The federal grants that supplemented 988 operations expired in 2024, leaving Texas’ crisis system at risk of collapse without state financial support.

Lawmakers highlighted that suicide rates in Northeast Texas exceed the state average, urging lawmakers to address this issue during the current legislative session.

Two years ago, when the suicide prevention hotline launched, it was called a "game-changer." However, 988 systems in Texas are now beginning to buckle under the weight of a multi-million dollar ...

TEMPLE, Texas — On what some people call "Blue Monday" on the third Monday of January- considered one of the most challenging days for mental health - Texas' suicide prevention hotline faces a ...

Several ways newly-confirmed Secretary of Veterans Affairs Doug Collins can make the agency more responsive to Texas vets.

State lawmakers have an opportunity this legislative session to show Texas is serious about reducing suicide by adequately funding the centers that answer calls from people at risk of taking their ...

Kay Pleasant, a member of the board of directors for the North Texas chapter of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention expresses support for SB188 which would create a trust fund for mental ...

Around a table, inside a Kyle senior living facility, a small group of people talked about ways to tackle a growing and heartbreaking problem: suicide.

Since launching in 2022, Texas' five centers that answer calls to the 988 suicide hotline have received more than 380,000 calls, the second-highest call volume in the nation, according to the ...

The rate of youth suicides in the state dramatically increased from 1999 to 2020, according to data from the Texas Department of State Health Services. Peer-to-peer suicide prevention groups ...