Crisis Connection

Imagine an organization with a goal of providing free help to any problem immediately 24 hours a day 365 days a year. Impossible? It is without volunteers. Crisis Connection is a non-profit mental health telephone counseling service in the Minneapolis and Saint Paul metro area. They are dedicated to helping people with personal and family problems and crises through telephone counseling as well as through professional training and community education services.

Individuals call Crisis Connection for help with a wide variety of issues, including depression, suicide, abuse, family and relationship problems. If you are interested in being a volunteer phone counselor you will receive extensive training and ongoing support. You can also be involved 'off the phone' in a variety of capacities: administrative support, newsletter support, fundraising and special events to name just a few.

The mission of Crisis Connection is clear - Provide a listening ear to anyone with a problem 24 hours a day. And even though they have helped thousands of people in the Twin Cities in desperate situations - due to a lack of volunteers more than 10,000 calls went unanswered last year.

Please visit their website: www.crisis.org for more information on how you can get involved with this essential organization.