Missouri 988 Messaging Champions Initiative
This interactive course equips you with knowledge, language, and ready-to-use messaging tools to confidently share accurate, hopeful, and stigma-reducing information about 988 across your community.
As a Missouri 988 Champion, you will:
- Understand how the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline works in Missouri
- Learn why early awareness saves lives
- Gain clear, research-informing messaging you can share confidently
- Access customizable materials to promote 988 in your networks
- Help strengthen Missouri’s crisis response system through education and advocacy
988 is more than a phone number. It is a direct connection to trained crisis specialists available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, providing compassionate and confidential support to individuals and families facing emotional distress, mental health challenges, or substance use concerns.
By becoming a Missouri 988 Champion, you help ensure that every Missourian knows help is only three digits away.
Whether you serve youth, families, veterans, rural communities, professionals, or the general public, your voice matters. When trusted community members share the message, awareness grows, stigma decreases, and more lives are supported before crises escalate.
Whether you serve youth, families, veterans, rural communities, professionals, or the general public, your voice matters. When trusted community members share the message, awareness grows, stigma decreases, and more lives are supported before crises escalate.
Join the initiative.
Strengthen your community.
Help save lives.
Start by watching the modules, then complete the form to receive the presentation in your email inbox.
