Founded in 1970 as a suicide hotline in the basement of Birmingham city hall, the city’s Crisis Center now receives over 35,000 calls a year according to Executive Director Meg McGlamery.
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The center now hosts six phone lines in total which serve four main areas of focus: substance misuse, mental illness, suicide intervention and prevention, and sexual assault support services.
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