More people are using a new nationwide suicide crisis hotline. In the six months since the 988 hotline was launched, there has been an increase in calls and texts to it from New Jersey. Now the focus is shifting to whether communities have enough resources to respond to those calls.
Representatives from the Department of Human Services held a listening session in Sayreville Tuesday to better understand what the community would like to see from new mobile response units that will be sent out to a home or location where a 988 crisis call was made.
