Text line option offered by Rutland Mental Health Services Community Care Network

VERMONT – Rutland Mental Health Services Community Care Network began offering a text line around the same time as the transition to the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. It is another avenue to provide mental health care accessibility.
Community Care Network Director of Emergency Services Loree Zeif said the text line -- 802-214-2553 -- is an expansion of their 24/7 crisis clinician availability and enables them to provide mental health support and care.
“The goal of the text line is to increase the ways we have of initially engaging with people in need of crisis services,” she said. “It is intended to be used as an initial form of engagement, not to be used in the place of in-person interaction.”
Community Care Network provides mental he...