2-1-1 Texas  helps you find free information on services in your area providing food, shelter, rent assistance, utility bill assistance, counseling, child care, after-school programs, senior services, disaster relief and other programs in your area.

Dial 2-1-1 from any area code in Texas to receive information about services in your area.

If you or someone you know is in immediate danger, call 911.

Help is available to callers 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Hotline advocates are available for victims and anyone calling on their behalf to provide crisis intervention, safety planning, information and referrals to agencies in all 50 states, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands. Assistance is available in English and Spanish with access to more than 170 languages through interpreter services.

If you or someone you know is frightened about something in a relationship, please call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 800-799-SAFE (7233) or TTY 800-787-3224. 

At any given moment, more than 1,100 trained volunteers are on duty and available to help victims at Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network-affiliated crisis centers across the country.

Call 1-800-656-4673 or visit the RAINN website to get help.

Through an interagency agreement with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), CMHS staff helps to ensure that victims of Presidentially declared disasters received immediate, short-term crisis counseling, as well as ongoing support for emotional recovery. CMHS collaborates with FEMA to train State mental health staff to develop crisis counseling training and preparedness efforts in their States.

The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) offers a central location to report child abuse and neglect; elderly or adults with disabilities abuse, neglect, or exploitation; abuse of children in licensed child-care facilities or treatment centers for the entire State of Texas; and abuse of clients served by the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) or Texas Department of Aging and Disability Services (DADS) employees in State Hospitals or State Schools.

Report Abuse: 1-800-252-5400

Texas Runaway Hotline volunteer telephone counselors are dedicated to helping youths and families in need of assistance. After we've talked about your problem, we will help you consider your choices and develop a sensible solution.  There are no costs for our services. Hotline staff and volunteers do not take runaway reports. Callers do not have to give us their names or locations.

Call the 24-hour crisis line at 888-580-4357.