Urgent need, crisis, abuse concern, or service breakdown
Get immediate Alabama crisis help
Call 911 for immediate danger and call or text 988 for mental-health, suicide, substance-use, or emotional crisis support.
Official sources checked 2026-07-29
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Call or text Alabama 988Before you start
- Current location, immediate danger, communication needs, diagnoses, medications, medical risks, triggers, calming strategies, trusted contacts, service plan, provider and support-coordinator details, and recent changes.
Who to contact
Use the DD Call Center, designated support coordination agency, Regional Community Services Office, support coordinator, provider, Waiver Appeals Office, crisis service, or protective-report route that owns this step.
Step by step
- For immediate danger or a medical, fire, or law-enforcement emergency, call 911.
- For mental-health, suicide, substance-use, or emotional crisis, call or text 988.
- After immediate safety, notify the support coordinator and provider and request documented follow-up and plan correction.
Expected next
A crisis response plus a named follow-up owner, stabilization or discharge plan, referral, assessment, plan update, or service correction.
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Contact times, responders, event facts, discharge material, notifications, referrals, and updated plan.
If this stalls or the answer is no
Escalate according to immediate risk and ask emergency, crisis, and service-system contacts to name the post-crisis owner.
Beyond Childhood planning aid
Get immediate Alabama crisis help checklist
A Beyond Childhood planning aid derived from the cited official sources.
- Owner and program
- Date started
- Documents supplied
- Written result or confirmation
- Current open dependency
- Next event and date
- Escalation contact
Derived from Find the Alabama DD Regional Office for your county, Call or text Alabama 988
Official resources
Limits
911, 988, Regional Office on-call contacts, support coordination, and provider follow-up are different routes. Crisis contact does not itself change eligibility, list position, authorization, or ongoing services.
Beyond Childhood’s checklists and prompts are planning aids derived from official sources. They are not official forms, legal advice, eligibility decisions, or guarantees of funding, capacity, quality, or service.