Text HOME to 741741 from anywhere in the United States, anytime. Crisis Text Line is here for any crisis. A live, trained Crisis Counselor receives the text and responds, all from our secure online platform. The volunteer Crisis Counselor will help you move from a hot moment to a cool moment.
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Keep your Crisis Plan where you and/or your mental health provider can easily find it in times of crisis. Trained counselors are available 24/7 to help you with your planning. Call 1-888-NYC-WELL (1-888-692-9355) for assistance.
When a crisis strikes your community, your department leaders need to band together to keep residents and staff safe, disseminate critical information and instructions, respond to media inquiries, and triage priorities. Coordinating such efforts amid a crisis can feel unbearable. Instead, rely on a structured, proven, preestablished crisis management and communication plan designed specifically for your municipality.
Government public safety communicators must have a plan in place to keep residents informed. Follow our emergency preparedness communication best practices to ensure you are providing relevant, timely, and actionable instructions throughout the crisis and recovery periods.
NYC Well is your connection to free, confidential crisis counseling, mental health and substance use support, information and referrals. You can reach the toll-free help line 24 hours a day, 7 days a week by phone, text and online chat. Behavioral health professionals there can link you to the services you need.
Peer Support Specialists have been trained to use their own experiences with mental illness and behavioral health care to support others through difficult or crisis situations. Peer Support Specialists provide appropriate, compassionate and effective support, crisis diversion and information and referral. This service is intended for callers who specifically request peer support or otherwise may benefit from the service.
Homelessness is a national problem that has reached a crisis level in New York City. If you live here, you encounter this reality every day. On the subway, on the street, at school, and at work, we interact with colleagues, friends, and neighbors who are experiencing, or are at risk of, homelessness. Everyone wants a safe home where they can rest their head at night, and everyone wants to experience the enormous possibilities of living in the greatest city in the world. But, for approximately 80,000 of our fellow New Yorkers, realizing those possibilities is complicated by the experience of homelessness.
To find out if hospitalization may be needed, New Yorkers can access immediate assessment, crisis stabilization, and urgent mental health support at Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Services Program (CPEP) sites in each borough:
With the goal of helping people in distress and preventing suicide, Samaritans free, confidential, 24-hour emotional support and crisis response hotline service is available on an immediate and ongoing basis to help people who are dealing with every kind of problem, illness, trauma or loss as they try to cope with their difficulties.
The hotline provides those in crisis (as well as the people who care for them) with a 24-hour safety net that can be used to fill-in service gaps, bridge between appointments and act as a source of ongoing emotional maintenance for those with chronic emotional issues.
Samaritans hotline has responded to over 1 million calls since the New York center was established in 1983. We have found that people utilize our emotional support and crisis response services as an element of their own attempts to cope or deal with all types of personal and emotional problems or as part of a treatment or recovery plan.
When people who are in distress or crisis call Samaritans, morning, noon and night they reach a caring hotline volunteer who will take them seriously, listen to what they are thinking, feeling and experiencing without giving them unwanted advice or expressing their own personal judgements.
Hotline research has found that people in crisis receive palpable benefits when they talk to a hotline counselor trained in active listening. In particular, two studies funded by U.S. Department of Health & Human Resources have documented the effectiveness of hotlines in increasing protective factors for a person in distress and reducing their suicide ideation.
Samaritans 24-hour suicide prevention hotline is staffed entirely by caring volunteers who provide ongoing emotional support to those who feel depressed, overwhelmed or in crisis and need a safe place to turn.
The Lifeline is made up of a national network of local crisis centers, which answer all calls to the Lifeline as well as calls from their local communities. Contact your local crisis center to find out how you can donate to help support them.
Nancy: What was J. Pierpont Morgan's role in stopping the Panic of 1907 and how did it shape the US economy? In the fall of 1907, the world is on the verge of economic collapse. US and international markets had been wildly unsettled for months. Six months earlier, the American stock market had crashed despite record corporate earnings. And stocks also plummeted on several foreign exchanges. When stock prices plunged again in the summer, the estimated loss was $1 billion. Surprising as it may seem, the US had no central bank to deal with the financial crisis and no money in reserve. As panic increased, customers rushed to their banks to withdraw whatever money remained. People sat overnight in camp chairs, bringing food and waiting for the banks to open in the morning. Some even earned up to $10 a day holding places in line. Banks took unconventional measures to deal with the crisis. Tellers slowly counted out money to limit withdrawals, and some banks prominently displayed piles of cash in order to reassure worried customers. To stem the panic, it was critical that someone with influence and insight come to the rescue. And the person who stepped in, was J. Pierpont Morgan. At the time, Morgan's firm, JPMorgan & Company, was the country's preeminent private bank. More importantly, Morgan had experience with similar financial crises, having rescued the US Treasury during the Panic of 1893. He'd become the lender of last resort. So in October 1907, the semi-retired Morgan called together New York's leading bankers to his library on East 36th Street in Midtown Manhattan. For two weeks, he led a team raising capital for the failing markets, contributing large sums of his own money, and functioning as the country's de facto central bank. Although the actual panic lasted only a few weeks, its aftermath brought on an economic decline that destroyed banks and other businesses and created mass unemployment. Financial experts consider Morgan's impressive handling of the panic as the work of a bold financier who clearly understood the big picture and took decisive action. In 1908, Congress passed a currency act allowing banks to form reserve associations that could issue money temporarily, in economic emergencies. And in 1913, shortly after Morgan's death, the US established its much-needed central bank, the Federal Reserve.
The ability to download medical apps on mobile devices has made a wealth of mobile clinical resources available to HCPs.15 Medical apps for many purposes are available, including ones for electronic prescribing, diagnosis and treatment, practice management, coding and billing, and CME or e-learning.9,10 A broad choice of apps that assist with answering clinical practice and other questions at the point of care exist, such as: drug reference guides, medical calculators, clinical guidelines and other decision support aids, textbooks, and literature search portals.7,13,15 There are even mobile apps that simulate surgical procedures or that can conduct simple medical exams, such as hearing or vision tests.6,7 Many mobile apps are not intended to replace desktop applications, but are meant to complement them in order to provide a resource that has the potential to improve outcomes at the point of care.7 The use of medical apps has become frequent and widespread; 70% of medical school HCPs and students reported using at least one medical app regularly, with 50% using their favorite app daily.1,9
An additional advantage provided by information management apps is that they can be used in combination. For example, GoodReader can be connected to a cloud service, allowing PDF files to be downloaded from the cloud into the reader app.5 Evernote, as well as some other information management apps, can be used in conjunction with a cloud service and reader.5 This enables a PDF downloaded from the cloud to be viewed with a reader, then sections of the document can be cut and pasted into the information management app.5
Specialized apps are also available for remote viewing of medical imaging scans.10 Mobile MIM is a free app for the iPad and iPhone, approved by the Food and Drug Administration, that allows remote viewing of x-rays and imaging scans when users cannot access imaging workstations.6 This software works with a paid subscription or pay-per-use plan using MIMCloud, a HIPAA-compliant server that allows users to store and share medical images.6 Images can be downloaded from the cloud and viewed with the MIMViewer paid app in any setting, whether during discussions with team members or patients.6 2ff7e9595c
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