Our Subcommittee on Mental Health needs you! For more information, contact Sarah Gentile at sarah.gentile@comcast.net or (650) 947-8849. Instagram: @mentalhealthSELPA1
If your youth is having a severe mental health crisis:
Uplift Family Services (upliftfs.org) Mobile Crisis Program provides free, 24-hour intervention to children and adolescents in Santa Clara County who are experiencing acute psychological crisis regardless of insurance status. Call Uplift Family Services’s 24-HOUR CRISIS LINE (408) 379-9085 or toll-free (877) 41-CRISIS (412-7474)
Parents/guardians of anyone 14 years of age and older who has commercial insurance can contact San Jose Behavioral Health’s 24/7 admissions number @ (877) 419-3451. SJBH also takes voluntary, walk-in admissions 24/7 at 455 Silicon Valley Blvd, San Jose, CA 95138.
SUPPORT AT YOUR FINGERTIPS, 24/7
Crisis Text Line serves anyone, in any type of crisis, providing access to free, 24/7 support and information via the medium people already use and trust: text. Here’s how it works:
- Text START to 741741 from anywhere in the USA, anytime, about any type of crisis.
- A live, trained Crisis Counselor receives the text and responds quickly.
- The volunteer Crisis Counselor will help you move from a hot moment to a cool moment