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Community Resources
Are you interested in quality resources that add value to your knowledge and/or access to mental health treatment? Do you need support with basic support for food, housing, or other urgent needs? Please check out these resources that I have utilized and have been incredibly helpful.
Here2Help Hotline
Phone Number: (410) 433-5175
Are you feeling overwhelmed and not able to cope? Are you feeling like life isn’t worth living? Are you having thoughts of hurting yourself or someone else? Do you just need someone to talk to? Get help now by calling the Here2Help Hotline 410-433-5175.The Here2Help Hotline is available 24/7, 365 days a year. It’s free and confidential. The hotline responds to over 40,000 calls a year.
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
Phone Number: 1-800-273-8255
Are you feeling overwhelmed and not able to cope? Are you feeling like life isn’t worth living? Are you having thoughts of hurting yourself or someone else? Do you just need someone to talk to? Get help now by calling the Here2Help Hotline 410-433-5175.The Here2Help Hotline is available 24/7, 365 days a year. It’s free and confidential. The hotline responds to over 40,000 calls a year.
211 Maryland
Phone Number: 211
URL: https://211md.org/
Every hour of every day, people need essential human services. They are looking for help finding affordable housing, food, employment training, utility payment assistance, services for their children or aging parents, and many other issues.
2-1-1 Maryland is partnership of four agencies working together to provide simple access to health and human services information. 2-1-1 is an easy to remember telephone number that connects people with important community services. Our specially trained call specialists answer calls 24 hours a day, every day of the year.
The 2-1-1 database has information on nearly 5,000 agencies and programs across the state. Each week 2-1-1 Maryland handles thousands of calls from people in need, providing referrals to services and helping people problem-solve when the services they need are not available.
The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)
The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) is the nation’s largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to building better lives for the millions of Americans affected by mental illness. The NAMI organization operates at the national, state and local level.
NAMI Maryland is the NAMI state organization in Maryland. NAMI Maryland provides educational resources and events, statewide outreach, advocacy and affiliate organizational support. NAMI Maryland provides the free trainings that allow NAMI affiliates to deliver NAMI programs.
Local NAMI affiliates in Maryland offer free peer support, education and outreach programs, and engage mental health advocates in their communities.
Behavioral Health System Baltimore, Inc.
Phone Number: (410) 433-5175
Behavioral Health System Baltimore, Inc. is a nonprofit organization tasked by Baltimore City to perform the function of managing Baltimore City’s behavioral health system—the system of care that addresses emotional health and well-being and provides services for individuals with substance use and mental health disorders.
Mental Health Association of Maryland (MHAMD)
Phone Number: (443) 901-1550
MHAMD is Maryland’s only volunteer nonprofit citizens organization bringing together consumers, families, professionals, advocates, and concerned citizens for unified action in all aspects of behavioral health. We envision a just, humane, and healthy society where each individual is accorded respect, dignity, and the opportunity to achieve their full potential—free from stigma and prejudice.
Pro Bono Counseling Project (PBCP)
Phone Number: (410) 433-5175
The Pro Bono Counseling Project (PBCP) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation founded with the goal of connecting uninsured and under-insured low-income Marylanders with compassionate and qualified mental health professionals who provide care on a volunteer basis at no cost.
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