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With 988 Hotline Launching Soon, More Workers Needed at Crisis Centers

Chad Madden
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The 988 crisis line launches in Pennsylvania in two months – providing an easy-to-remember phone number for people who need mental health resources or someone to talk to. Transforming Health’s Brett Sholtis reports, there’s a pressing need for more people to take those calls.

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(Original air-date: 5/8/22)

Brett Sholtis is a health reporter for WITF/Transforming Health. Sholtis is the 2021-2022 Reveal Benjamin von Sternenfels Rosenthal Grantee for Mental Health Investigative Journalism with the Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism. His award-winning work on problem areas in mental health policy and policing helped to get a woman moved from a county jail to a psychiatric facility. Sholtis is a University of Pittsburgh graduate and a Pennsylvania Army National Guard Kosovo campaign veteran.