Emergency Resources
Crisis Text Line
Text HOME to 741741 from anywhere in the United States, anytime. Crisis Text Line is here for any crisis. A live, trained Crisis Counselor receives the text and responds, all from our secure online platform.
Youth Suicide Hotline
Connect to a crisis counselor 24/7, 365 days a year, from anywhere in the U.S. It is 100% confidential, and 100% free.
The Trevor Project
Call: 1-866-488-7386
Text: 678-678
Resource for LGBTQ+ Youth to immediately reach a trained counselor via Call, text or chat. Available 24/7, 365 days a year.
Trans Lifeline
Trans Lifeline provides trans peer support for our community that’s been divested from police since day one. We’re run by and for trans people.
Local
Nashville and the surrounding areas
ELCA Southeastern Synod
The Southeastern Synod is made up of 160 congregations and new starts across Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, and Tennessee. Together we extend our ministry and our reach around the country and around the world.
Free Mom Hugs - Tennessee
This is the Tennessee State Chapter of Free Mom Hugs. Our Mission Statement: Empowering the world to Celebrate the LGBTQIA+ Community through visibility, education, and conversation. And yes, we still give hugs.
Human Rights Campaign - Tennessee
The Human Rights Campaign fights for LGBTQ+ equality alongside lawmakers at the local and state levels across the country. Find out what HRC is doing in Tennessee and how you can help secure equal rights for all of its LGBTQ+ citizens.
Music City PrEP Clinic
Our mission is to get to zero new HIV transmissions in Nashville and Middle Tennessee. We work toward this by providing free PrEP and PEP prescriptions regardless of income or insurance status. Our services include discreet, no-cost lab testing for HIV and bacterial STDs, plus hepatitis A, B, and C testing.
NAMI - Tennessee
NAMI Tennessee is a grassroots, non-profit, self-help organization made up of people with mental illness, their families and community members. We are dedicated to improving quality of life for people with mental illness and their families through support, education and advocacy.
PFLAG Nashville
PFLAG Nashville provides free support for parents, family, and friends of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. We are here to listen, encourage, guide, and assist you as you work to understand what it means to be LGBT.
National
ELCA
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) is one of the largest Christian denominations in the United States. By God’s grace we can and do live confidently and generously in this community of faith and in service of others, amid the mysteries and paradoxes of this life in Christ.
Free Mom Hugs
Through our programs and initiatives, we provide opportunities for presentations, panel discussions and conversations. We foster change for corporations, high schools, churches, universities, and many other groups.
GLSEN
Every day GLSEN works to ensure that LGBTQ students are able to learn and grow in a school environment free from bullying and harassment. Together, we can transform our nation’s K-12 schools into the safe and affirming environment all youth deserve.
Human Rights Campaign
Our goal is to ensure that all LGBTQ+ people, and particularly those of us who are trans, people of color and HIV+, are treated as full and equal citizens within our movement, across our country and around the world.
Mama Bears
The Real Mama Bears organization is a network of groups, websites, special projects & resources dedicated to supporting, educating and empowering families with LGBTQ members and the LGBTQ Community.
NAMI
NAMI is the National Alliance on Mental Illness, the nation’s largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to building better lives for the millions of Americans affected by mental illness.
PFLAG
PFLAG’s network of hundreds of chapters and more than 325,000 members and supporters works to create a caring, just, and affirming world for LGBTQ+ people and those who love them.
SAMHSA
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) is the agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that leads public health efforts to reduce the impact of substance abuse and mental illness on America's communities.