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If you or someone you care about is struggling with mental health or substance use, free and confidential help is available right now — day or night.
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988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline
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Free, confidential support for anyone in emotional distress, a mental health or substance use crisis, or thinking about suicide.
Visit website(opens external site)BH Link
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Rhode Island's statewide behavioral health crisis hotline. Trained staff can talk you through a crisis and connect you to care.
Visit website(opens external site)Kids' Link RI
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Behavioral health triage and referral for children and teens.
Visit website(opens external site)If you or someone else is in immediate danger, call 911 or go to the nearest emergency room.
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BH Link Triage Center
A 24/7 community-based walk-in and drop-off center where clinicians connect people to immediate, stabilizing behavioral health services and longer-term care.
Call (401) 414-LINK (5465), or call or text 988.
Location and hours on bhlink.org (external site)Local crisis stabilization
The Providence Center — Crisis Stabilization Unit
24 hours a day, 7 days a week
East Bay Center — 24-Hour Emergency Services
24 hours a day
Community Care Alliance — Acute Stabilization Unit
When you're ready for the next step
- Find treatmentOutpatient care, medication for addiction treatment and more, by town.
- Join a support groupPeer-led groups for people in recovery and their families.
- Check open bedsLive availability at residential and inpatient programs.
- Find shelterEmergency shelters across Rhode Island and how to get a bed tonight.