offered by 211 Broward, click here.  

YOU CAN TALK ABOUT SUICIDE. 

Call or Text the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. Dial 988. 

988 offers 24/7 access to trained crisis counselors who can help people experiencing mental health-related distress. That could be:

• Thoughts of suicide
• Mental health or substance use crisis, or
• Any other kind of emotion distress

People can call or text 988 or chat 988lifeline.orgfor themselves or if they are worried about a loved one who may need crisis support.

988 serves as a universal entry point so that no matter where you live in the United States, you can reach a trained crisis counselor who can help.

Signs of Personal Crisis

It is important to recognize the signs of personal crisis that could lead to suicide. Parents should talk with their children. 

Parents need to ask the screening yes-or-no questions from The Columbia Protocol to identify if someone is in crisis, and they should not worry that asking about suicide will put the idea into their children’s heads. The questions can also be found below:

 Parents, please talk to your children, Students, talk to each other. “Just ask, just listen.” Every day ask the important questions below.  

1. Have you wished you were dead or wished you could go to sleep and not wake up?

 2. Have you actually had any thoughts about killing yourself? If the loved one answers “yes” to question 2, ask questions 3, 4, 5 and 6. If the person answers “no” to question 2, go directly to question 6.

 3. Have you thought about how you might do this?

 4. Have you had any intention of acting on these thoughts of killing yourself, as opposed to you have the thoughts but you definitely would not act on them?

 5. Have you started to work out or worked out the details of how to kill yourself? Do you intend to carry out this plan?

 6. Always ask this question: In the past three months, have you done anything, started to do anything, or prepared to do anything to end your life?

If "yes" is the answer to any of these questions:  Don't judge. Don't act shocked. Don't panic. Reach out and get help immediately.

• Help is only a phone call or a click away.

  If a parent is concerned that there may be a threat as severe as suicide, dial 911. 

  • Nationwide, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline can be reached by dialing 988. 
  • In Broward County, dial 211 if you suspect any risk or Text “FL” to 741741.

   

  Additional resources are only a phone call away.

  • 211    24/7 crisis hotline serving Broward County
  • 1-800-273-8255   National Suicide Hotline
  • 954-740-MSD1 (6731)    24/7 crisis hotline
  • Crisis Intervention YES team   954-677-3113, Option 3
  • Crisis Text Line:  Text FL to 741741 for a live counselor
  • Memorial Hospital Walk-In Center  954-276-1285
  • Florida Behavioral Health Center   954-734-2000
  • Grievance Hotline  877-698-7794
  • Eagles' Haven (licensed social workers)     954-203-4249 

   

   To report domestic violence, call 911

  •  Women in Distress, Broward, 954-761-1133

  • The National Domestic Violence hotline, 1-800-799-SAFE (7233)
    No More Tears, South Florida, 954-324-7669 or text NO MORE to 94543