Mental Health Resources

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If you are experiencing a mental health crisis or medical emergency, please call 911 or go to your local emergency room.

If you don’t need emergency services but want to talk to someone right now, please call one of the 24-hour support lines listed below.

Low Fee & Sliding Scale Mental Health Clinics

Crisis Lines

Nutritionists

Elise Liu, Intuitive Eating Dietitian & Nutritionist, RD, MPH: Elise is an Intuitive Eating Dietitian based in Silicon Valley, where she helps her clients rediscover an effortless relationship with food & body without obsession. Her private practice and podcast, Craving Food Freedom, focuses on helping people trust themselves around food without binging and guilt, develop self-worth outside of their bodies, and become more intuitive eaters. In-network with Aetna, United Healthcare, and SCCIPA (Santa Clara Physician Network).  

COVID mental health resourcing

  • Supporting First Responders: All Clear Foundation & Healing Our Own

  • On Being with Krista Tippett has put together a COVID care package for uncertain times with a collection of podcasts, poetry, meditations, and reflection.

  • COVID-19 resource and information guide from the National Alliance on Mental Illness.

  • Guided meditations with Tara Brach.

  • Open Culture offers a vast collection of free content, including digital books, movies, language lessons, and lectures.

  • Supporting families via Child Mind Institute.

LGBTQIA+

  • The Trevor Project: The Trevor Project is the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, & intersex (LGBTQI+) young people under 25. Trevor Lifeline: 1-866-488-7386.

  • The Recovery Village: Support for substance abuse and Mental Illness.

  • Community United Against Violence (CUAV): CUAV works to build the power of LGBTQI+ communities to transform violence and oppression. Leave a message for CUAV at (415) 333-HELP (4357). They will walk you through an intake process to assess if they are the best fit to support your needs.

  • Rainbow Community Center of Contra Costa County: Since 1995, we have been offering support & social opportunities to the LGBTQI+ community & its allies.

  • Trans Lifeline: Trans Lifeline’s Hotline is a peer support service run by trans people for trans and questioning callers. Hotline: 1-877-565-8860.

  • GLAAD: Resource page from GLAAD.

  • Positive Images: Positive Images is a grassroots organization whose mission is to provide support, advocacy, and education to Sonoma County's LGBTQIA+ community.

Domestic Violence

Sexual Assault

  • RAINN Sexual Assault: 24-hr National Sexual Assault Hotline: 1-800-656-HOPE or chat online. RAINN also offers information on sexual assault, tips for what to do following an attack, information on how to help loved ones who have been raped, and a search page for finding local rape crisis centers.

  • Verity: Crisis line 24/7: 707-545-7273. Verity strives to eliminate all forms of violence, focusing on sexual assault and abuse.

  • After Silence: On this website, you will find a support group, message board, and chat room for survivors of rape, sexual assault, and sexual abuse.

  • Bay Area Women Against Rape (BAWAR): 24-hr Sexual Assault Crisis Hotline: 510-845-7273

  • 911Rape: 911Rape offers support for sexual assault victims and a safe, anonymous way to learn how to get help after a sexual assault.

  • National Center for Victims of Crime, Teen Action Partnership: This toll-free helpline (1-800-394-2255, 8 AM to 8 PM EST) offers supportive counseling, practical information, and referrals to local sources of help.

  • The National Child Traumatic Stress Network: What Do I Do Now? A Survival Guide For Victims of Acquaintance Rape: This survival guide was designed to help teens understand what acquaintance rape is, the steps they should take after it occurs, common reactions, and ideas for getting help.

  • Helping Survivors: Helping Survivors mission is to assist anyone who has been sexually assaulted or abused. Their website offers a compilation of information about different instances of sexual violence and resources to assist survivors and their families. They also have a guide on child sex abuse and its long-term impact on survivors.

Children & Families

  • Family Paths: Parenting Stress Helpline: 1-800-829-3777

  • Safe & Sound TALK Line: 24-Hour TALK Line at (415) 441-KIDS (5437)

  • Birth Injury Justice Center: Resources for parents who are caring for a child with a birth injury.

  • March of Dimes: This group aims to improve the health and wellness of new mothers and babies with disabilities by providing a support community with online discussion boards and forums.

Veterans

Narcissistic Abuse

  • Narcissistic Abuse Support: Website full of resources for survivors of narcissistic abuse.

  • Out of the FOG: Out of the FOG was launched in 2007 to provide information and support to the family members and loved ones of individuals who suffer from a personality disorder.

Legal Aid

  • Stand Together Contra Costa: Stand Together Contra Costa is a rapid response, legal services, and community education project to support safety and justice for immigrant families in Contra Costa County. Crisis Line: 1-925-100-5151

  • Know Your Rights document. 

  • Law Help: check out this website for low-cost and sometimes free legal support in your state to learn what options are available to you.

  • Bay Area Legal Aid: BayLegal’s mission is to provide meaningful access to the civil justice system through quality legal assistance regardless of a client’s location, language, or disability.

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