Crisis Resource Card
Every hotline, text line, and online resource cited across the YA Nonfiction Skills series — on one page. Print and post. Share with students who need it.
If you are in immediate danger
911 — emergency services (US, Canada). Use if you or someone near you is in immediate physical danger.
Suicide and self-harm
- 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline — call or text 988 — free, confidential, 24/7
- Crisis Text Line — text HOME to 741741 — free, confidential, 24/7
- Trans Lifeline (peer support for trans people, by trans people) — 1-877-565-8860
If you have lost someone to suicide:
- Alliance of Hope (community of suicide-loss survivors) — allianceofhope.org
- American Foundation for Suicide Prevention — afsp.org
Dating abuse, intimate-partner violence
- loveisrespect (teen and young-adult specific) — text LOVEIS to 22522 or call 1-866-331-9474 — loveisrespect.org
- National Domestic Violence Hotline — 1-800-799-7233 — thehotline.org
- RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network) — 1-800-656-HOPE (4673) — rainn.org
Sextortion and image-based abuse
- NCMEC CyberTipline (sextortion and online exploitation of minors) — report.cybertip.org or 1-800-843-5678
- Take It Down (free service to remove explicit images of minors from participating platforms; you do not have to share the actual image to use it) — takeitdown.ncmec.org
Child abuse
- Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline — 1-800-4-A-CHILD (1-800-422-4453) — childhelp.org
LGBTQ+ specific
- Trans Lifeline — 1-877-565-8860
- LGBT National Hotline — 1-888-843-4564 — lgbthotline.org
- The Trevor Project (LGBTQ+ youth specifically) — call 1-866-488-7386 · text START to 678-678 · chat at thetrevorproject.org
Mental health and neurodivergence
- Mental Health America — mhanational.org
- Anxiety & Depression Association of America — adaa.org
- Autistic Self Advocacy Network — autisticadvocacy.org
- CHADD (Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder) — chadd.org
When you can’t tell a parent
Every “talk to a trusted adult” callout in the series includes a fallback pathway. If a parent isn’t safe to tell — because they would respond with rage, religious shame, kicking you out, or anything else that makes things worse — these are also first-call options:
- A school counselor, school nurse, or trusted teacher
- An aunt, uncle, older cousin, or older sibling
- A friend’s parent
- A coach
- Any of the hotlines on this card — they are confidential, will not call your parents without your knowledge, and will help you figure out next steps
You only need one trusted adult to start. They can help you find the rest.
Internet scams and AI-based crime
- FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center — ic3.gov
Notes for adults using this card
- Print at standard size and post in counselor offices, classrooms, library spaces, and family-resource areas
- All numbers and URLs verified accurate as of mid-2026; re-verify annually before reprinting
- This card is intentionally not branded with publisher or author names — the goal is that a student in crisis can use it without context, and the resources route to the right help regardless of which book in the series prompted the conversation
Crisis Resource Card · YA Nonfiction Skills series · skillsforyoungadults.org · Free for non-commercial educational use