{"id":727,"date":"2026-06-26T23:10:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T23:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/?p=727"},"modified":"2026-06-26T23:10:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T23:10:02","slug":"federal-lgbtq-youth-hotline-could-relaunch-without-its-primary-advocate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/?p=727","title":{"rendered":"Federal LGBTQ+ Youth Hotline Could Relaunch Without Its Primary Advocate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p>The Trump administration will restore a crisis prevention hotline for LGBTQ+ youth later this year, potentially without involving the leading organization that handled roughly half of its operations.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/?p=725\">Trump Says Iran Attack on Strait Ship Violates Ceasefire Deal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Trevor Project, a nonprofit organization that provides suicide and crisis prevention to LGBTQ+ youth, may be ineligible to manage the hotline after being removed from the 988 Suicide &amp; Crisis Lifeline network \u2014 a collection of more than 200 local and regional contact centers across the country that are certified to answer mental health crisis calls. Callers could use the \u201cPress 3 option\u201d to access LGBTQ-centered resources, but the Trevor Project lost its active network status after the administration <span><u>shuttered the only service<\/u><\/span> it provided last June.<\/p>\n<p>Six other crisis centers that also worked on the program remain active because they also work with the general population.<\/p>\n<p>Congress instructed the Department of Health and Human Services to restore the specialized hotline after  $33.1 million to fund the service \u2014 but only active 988 network members can apply to field calls for the renewed service.<\/p>\n<p>The Trevor Project managed roughly half of the \u201cPress 3\u201d contacts prior to its termination, a spokesperson for the organization said, adding that it has not received any communication about the restoration from HHS nor the 988 network administrator, Vibrant Emotional Health.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/?p=723\">Texas Approves Required Reading List Including Bible Stories<\/a><\/p>\n<p>An HHS spokesperson said the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration was working to \u201cresume operations of specialized services for LGBTQ+ youth by the end of the year,\u201d but did not respond to questions about the future of the Trevor Project\u2019s role. Vibrant Emotional Health did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Trevor Project CEO Jaymes Black said in a statement that the organization\u2019s possible omission raises concerns about whether the \u201cnext iteration\u201d of the hotline may exclude transgender and nonbinary youth \u2014 populations the Trump administration has <span><u>increasingly targeted.<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis troubling development indicates a dangerous step toward degrading the clinical standards to serve high risk groups that the \u2018press 3\u2019 specialized services were founded on,\u201d Black said. \u201cWhile anti-LGBTQ+ politics may be altering the very purpose of this lifeline created to help save young LGBTQ+ lives, it is critical to make clear that politics has no place in suicide prevention.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/?p=721\">Pete Buttigieg Says He Was Questioned by CPS After a False Report<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trevor Project, which handled roughly half of the crisis prevention hotline\u2019s traffic, may be ineligible to manage it again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-u-s-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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