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24/7 Phone #'s Call or text: 988 Chat on website: www.988lifeline.org Or call: 330-452-6000 

The new three-digit dialing code, 988 Lifeline, connects callers to the 988 Crisis Lifeline. When you call, text or chat using the 988 Lifeline, you’re connected to trained counselors that are part of the 988 Lifeline network, made up of more than 200 local crisis centers. Counselors are trained to provide emotional support and crisis counseling to people in suicidal crisis, addiction crisis or emotional distress.   If you need immediate, active medical intervention, call 911.   The 988 Lifeline is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, across the United States.   Call or text: 988    Visit the website to chat or for more info.  (press 1 for Veterans support or 2 for Spanish speaking) 

The Stark County Homeless Navigation Hotline (330-452-4363) refers eligible callers to appropriate shelters and other programs for households that meet the HUD definition of literally homeless after conducting an eligibility interview Monday – Friday 7am to 5:30 pm and Saturdays 10am to 2pm (except holidays). Homeless Navigation maintains a current listing of available shelter beds throughout Stark County, and works with mental health agencies, hospitals, law enforcement, alcohol and drug treatment centers, and the courts to prevent discharge into homelessness. If calling outside of business hours for shelter and housing needs, please leave a message, and you will be contacted the next business day. The Stark County Homeless Navigation Hotline number (330-452-4363) is intended for individuals or families without a place to stay that night. Referring individuals or families who already have a place to stay for the night will only prolong wait times for those who urgently need shelter. If you are experiencing a mental health crisis, please call the 24-hour hotline: 330-452-6000 or dial “988” If you are experiencing domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, and / or human trafficking, please call Domestic Violence Project, Inc. at 330-453-SAFE (7233) or Alliance Area Domestic Violence Shelter at (330) 823-7223. To speak with someone on the Street Outreach Team, contact ICAN Housing at 330-455-9100

If you suspect a minor child is living in a dangerous situation, call the 24/7 child abuse hotline immediately.

If you think you've seen a missing child, call anytime, 24 hours a day.   The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children is a private, non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation whose mission is to help find missing children, reduce child sexual exploitation, and prevent child victimization. NCMEC works with families, victims, private industry, law enforcement, and the public to assist with preventing child abductions, recovering missing children, and providing services to deter and combat child sexual exploitation.

Serving Stark County and Waynesburg.