Community Health Events

The Monroe Mobile Crises Team is a mobile psychiatric emergency team for individuals and families within Monroe County who are experiencing a crisis in mental health. Its services are designed to divert individuals who are not at risk of harming themselves, as well as their families, from the county’s psychiatric emergency departments.

A team of mental health professionals go to the individual or family in their home, place of employment, school, etc. There are no age restrictions. 

Services provided include:

• Mobile crisis intervention/stabilization
• Mental health assessments
• Rapid linkage and/or re-linkage to treatment providers
• Interim/bridge mental health treatment
• Mental health transport
• Respite housing when available

And more.

Phone: (585) 529-3721

Website: https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/mental-health-wellness/emergency-services/monroe-mobile-crisis-team.aspx

• The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255.

• The Crisis Text Line: text “START” to 741-741.

• The Trevor Project (an LGBTQIA+ crisis intervention and suicide prevention hotline only for those under 25 years old): 1-866-488-7386.

• The Trans Lifeline: 877-565-8860

• THRIVE Lifeline (text-based crisis hotline for those in STEM fields): Available 24/7/365! Texters may reach out from any location. Text "THRIVE" to 1-313-662-8209. Visit their website at:  https://thrivelifeline.org/

• If you are hard of hearing, you can contact a lifeline counselor via TTY by dialing 800-799-4889

• If you are a veteran (or your loved one is a veteran), you can reach the Veterans Crisis Line by calling 1-800-273-8255 and pressing 1. You can also send a text to 838255.

If you have questions about counseling/mental health support, abuse, housing, or other services or resources, RCSD is there to help. Please call to speak with support staff.

Call: 585-262-8333

Coping with COVID.

Anonymous. Confidential. Free. 7 days a week 8am-10pm.

Call: 1-844-863-9314

www.NYProjectHope.org

The purpose of the BlackLine is to provide people with an avenue to report negative, physical and inappropriate contact with police and vigilantes. Vigilante contact is included, due to what happens to folks in rural and suburban communities from local community members. BlackLine is an anonymous and confidential avenue to report these interactions. 

Helping the most-impacted folks through crisis, abuse, and mistreatment. Call BlackLine prioritizes BIPOC.

(Black, Indigenous and People of Color).

Phone (call or text): 1 (800) 604-5841 

Website: https://www.callblackline.com/

The Finger Lakes Problem Gambling Resource Center is dedicated to the positive transformation of lives harmed by problem gambling. This includes individuals with a gambling problem as well as their families and communities. They are committed to increasing access to barrier-free care.

Phone: (585) 351-2262

Email: FingerLakesPGRC@NYProblemGambling.org

Website: https://nyproblemgamblinghelp.org/finger-lakes/

More information in the link below. 

Scheduled Meetings: https://pauseawhile.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Pause-Virtual-Meeting-Schedule.pdf

This link will help you search for virtual meetings: https://virtual-na.org/meetings/

Every 1st & 3rd Wednesday of each month @ 6:00pm and every 2nd & 4th Saturday of each month @ 5:00pm.

For more info, please visit:

www.flacra.org/virtual-connections

A PDF with tips on avoiding relapse. 

PDF: https://www.therapistaid.com/worksheets/tips-for-avoiding-relapse.pdf