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hotlines

If you or someone you know needs immediate help please contact the one of the following crisis hotlines:

  • National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-TALK (1-800-273-8255)   (1-888-628-9454 for Spanish-speaking callers)
  • National Suicide Hopeline: 1-800-784-2433
  • Youth Mental Health Line: 1-888-568-1112
  • Child-Help USA: 1-800-422-4453 (24 hour toll free) Coping With Stress
  • National Alliance on Mental Illness: 1-800-950-NAMI

 

••••1-800-SUICIDE
A suicide prevention hotline that is confidential in nature, so there is no need to worry about them sharing your personal information. This hotline offers a connection with trained people who are here to help you by talking through your problems and providing you with additional resources to help gain coping skills.
MANAGING STRESS AND ANXIETY
••• Kids Training Team: Affirmations
This site has great youth affirmations that you might enjoy!
 
•••• Tips for Stress
What stresses you out the most? Tests? Pressure and expectations? Boyfriend/Girlfriend? How do you manage all these external and internal pressures? The Palo Alto Medical Foundation gives some insight as to figuring out what might be stressing you out and how to deal with them directly.
 
••• Tips for Traumatic Stress
Did you just witness a traumatic or violent event? How do you deal with what you’re feeling for the first time? This website has section just for teenagers, to guide you through how to get through this tough time.
 
•••• Dealing with Your Mind
What you think can influence how you feel and experience certain things. So this website has many tips on understanding and dealing with various emotions you might be experiencing now. Here are just some of the links. (English and Spanish)
•••• 5 Ways to Deal With Anxiety


•••• 5 Ways to Shake Shyness 


•••• Dealing with Rejection 

 

GRIEF AND LOSS
•••• Dealing with Grief
Have you lost anyone you cared about? Have lost anything that was important to you? This site has great tips to help you deal with your emotions. 
FEELING SAD
•••• Kidshealth.org
Are you in a bad mood? Feeling sad and tired? This site has excellent resources that will help you understand your emotions and help you through these tough times…
Bad moods?

What is depression:

5 ways to fight depression:

If you or a friend is thinking about suicide
•••• Adolescent self harm
This site will help you understand and recognize suicide signs in teens, when to seek help and what works. Check it out!

 

•••• Suicide prevention for teens
Have you ever heard a friend say “I wish I were dead” and didn’t know what to do? This site has many resources for you to help your friends and yourself. Please take a look at it!
CONTROLING YOUR ANGER
••• Tips for Anger Management
Do you find yourself always regretting hurting someone or something you love because you were angry? Is anger a feeling that I can avoid? Or, is there something I can do after I get angry, but before I do damage? This links helps you understand the stage of life you are going through as a teenager and how you can better understand the process of managing your anger.

 

•••• Anger Management for teens
Everybody gets mad… Anger is a normal emotion. Anger getting out of control is not… This site will help you identify how you are handling your anger and it gives you great tips. Check it out!

 

••• Anger Management and Self Talk
Self talk is a great strategy to sooth you when your anger is starting to get out of control. This site will teach you easy steps to change your self-talk and increase your self control…
Additional Mental Health Resources


••••Headquarters Counseling Center of Douglas County
Headquarters offer skilled workers to help improve the emotional well-being andsafety of adults and children through readily available counseling, education, and information services. There is a free hotline available 24/7 in case you need to talk anytime. The website offers resources within the Douglas County region and can connect you to resources in your area.
LINK: http://www.hqcc.lawrence.ks.us/

••••YellowRibbon
This is a national organization devoted to help teens overcome deep emotional pain in order to prevent suicide. The website itself is a valuable resource to help teach coping skills, how to handle crises, and depression. It also lists a national hotline that is available 24/7.
LINK: http://www.yellowribbon.org/

•••Teen Suicide Prevention
This resource lists nation-wide suicide prevention hotlines that are toll-free. Also, it explains that these feelings are more common than you think and expresses that you are not alone… and asking for help is okay.
LINK: http://www.teensuicideprevention.org

••••Youth Crisis Network
This website provided resources that cover many issues experienced by teens, such as violence or sexual assault. The toll-free hotlines given are categorized by these issues to provide you with appropriate services with any issue you may be experiencing. Also, the website gives self-esteem building skills to help you recognize your worth and importance in this world.
LINK: http://www.youthcrisisnetwork.org/

•••Kristin Brooks Hope Center
This website has many resources and programs for specific populations, including college students. It also provides very useful information about depression, suicide and its warning signs, PTSD, and how to help somebody who is having suicidal thoughts.
LINK: http://www.preventsuicide.us/hopeline-new/edu-suicide.html

•••• Mental Health Information (SAMHSA)
LINK: http://mentalhealth.samhsa.gov/databases/kdata.aspx?state=KS

This portal provides access to the national database of mental health resources provided specifically in Kansas. It includes the following links:

•••• Mental Health Facilities Locator
This link takes you to a searchable directory of mental health treatment facilities and support services.
LINK: http://mentalhealth.samhsa.gov/databases/facility-search.aspx?state=KS&fullname=Kansas

•••• Mental Health Services Directory
This link gives you a list of consumer, family, and advocacy organizations with very useful information about mental health resources.
LINK: http://mentalhealth.samhsa.gov/databases/MHDR.aspx?D1=KS&Type=MDR

••• State Resource Guide
This link gives you a summary of national and State organizations that provide family support programs, financing information, and self-help groups.
LINK: http://mentalhealth.samhsa.gov/publications/allpubs/
stateresourceguides/Kansas01.asp

•• Substance Abuse Treatment Facility Locator
This link will take you to a searchable directory of nationwide drug and alcohol treatment centers.
LINK: http://dasis3.samhsa.gov/PrxInput.aspx?STATE=Kansas

• Latino Youth Violence Prevention Services
This link provides a searchable directory of Latino youth violence prevention services offered in Kansas.
LINK: http://mentalhealth.samhsa.gov/databases/latino-search.aspx?D1=KS

••• Community Mental Health Centers in Kansas
Here is a comprehensive, updated listing of community mental health centers all across Kansas, with phone numbers and in some cases web sites and email addresses.
LINK: http://www.srskansas.org/fingertipfacts/cmhcenters.html

•• Kansas Consumer Run Organizations
Consumer Run Organizations (CROs) are run for and by adult mental health consumers, ensuring a safe place for mutual support by members, providing leadership, education, training and research opportunities for members, offering a range of peer support groups, providing a bridge from state hospitals to life in the community, and educating mental health consumers about and connect them to needed Medicaid and other, community resources.
LINK: http://www.kansascro.com/

Here is a quick link to ALL the CROs in Kansas, with helpful info, hours and contact information.
LINK: http://www.kansascro.com/find_a_cro/list_of_cros.html

•• NAMI - Kansas
The National Alliance of Mental Illness's site provides access to services and support for persons affected by mental illness, including the consumer of mental health services and family members and others who serve as caregivers.
LINK: http://www.nami.org/MSTemplate.cfm?Section=Homepage13&Site=NAMI_Kansas&
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• Mental Health Hospitals

Larned State Hospital
LINK: http://www.srskansas.org/LSH/default.html
R. R. #3, Box 89, Larned, Ks 67550-9365
Phone 316-285-2131 Fax 316-285-4359

Osawatomie State Hospital
LINK: http://www.srskansas.org/hcp/MHSIP/MHSIPOsawatomieStateMHHospital.htm
Box 500, Osawatomie, Ks 66064-9757
Phone 913-755-7000 Fax 913-755-2637

Rainbow Mental Health Facility
LINK: http://www.srskansas.org/hcp/MHSIP/MHSIPRainbowMHF.htm
2205 W. 36th Ave., Kansas City, Ks 66103-2198