Where to Turn:
If you or someone you love is being abused

Boys Town National Hotline--Call if you have any problems and would like to talk to someone or need help. Calls from Canada are welcome.  

Childhelp USA/IO Foresters National Child Abuse Hotline--Call if you need help or would like to talk with someone, or if you want to report child abuse or need  information about making a report.  

Covenant House Nineline--Call if you are thinking about running away, or if you ran away but would like to talk or send a message to your parents.  

National Youth Crisis Hotline--Provides service for children and youth who are abused, suicidal, chemically dependent, depressed over family or school problems, runaway or abandoned. 
Child Abuse Hotline  -  1-800-342-3720  

Youth Crisis Hotline

National Child Abuse Hotline  -  1-800-792-5200 

National Center for Missing & Exploited Children  - 1-800-843-5678 

Boys Town National Hotline  -  1-800-448-3000 

For children and parents in any type of personal crisis. Trained counselors will provide help in abusive relationships, parent-child conflicts, pregnancy, runaway youth, suicide, physical and sexual abuse. 
Operates 24 hours. 

Suicide prevention hotline   -  1-800-827-7571 

Provides crisis intervention and travel assistance to runaways. Referrals to shelters nationwide. Relays messages to set up conference calls to parent at the request of the child. 
Operates 24 hours

National Runaway Hotline  -  1-800-231-6946 

Provides information and referral for shelter, counseling, medical, and legal services and transportation back home. Operates a personal, confidential message relay service between runaways and their families. 
Operates 24 hours

 Crisis line for youth, teens, and families. Locally based referrals throughout the United  States. Help for youth and parents regarding drugs, abuse, homelessness, runaway children,  and message relays.   Operates 24 hours. 

Just For Kids Hotline  -  1-888-594-KIDS 

Operation Lookout/National Center for Missing Youth  - 1-800-782-7335 

Suicide prevention hotline   -  1-800-827-7571 

Father Flanagan's Boys Home (Boys Town), 14100 Crawford St., Boys Town, NE 68010, (402) 498-1301. Boys Town operates a variety of in and out of home services for children and families which includes, a residential treatment center, residential services, emergency shelter, family preservation, treatment foster care, and parenting classes in 13 states. The Boys Town National Training Center offers training to other child-care professionals, school districts, mental health facilities, and other organizations. Boys Town also operates a national toll free hotline for youth problems, (800) 448-3000. 

National Directory of Hotlines and Crisis Intervention Centers, Covenant House Nineline, 346 W. 17th St., New York, NY 10011, (800) 999-9999, TDD 800) 999-9915. Twenty four hour nationwide hotline for runaways and troubled youth and their families. Offer referrals to services in caller's local area. Conference calls and message relays to runaways who wish to speak with their parents. 

Childhelp USA/IOF Foresters National Child Abuse Hotline, toll free (800) 422-4453 or (800) 4-A-Child. The National Child Abuse Hotline provides crisis counseling, child abuse reporting information, and information and referrals for every county in the United States. Referrals include national, state, and local agencies. The hotline is staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week by mental health professionals. 

The National Children's Advocacy Center, Local Intervention Program,106 Lincoln St., Huntsville, AL 35801, (205) 533-KIDS. The center provides child protective services, law enforcement, prosecution, mental health, medicine, education, and other resources in a model community response to child sexual abuse. The center sponsors training conferences, disseminates research findings, and technical assistance. 

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