Need Help with an Immediate Crisis?

Call 911 or 311 day or night

FOR A NON-LIFE-THREATENING BUT URGENT MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS: 

• Call the Pierce County Crisis Line available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week 1-800-576-7764

• Call the CRISIS LINE for King County: 1-206-461-3222

IF YOU OR SOMEONE YOU KNOW IS HAVING SUICIDAL THOUGHTS: 

• Call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week  1-800-273-TALK (8255)

Useful Websites

• The PubMed website is a free search engine for medical research

• Help getting health insurance

  • http://www.healthcare.gov/index.html

  • www.insurance.wa.gov/consumers/health

Support for Addictions

12 Step Resources

• Alcoholics Anonymous

• Edgewood: 1-206-458-6651 (Seattle)

• Residence XII: 1-425-823-8844 (Seattle)

Non-12 Step Resources

• A POSITIVE ALTERNATIVE: 1-206—547-1955

• Integrative Counseling Services: 1-206-216-5000

• Alternative meetings to AA

• There are a number of other non-12 step self-help groups available to the public. Ones we are most familiar with are:

  • LifeRing Secular Recovery (LSR)

  • SMART Recovery: Self Management Recovery Training

  • Secular Organization for Sobriety (SOS)

Support for Families who have family members who are challenged with addictions or mental illness:

• Changes Parent Support Network

• National Alliance for Mental Illness (NAMI)

• National Allance for Mental Illness of Pierce County

• Al-Anon: strength for friends and families of problem drinkers