Federal LGBTQ+ Youth Hotline Could Relaunch Without Its Primary Advocate
The Trevor Project, which handled roughly half of the crisis prevention hotline’s traffic, may be ineligible to manage it again.
Congress instructed the Department of Health and Human Services to restore the specialized hotline after allocating $33.1 million to fund the service — but only active 988 network members can apply to field calls for the renewed service. Jenny Kane/AP
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