For immediate emergency medical care please call 911.
¶ Who to Call PGH
About: Alternative to calling the Police. Please note that this list is not a complete/comprehensive list. One way to make police obsolete is to stop calling them. There are plenty of other more competent and compassionate services out there.
Email: yourneighborpgh@gmail.com
Click here for the full list
¶ The Trevor Project
24/7 suicide hotline for LGBTQ+
Phone: 1-866-488-7386
Text: ‘START’ to 678-678
Online Chat: https://www.thetrevorproject.org/get-help/
¶ Trans Lifeline
Run by and for trans people. Phones operates 1pm-9pm Monday-Friday.
Phone: 877-565-8860
https://translifeline.org/
¶ 24/7 Crisis Text Line
Trained crisis counselors. Can provide resources or just act as company for someone to vent to.
Text HOME to 741741
https://www.crisistextline.org/
¶ Women's Center and Shelter of PGH
Phone 24/7: 412-687-8005
Text and Chat: https://www.wcspittsburgh.org/
Community Praise: Works with trans women
¶ Allegheny County Peer Support Warmline
Staffed with local community members 9:00 am – 1:00 AM daily
Phone: 1-866-661-9276
https://www.peer-support.org/warmline
¶ National Su/c/de Prevention Lifeline
24/7 responses
Phone (VP/VRS compatible): 988
Text and Chat: https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/
¶ Pittsburgh Action Aginst R*pe
24/7 Help Line: 1-866-363-7273
https://paar.net
¶ R*pe Abust Incest National Network
24/7 help line
Phone: 800-656-4673
Text: HOPE to 64673
Whatsapp and online chat: https://www.rainn.org/about-national-sexual-assault-telephone-hotline
¶ United Way Helpline
Connections to local resources 24/7
Phone: 211
https://www.pa211.org
¶ Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Helpline
24/7 Help line
Phone: 1-800-662-4357
TTY: 1-800-487-4889
Text: Send your ZIP Code to 435748
https://www.samhsa.gov/find-help/national-helpline
¶ Prevention Point PGH
Drug use harm reduction services in Pittsburgh
10am-5pm Monday-Friday
Phone: 412-247-3404
https://www.pppgh.org/
¶ National Alliance On Mental Illness
Monday Through Friday, 10:00 AM – 10:00 PM
Call: 1-800-950-6264
Text: NAMI to 62640
Email: helpline@nami.org
https://www.nami.org/Home
¶ Re;solve Crisis Services
Pittsburgh-based mental health support
24/7 Crisis Line: 1-888-796-8226
https://www.upmc.com/services/behavioral-health/resolve-crisis-services
** Note: We've receeived reports that Re;solve will call police **
¶ Allegheny Link
Connections and resources for those facing housing instability in Allegheny County
Monday - Friday 8am - 5pm
Phone: 1-866-730-2368
https://www.alleghenycounty.us/human-services/about/contact/allegheny-link.aspx
¶ Central Outreach
LGBTQIA+ Medical resources
Monday/Thursday 9-7
Tuesday/Wednesday 9-5
Friday 10-5
Phone: 412-322-4151
https://www.centraloutreach.com/
¶ Community Human Services
Connections to case workers for food and housing in Pittsburgh
Phone 8:30am - 4pm: 412-246-1600
https://chscorp.org/
¶ National Lines That Don't Call Police
Compiled by trans-axolotl on Tumblr then shared to Reddit
Many mental health hotlines will call the cops on you if they deem you a danger to yourself or others. This is especially problematic due to the police's horrible track record for murdering the mentally ill. Here is a list of warmlines and hotlines that DON'T call the cops
Click here for the full list
¶ Trans Lifeline
Run by and for trans people. Phones operates 1pm-9pm Monday-Friday.
Phone: 877-565-8860
https://translifeline.org/
¶ BlackLine:
Peer support, counseling, reporting of mistreatment, witnessing and affirming the lived experiences of LGBTQ+ POC.
9am-11pm
Phone: 1 (800) 604-5841
Chat available through the website/App
https://www.callblackline.com/
¶ The Plural Warmline
(No number, check the site)
https://thepluralwarmline.org/warmline/
¶ Promise Resource Network:
Peer Support Warm Line
Monday-Friday: 5:30pm - 1am
Saturday-Sunday: 1pm - 9pm
English and Spanish: 888-448-9777
https://www.prpsn.org/warm-line
¶ Wildflower Alliance Peer Support Line:
7pm to 9pm ET Monday through Thursday
7pm to 10pm ET Friday through Sunday
Call: 888.407.4515
https://wildfloweralliance.org/peer-support-line/
¶ MBRLC Peer Support Line:
Boston-based mental health support line
4pm-8pm Daily
Phone: 877-733-7563
https://www.mbrlc.org/peer-support-line
¶ US Warmline Directory
(unlikely to call cops, but check with the individual line first)
https://warmline.org/
Original Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/PeerRespite/comments/14xg19x/list_of_warmlines_and_hotlines_that_dont_call_the/
¶ Our Streets Collective
About: Crisis support and street therapy available through text messaging. They can also provide resources for housing referrals, food, legal aid, outdoor living supplies, harm reduction, and more.
Phone: text “help” to 1-844-779-6749
Website: https://www.ourstreetscollective.org/contact
Community Praise: They do not call police
Communtiy Concern: Long wait times for replies. Website says they're working to fix this as of Feb. 2026
¶ Interrupting Criminalization
About: We can think through intervention design, implementation, strategies, outreach, building and supporting your team/collective, ethical dilemmas, and long-term planning for addressing violence without using the state. We can also think through problems or sticking points in the work to make your project, intervention, facilitator process or political work more value aligned and impactful.
Website: https://www.interruptingcriminalization.com/transformative-justice-help-desk
¶ SWOP Behind Bars
About: We are sex workers and survivors assisting other sex workers and survivors with issues including crisis support around assault or arrest, sex positive resources for medical and mental health, and housing and transportation requests.
Phone: 1-877-776-2004 toll-free
Website: https://www.swopbehindbars.org/programs-and-services
¶ Resolve Crisis Center
About: Offers: • Phone counseling • Mobile crisis unit • Walk-in center • Residential services • Child and adolescent crisis team
Address: 333 North Braddock Ave, Pittsburgh, Pa 15208
Crisis line: 1-888-7YOU-CAN (796-8226)
Non-urgent line: (412) 864-5004
Note: Will call police and involuntary commit