Bruce Mirken"These findings add urgency to the call for the federal government to restore the #LGBTQ+ youth option for its national 988 #Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, which was discontinued in 2025. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has since promised to restore the LGBTQ+ hotline program, and asserted to Congress on April 21 that Health and Human Services was 'working on getting it up now.' But more than a month later, the line remains down, and every day without the service leaves young people without critical support."
