REACHOUT of St. Lawrence County, Inc.
    P.O. Box 5051
    Potsdam, New York 13676-5051
    (315) 265-2422
    Karen Butler Easter, Executive Director

    Reachout is a free, confidential, non-judgmental crisis and information hotline serving residents of St. Lawrence County. We focus on crisis services and supportive listening, although we provide a host of other services as needed. We answer after-hours for many other human services agencies in St. Lawrence County, and we connect callers with staff from other programs. We operate a mobile crisis team that sends trained counselors to meet and assess people at risk at locations all around the county. We teach suicide intervention skills all around New York, and we've developed many programs to help make communities safer from suicide.

    Want to help? Reachout needs thoughtful, dedicated, reliable people to volunteer on the phone lines. We offer training twice a year to introduce people to hotline training, and we provide a comprehensive training program to prepare them. If you'd like to help save lives in St. Lawrence County, please apply for our training program. Thanks!

    Serving St. Lawrence County, New York since 1977.

    Services

    Telephone Crisis intervention and Information & Referral Hotline
      Established 1976
      Comprehensive 24-hour hotline serving all St. Lawrence County residents
      Staffing: 30-70 trained volunteers plus professional staff
      Statistics: Over 28,000 calls logged in 2005
      Alcohol/drug related -- 25%
      Family Violence -- 22%
      Mental Health related -- 80%
      Basic Needs -- 15%

    To contact us, please write to reachout at reachoutNOSPAMhotline dot org or call us at (315) 265-2422.

    Reachout is a member of the national Alliance of Information and Referral Systems, the NYS Alliance of Information and Referral Systems, and the American Association of Suicidology. Our staff are also members and officers of the National Association of Crisis Center Directors.