Jun. 30—On July 16, a new, national three-digit dialing code for reaching the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline — 988 — will go live. The current phone number of 800-273-TALK will also continue to ...

Months after announcing a proposal to implement a three-digit suicide prevention hotline, the Federal Communications Commission approved 988. The vote to create a national three-digit hotline, held ...

Last weekend the Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (DBHDS) and Virginia Department of Health (VDH) announced the successful transition of the National Suicide ...

Federal regulators are setting up a new three-digit number to reach a suicide prevention hotline in order to make it easier to seek help and reduce the stigma associated with mental health. Once it's ...

In many parts of the US, it has long been possible to make local calls with just the seven-digit phone number; the three-digit area code was implicit for calls between numbers using the same area code ...