Urgent need, crisis, abuse concern, or service breakdown
Get immediate Tennessee crisis help
Call 911 for immediate danger or emergency response; otherwise call or text 988 and press 0 for Tennessee crisis support.
Official sources checked 2026-07-29
Start here
Use Tennessee crisis services and 988Before you start
- Current location, immediate danger, communication needs, diagnoses, medications, medical risks, triggers, calming strategies, contacts, plan, and recent changes.
Who to contact
Use the official TennCare, MCO, DDA regional intake, LTSS Help Desk, Beneficiary Support System, crisis, or protective-reporting route that owns this step.
Step by step
- For immediate danger or a medical, police, or fire emergency, call 911.
- For suicide, mental-health, substance-use, or emotional crisis support, call or text 988 and press 0.
- After immediate safety, notify the support coordinator and provider and request documented follow-up and plan review.
Expected next
A crisis response plus a named follow-up owner, referral, assessment, plan update, or service correction.
Save this proof
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 crisis and ECF teams to name the post-crisis owner.
Beyond Childhood planning aid
Get immediate Tennessee 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 Use Tennessee crisis services and 988
Official resources
Limits
911, 988, mobile crisis, walk-in centers, crisis stabilization, MCO response, support coordination, and provider procedures have different roles.
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.