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The Philadelphia Inquirer
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Lifestyle
Lynette Hazelton

A year after the launch of 988, lack of trust and awareness an issue for the mental health hotline

PHILADELPHIA — Sappho Fulton's work with people experiencing homelessness requires her to navigate the community's mental health resources every day.

But there is a year-old resource that she hadn't heard about: 988, a three-digit national mental health and suicide prevention hotline.

"If anybody needs to know about 988, it's us," said Fulton, program director of the Michael Hinson Resource Center at 17th Street and Lehigh Avenue in North Philadelphia. "We need posters all around here."

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