CRISIS RESOURCES
Finding oneself in crisis can be a difficult experince. Helping someone through a crisis can also be a diffcult experience. Through our own lived experinces we also know that building a community of support and resources can be critical to navigating the complex surroundings of each unique crisis.
Below you will find a list of resources, broken into sevral catagories. While this list may seem overwhelming, please keep in mind that many organizations are stretched to their limits, both with resources and staffing. This may mean that wait times or appointments may be difficult to make in some cases. This is why we are trying to provide a more extensive list. If you cannot get an appointment at one place try another, in the end it will take us all helping each other to connect everyone with the resources they need.
And, for those who can, please consider finding an organization from the list below and supporting them financially. Every contribution helps make this world a more healthy place.
If you have other resources you feel we may have missed please email them to info@madculture.org and we will add them tho this growing list.
Below you will find resources for the following categories:
Online
Chicago area
Illinois State
National
LatinX Therapists Action Network
Asian Mental Health Collective
Innopsych – finding therapists of color
Therapy for Queer People of Color
Kindred Southern Healing Justice Collective
The Kindred Collective is a network of grassroots energy, body and earth based healers and medical practitioners seeking to create mechanisms for wellness and safety that respond, intervene and transform conditions of generational trauma and violence in our communities and movements.
Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective
BEAM is a national training, movement building, and grant making institution that is dedicated to the healing, wellness, and liberation of Black and marginalized communities.
To promote a multinational LGBTQ+ network dedicated to improving health and wellness opportunities, economic empowerment, and equal rights while promoting individual and collective work, responsibility, and self-determination.
Fireweed Collective offers mental health education and mutual aid through a Healing Justice lens. We help support the emotional wellness of all people, and center the needs of those most marginalized by our society. Our work seeks to disrupt the harm of systems of abuse and oppression, often reproduced by the mental health system.
Our mission is to provide quality wellness support that is culturally inclusive, centers Indigenous core values, and supports the healing of Black, Native/Indigenous, and communities of color.
Rest for Resistance strives to uplift marginalized communities, those who rarely get access to adequate health care or social support. This includes Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Pacific Islander, Asian, Middle Eastern, and multiracial persons.
National Black Trans Advocacy Coalition
Our Mission helps improve the black transgender human experience by overcoming violence and injustice in the world through the power, value and love of all people!
Online Resources
LGBTQIA+
Muslim
Cross-Disability
Psychotherapist association for gender and sexual diversity Inclusive Therapists
Therapy for Queer People of Color
Transgender Law Center works to change law, policy, and attitudes so that all people can live safely, authentically, and free from discrimination regardless of gender identity or expression.
Queer Crescent imagines futures where LGBTQIA+ Muslims are building possibilities towards collective liberation. Our work is shaped by resisting gendered violence through cultural organizing, base-building, and defining Muslimness as an expansive and racialized identity.
National Black Trans Advocacy Coalition
Our Mission helps improve the black transgender human experience by overcoming violence and injustice in the world through the power, value and love of all people!
Transgender Professional Association for Transgender Health
The Transgender Professional Association for Transgender Health is the first global transgender healthcare organization headed by trans-identified health care professionals, broadly identified as researchers, clinicians, providers-in-training, activists and other service-oriented experts.
Sins Invalid is a disability justice based performance project that incubates and celebrates artists with disabilities, centralizing artists of color and LGBTQ / gender-variant artists as communities who have been historically marginalized.
To end suicide among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer & questioning young people.
An intergenerational, healing collective led by the brilliance and wisdom of Black Cis Women, Queer and Trans healers, artists, health professionals, magicians, activists and ancestors.
Emergency services for deaf people
HEARD is a cross-disability abolitionist organization that unites across identities, communities, movements, and borders to end ableism, racism, capitalism, and all other forms of oppression and violence. HEARD supports disabled people and others who experience ableism by rejecting disability hierarchies and rigid definitions of disability, and by recognizing deaf people as part of disability communities. HEARD works to increase our collective capacity to identify, understand, and challenge oppression through grassroots advocacy, community organizing, peer support, mutual aid, education, and research.
BIPOC
Institute of Muslim Mental Health
SEEMA – Directory of Muslim therapists
Queer Crescent imagines futures where LGBTQIA+ Muslims are building possibilities towards collective liberation. Our work is shaped by resisting gendered violence through cultural organizing, base-building, and defining Muslimness as an expansive and racialized identity.
Mental Health Centers
Chicago Department of Public Health Mental Health Clinics
312-747-1020
Services available Monday – Friday 8:30 am – 4:30 pm at these five locations:
Englewood MHC
Psychosocial Rehabilitation (PSR) Groups
Children and Adolescent Services
641 W 63rd St
312-747-7496
Greater Grand/MID-South MHC
Children and Adolescent Services
4314 S Cottage Grove
312-747-7496
Greater Lawn MHC
Spanish speaking support group
Spanish speaking clinicians
Children and Adolescent Services
4150 W 55th St
312-747-1020
Tuesday and Thursday hours: 8:30 am – 7:30 pm
Lawndale MHC
Spanish speaking clinicians
Children and Adolescent Services
1105 S Western Ave
312-746-5909
Tuesday and Thursday hours: 8:30 am – 7:30 pm
North River MHC
Psychosocial Rehabilitation (PSR) Groups
Spanish speaking clinicians
Children and Adolescent Services
1105 S Western Ave
312-746-5909
Tuesday and Thursday hours: 8:30 am – 7:30 pm
City Services – Non-emergency
Dial 311
This includes:
HEATWAVE Cooling Centers
COLDWEATHER Warming Centers
Health and Sanitation Complaints
Services for People with Disabilities
312-744-7050
Jesse Brown VA Medical Center
312-569-8387
City of Chicago Domestic Violence Help Line
1-877-863-6338
Mental Health Services
Covenant House – Chicago – Hotline
312-759-7888
Heartland Health Outreach
773-751-4125
M-F 8am – 5pm
Lutheran Social Services
773-282-7800
M-Th 9am-9pm F 9am-5pm
Thresholds – Main Intake
773-572-5400
Thresholds – Mobile Crisis Response Team
Serves Chicago Zip codes 60613, 60604, and 60657
773-572-5400
Thresholds – The Living Room
Screening and assessment in a comfortable setting.
Can be helpful in preventing unnecessary psychiatric
hospitalizations
4423 N Ravenswood Ave
773-572-5400
Circle Family Care
773-276-1200
M-F 8am-5:30pm
Community Counseling Centers of Chicago
773-769-0205
24 hour crisis line
Trilogy – First-response Alternative Crisis Team
This is an alternative to calling 988
800-322-8400
Sarah’s Circle
773-728-1991
Women’s Services
West Side Community Triage and Wellness Center
4133 W Madison Ave
Crisis line: 773-645-0245
23-hour walk-in
designed to divert people from emergency rooms and
jails. This crisis line may call police.
HOMELESS SERVICES
Thresholds Mobile Assessment Unit
877-725-0572
Mental Health Assessment M-F
Northwestern Memorial Hospital Satellite
Clinic
312-926-8300
30 W Chicago, 3rd Floor
M 9am-4pm, Tu closed, W closed,
Th 9am-4pm, F 9am-4pm
Heartland Health Outreach
773-275-2568
(medical care, non-emergency, uninsured)
1015 W Lawrence
7:30am-4:30pm
Salvation Army Evangeline Booth Lodge Family
Shelter
773-275-9383
800 W Lawrence Ave
The Night Ministry
877-286-2523
Ages 14-20
The Crib Thresholds Shelter
773-549-4158
Ages 18-24 Overnight
835 W Addison
A Safe Haven
773-435-8300
Housing services, case management, behavioral
health, education, and job training.
Homeless Services for Men Only
Northside Housing Uptown Interim Program
773-564-9093
941 W Lawrence
Epworth Warming Center: Winter Only
941 W Lawrence
Sign up 8am-8:30am 7 days a week
Breakthrough Urban Ministries
773-346-1785
401 N St Louis
Day support 9am-3pm M-F
30 bed non-emergency shelter
Homeless Services for Women Only
Breakthrough Urban Ministries Youth/Family
Services
773-722-0179
3330 W Carroll
Day Support 9am-3pm M-F
30 bed non-emergency shelter
Sarah’s Circle
773-728-1991 x300
4750 N Sheridan #220
Drop-in 9am-3:30pm M-F
72
Deborah’s Place
1532 N Sedgwick
Dolores’ Safe Haven
312-944-8810
CRISIS SERVICES
Child Abuse or Neglect Hotline (DCFS)
800-252-2873
Community Counseling Centers of Chicago
773-769-0205
City of Chicago Domestic Violence Helpline
1-877-863-6338
Chicago Rape Crisis Hotline
888-293-2080
North Shore University Health System
847-570-2500
Northwestern Hospital
312-926-8100
Trilogy Clients Only
800-322-8400
SUBSTANCE ABUSE SERVICES
Lutheran Social Services
773-275-7962 x220
5517 N Kenmore
Detox and non-medical – call for availability
Haymarket
312-226-7984 x348
120 N Sangamon
24/7 Detox/Medical/Social
Bobby Wright Community Mental Health
773-722-7900
9 S Kedzie
9am-5pm M-F
Salvation Army Recovery House (residential)
312-421-5753
1515 W Monroe
walk-ins 7am, for appt call 8am-3pm
Illinois Helpline for Opiods and Other Substances
833-234-6343
or text HELP to 833234
Chicago Area
Illinois State
Suicide and Crisis Helpline
988
Veterans Crisis Line and
Spanish Language options are available
IL Warm Line
1-866-359-7953
This is not a crisis line, but is intended to address aspects of ones wellness.
M-Sat 8am-8pm
Human Rights Authority
708-338-7506
Illinois Safe Schools Alliance
ilsafeschools.org
The mission of the Illinois Safe Schools Alliance is to promote safety, support and healthy development for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) youth, in Illinois schools and communities, through advocacy, education, youth organizing and research.
Illinois Warplane – Illinois Mental Health Collaborative
866-359-7953
M-Sat 8am-8pm
Illinois Helpline for Opiods and Other Substances
833-234-6343
or text HELP to 833234
National Resources
Trans Lifeline
877-565-8860
Trans peer hotline
NO non-consensual active rescue (911, emergency services)
24 hours, if you do not get through call again. They do not put people on hold, so calling again is suggested.
translifeline.org
The Trevor Project Suicide Prevention Hotline
1-866-488-7386
or Text START 678-678
To end suicide among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer & questioning young people.
thetrevorproject.org
Black Line
1-800-604-5841
24/7 Text or Call Hotline: a space for peer support, counseling, witnessing and affirming the lived experiences to folx who are most impacted by systematic oppression with an LGBTQ+ Black Femme Lens.
Crisis Text Line
text HOME to
741741
Stronghearts Native Hotline
1-844-7NATIVE (762-8483)
Domestic and sexual abuse hotline
On-line chat available
strongheartshelpline.org
LGBTQ National Help Center
National Hotline 888-843-4564
National Youth Talkline 800-246-7743
National Senior Hotline 888-688-5428
National Coming Out Support 888-688-5428
DeQH
908-367-3374
Hotline for South Asian/Desi LGBTQ individuals, family, and friends.
Veterans Crisis Line
1-800-273-8255×1
or text 838255
National Runaway Safeline
If you are under 18 and need a safe place to stay
1-800-786-2929
National Sexual Assault Hotline (RAINN)
1-800-656-HOPE (1-800-656-4673)
Postpartum Support International Helpline
1-800-944-4773
English and Spanish speaking
or text in English – 800-944-4773
or text in Spanish 971-203-7773
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