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Welcome to Our Community Resources Hub

At Connections, Inc., we are proud to offer you a one-stop destination for discovering services, support, and opportunities in our community to improve your health, safety, and wellness. Whether you’re looking for help, hope, or a place to connect, this page features trusted resources across a range of categories:

  • Mental Health Crisis and Urgent Protection Information
  • Our Recommended Bookshelf

Building a Stronger Community, Together: Our Resources page reflects the strength, compassion, and cooperation of our community. We update it regularly, so if you know of a resource that should be listed, please send your suggestion to info@connections-inc.net.

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Mental Health Crisis and Urgent Protection Information

If you are experiencing a mental health crisis or just need someone to talk to when stressed or in fear for your safety, you are not alone. Support is available 24/7 through National crisis and warm lines.  You can also share these with your children as appropriate.

Please reach out — help is here when you need it. For emergency health or safety needs, CALL OR TEXT 911 IF YOU MUST STAY QUIET!!

988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline: The Lifeline provides 24/7, free, and confidential support to people in distress – you don’t need to be suicidal to reach out. Call 1-800-273-8255 to be connected with a crisis counselor. Crisis counselors who speak Spanish are available at 1-888-628-9454. 

988 Textline: When you text 988, you will complete a short survey letting the crisis counselor know a little about your situation. You will be connected with a trained crisis counselor in a crisis center who will answer the text, provide support, and share resources if needed.

Crisis Text Line: If you prefer texting to talking on the phone, text HELLO to 741-741 to be connected with a crisis counselor who will help you get through big emotions.

2-1-1: If you need assistance finding food, paying housing bills, accessing free childcare, or other essential services, visit 211.org or dial 211 to speak to someone who can help. 

Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline: If you or a child you know is being hurt or doesn’t feel safe at home, you can call or text 1-800-4-ACHILD (1-800-422-4453) or start an online chat at childhelp.org to reach a crisis counselor. They can help you figure out next steps to work through what is happening and to stay safe.

Indiana Child Abuse and Neglect Hotline 1-800-800-5556. If you are a child or suspect a child or friend is being abused or neglected, call the Indiana Department of Child Services’ Child Abuse and Neglect Hotline today. It is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, including weekends and holidays. You can report abuse and neglect anonymously.  

If you are “not sure’ what abuse or neglect looks like for yourself, it’s totally ok. Call them anyways to discuss your situation. 

Disaster Distress Helpline: A crisis line to support individuals when natural or man-made traumatic events occur, such as floods, earthquakes, and terrorist acts. The Helpline will provide information, support, and counseling. Call 1-800-985-5990.

Domestic Violence Hotline: If you’re experiencing domestic violence, looking for resources or information, or are questioning unhealthy aspects of your relationship, call 1-800-799-7233 or go to thehotline.org to virtually chat with an advocate.

Physician Support Line: The Physician Support Line is available at 1-888-409-0141 every day from 8 a.m. – 1:00 a.m. ET. Physician Support Line is a national, free, and confidential support line service made up of 600+ volunteer psychiatrists to provide peer support for other physicians and American medical students.

Teen Line: The Teen Line provides support, resources, and hope to young people through a hotline of professionally trained teen counselors, and outreach programs that destigmatize and normalize mental health. Call 800-852-8336 nationwide (6 p.m. – 10 p.m. PST) or text TEEN to 839863 (6 p.m. – 10 p.m. PST).

The Adolescent Addiction Access Program, (AAA) A Free provider-to-provider helpline, for Indiana providers caring for youth (aged 17 or younger) with Substance Use Disorders (SUD).  The AAA program also provides access to comprehensive diagnostic evaluations, outpatient psychotherapy, medication management and case management when needed. The hotline number is 317-278-8434 and email address is aaaprog@iu.edu.  They are staffed Monday through Friday 9-5, though you are free to leave a non-emergent message anytime.  

The Partnership for Drug-free Kids Helpline: Call 1-855-378-4373 if you are having difficulty accessing support for your family or a loved one struggling with addiction faces care or treatment challenges. The Partnership for Drug-free Kids’ specialists can guide you. Support is available in English and Spanish, from 9 a.m. – midnight ET on weekdays and noon-5 p.m. ET on weekends.

Veterans Crisis Line: This line connects veterans in crisis and their families and friends with qualified, caring Department of Veterans Affairs responders through a confidential toll-free hotline, online chat, or text. Open 24/7 call, 1-800-273-8255.

Warmlines: Warmlines are staffed by trained peers who have been through their own mental health struggles and know what it’s like to need someone to talk to. Warmlines are free and confidential. For more information on warmlines, visit www.warmlines.org

Our Recommended Bookshelf

Whether you’re seeking insight, encouragement, or practical tools, these books and curricula were recommended by our Connections staff as some of their favorites to offer valuable perspectives for your mental health or a family member.  Please consider adding them to your own library.  We also appreciate any other suggestions for books which have been helpful with your own personal or professional journey:

Children’s Mental Health

  1. Feeding the Mouth That Bites You: Parenting Teenagers into Adulthood:  Outlines a clear path to help parent teens in today’s world in practical terms. 
  2. He’s Mine: An uplifting and empowering story that celebrates the love between a son and his incarcerated father. 
  3. Precious Love: A story for children to show them that they are not the only ones dealing with step-parents, step-siblings, or absentee parents and to guide children and their caregivers toward conversations focused on family and love.
  4. The Worry Monster: Calming Anxiety with Mindfulness:  Provides children tools to calm their inner worry monster with mindful breathing, practicing gratitude, and gracefully surfing their worry wave.
  5. Eyes Are Never Quiet: Listening Beneath the Behaviors of Our Most Troubled Students: For educators, counselors, social workers, mental health professionals and law enforcement–this book presents the neurobiology of adversity and trauma in youth and the resilience of hope and mindfulness … and how to help.

Death, Dying & Grief

  1. Being Mortal- Medicine and What Matters in the End: Riveting, honest, and humane, Being Mortal shows how the ultimate goal is not a good death but a good life―all the way to the very end.
  2. Grief Day By Day: Simple Practices and Daily Guidance for Living with Loss: This grief recovery handbook offers daily reflections and practices that address the day-to-day emotions and experiences that accompany the grieving process so you can create a life in which peace―and even gratitude―can coexist with your grief.
  3. The Invisible String: The Invisible String offers a very simple approach to overcoming loneliness, separation, or loss with an imaginative twist that children easily understand and embrace and delivers a particularly compelling message in today’s uncertain times.
  4. It’s OK That You’re Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn’t Understand:  Offers a profound new approach to both the experience of grief and the way we try to help others who have endured tragedy. 
  5. On Death and Dying- What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families: In this book, explore the now-famous five stages of death: denial and isolation, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.
  6. When Breath Becomes Air:  When Breath Becomes Air is an unforgettable, life-affirming reflection on the challenge of facing death and on the relationship between doctor and patient.

Dementia

  1. The 36-Hour Day: A Family Guide to Caring for People Who Have Alzheimer’s Disease, Other Dementias and Memory Loss: The 36-Hour Day will help family members and caregivers address these challenges and simultaneously cope with their own emotions and needs.
  2. Losing My Mother Only to Find Where The Lights Get In: Tells the full story of a patient’s primary progressive aphasia—from her early-onset diagnosis at the age of 62 through the present day
  3. A Tattoo on My Brain: A Neurologist’s Personal Battle against Alzheimer’s Disease: Weaving clinical knowledge from decades caring for dementia patients with his personal experience of the disease, this is an optimistic tale of one man’s journey with early-stage Alzheimer’s disease

Mood Regulation 

  1. Aggression Replacement Training:  ART offers a powerful intervention for teaching at-risk youth to understand and replace aggression and antisocial behavior with positive alternatives
  2. The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook: Practical DBT Exercises: The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook, a collaborative effort from three esteemed authors, offers evidence-based, step-by-step exercises for learning these concepts and putting them to work for real and lasting change
  3. Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life: Emotional agility is a revolutionary, science-based approach that allows us to navigate life’s twists and turns with self-acceptance, clear-sightedness, and an open mind.
  4. Emotional Intelligence- Why it Can Matter More than IQ: Explains factors at work when people of high IQ struggle and those of modest IQ do surprisingly well. These factors, which include self-awareness, self-discipline, and empathy, add up to a different way of being smart.
  5. The Happiness Hypothesis: Explains why we have such difficulty controlling ourselves and sticking to our plans; why no achievement brings lasting happiness, and yet a few changes in your life can have profound effects. 
  6. The Happiness Project One-Sentence Journal: A Five-Year Record Gretchen Rubin’s year-long experiment to discover how to create true happiness
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  7. When the Body Says No: Exploring the Stress-Disease Connection: This book provides answers to important questions about the effect of the mind-body link on illness and health and the role that chronic stress and one’s individual emotional makeup play in an array of common diseases.

Neurodivergence

  1. Faster than Normal: Turbocharge Your Focus, Productivity and Success with the Secrets of the ADHD Brain: The author shares his hard-won insights and daily hacks for making ADHD a secret weapon for living a full and deeply satisfying life. Both inspiring and practical, the book presents life rules, best practices, and simple but powerful ways
  2. Nerdy, Shy and Socially Inappropriate: A User Guide to an Asperger Life: Describes how author’s perspective shifted to understanding a previously largely incomprehensible world and combines this with extensive research to explore the ‘why’ of ASD traits.
  3. Unmasking Autism for Life: The Autistic Person’s Guide to Connecting, Loving and Living Authentically: Provides the resources to help you advocate for your needs and invent new ways of living, loving, and being that work with your disability rather than against it. You’ll learn how to develop five key skills for living unmasked in all areas of life:
  4. Very Late Diagnosis of Asperger Syndrome: Explores what the individual may go through as they become aware of their Asperger characteristics and as they seek pre-assessment and diagnosis, as well as common reactions upon receiving a diagnosis
  5. Women and Girls on the Autism Spectrum:  The latest research with personal stories from girls and women on the autism spectrum to present a picture of their feelings, thoughts and experiences at each stage of their live

Positive Decisions & Personal Growth

  1. Good to Great: Discusses the universal distinguishing characteristics that cause a company to go from good to great?
  2. Let Them: The Let Them Theory offers a radical yet practical shift: let them. Let people think what they want. Let situations unfold. Let go of control—and take back your power.

Relationships

  1. Conscious Uncoupling: 5 Steps to Living Happily Even After: Discuss a path to the end of a relationship–one filled with mutual respect, kindness, and deep caring
  2. Love Me, Don’t Leave Me: Overcoming Fear of Abandonment and Building Lasting, Loving Relationships:  Therapist combines acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), schema therapy, and dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) to help you identify the root of your fears.
  3. Seven Principles for Making a Marriage Work- A Practical Guide: Presents the seven principles that guide couples on a path toward a harmonious and long-lasting relationship.

Stress Management

Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers: The Acclaimed Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases and Coping:  explains how prolonged stress causes or intensifies a range of physical and mental afflictions, including depression, ulcers, colitis, heart disease, and more. It also provides essential guidance to controlling our stress responses.

Substance Use Recovery

Seeking Safety: This manual presents the most widely adopted evidence-based treatment for co-occurring trauma and addiction. For clients facing one or both of these issues, the most urgent clinical need is to establish safety.

Trauma Recovery

  1. Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving: A Guide and Map for Recovering from Childhood Trauma: This book is a practical, user-friendly self-help guide to recovering from the lingering effects of childhood trauma, and to achieving a rich and fulfilling life.
  2. The Resilience Breakthrough: 27 Tools for Turning Adversity into Action: a practical primer on how you can become more resilient in a world of instability and narrowing opportunity, whether you’re facing financial troubles, health setbacks, challenges on the job, or any other problem.
  3. Self-Care for Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents:   In this compassionate guide, you’ll find tips and tools to help you set boundaries with others, honor and validate your emotions, and thrive in the face of life’s challenges.
  4. What Happened to You?: What Happened to You provides powerful scientific and emotional insights into the behavioral patterns so many of us struggle to understand.

Other Evidenced Based Curricula

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration:  SAMHSA leads public health and service delivery efforts that treat mental illness, especially serious mental illness, prevent substance abuse and addiction, and provide treatments and supports to foster recovery while ensuring access and better outcomes for all.

The California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare: Our mission is to advance the effective implementation of evidence-based practices for children and families involved with the child welfare system. 

The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention:  OJJDP produces different types of publications and products, including newsletters, bulletins, fact sheets, reports, guides and data snapshots to provide leadership in best practices for youth in contact with the justice system.