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**Mental Health Starts Here**
Available Monday Through Friday, 10:00 AM – 10:00 PM ET
**In Need of Help or Support? You Are Not Alone.**
The NAMI HelpLine is a free, confidential nationwide service that provides one-on-one emotional support, mental health information and resources needed to tackle tough challenges that you, your family or friends are facing. Or, you can look through our self-help online resources below to find your answers.

## Connect with a trained HelpLine Specialist
Reach out to us by phone, text, or email, so we may assist you on your mental health journey.
## In A Crisis?
Help is always available when you [text](sms:988), [call](tel:988) or [chat](https://chat.988lifeline.org/) 988 to connect with the [988 Lifeline](https://988lifeline.org/) 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and every day of the year.
**Help is available 24/7.**

### Family Caregiver HelpLine
Whenever caregiving for a loved one with mental illness feels overwhelming, a simple call, text, email, or letter to the NAMI Family Caregiver HelpLine will connect you to a community of support grounded in lived experience.
### Are You a Teen or Young Adult?
Connect with the NAMI Teen & Young Adult HelpLine. Our Teen & YA Specialists are young people who understand what you’re going through because they’ve been through stuff, too.


### Línea de ayuda de NAMI
La línea de ayuda de NAMI es un servicio gratuito de apoyo entre pares a nivel nacional que ofrece información, referencias de recursos y acompañamiento a personas con síntomas o que viven con una condición de salud mental, a sus familiares y cuidadores, a los profesionales de la salud mental y al público en general.
### Local NAMI Helplines
To learn more about resources near you, use this directory to find your local NAMI helpline.

## Volunteer With Us
Ready to help people on their mental health journey? Learn how to become a HelpLine Specialist.

Self Help

###### Crisis Guide
Take steps now to prepare for a crisis. This guide provides important, potentially life-saving information for people experiencing a mental health crisis and their family or friends.

###### NAMI HelpLine Knowledge Center
Search for answers to your questions provided by the NAMI HelpLine team.

###### NAMI HelpLine Resource Zone
Search hundreds of quality resources to help you on your mental health journey in the nation’s largest mental health resource database.

###### Warmline Directory
A Warmline is a peer-run phone line that offers callers emotional support and is staffed by volunteers who are in recovery themselves. |
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