Urgent need, crisis, abuse concern, or service breakdown
Get immediate Utah crisis help
Call 911 for physical danger or a life-threatening emergency; otherwise call or text 988 for crisis support.
Official sources checked 2026-07-29
Start here
Call or text Utah 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 DSPD intake or waiting-list worker, transition worker, support coordinator, Utah Medicaid or DWS, provider, crisis, or protective-report route that owns this step.
Step by step
- For physical danger, a life-threatening situation, a weapon, overdose, or an immediate emergency, call 911.
- For emotional, mental-health, suicide, or substance-use crisis support, call or text 988; state that you are in Utah if the phone number has a non-Utah area code.
- After immediate safety, notify the current DSPD owner 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.
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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 crisis and DSPD teams to name the post-crisis owner.
Beyond Childhood planning aid
Get immediate Utah 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 Call or text Utah 988
Official resources
Limits
911, 988, mobile crisis, receiving centers, DSPD 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.