Resources

Local & National Crisis Resources

ReSolve Crisis Network (Allegheny County 24/7 Crisis Line): 1-888-7-YOU-CAN (796-8226)
Pittsburgh Action Against Rape: Pittsburgh Action Against Rape (24/7 Support Line): 1-866-END-RAPE (363-7273)
Pittsburgh Center for Victims Crisis Line – 1-866-644-2882
Greater Pittsburgh Women’s Center and Shelter: 412-687-8005 or text 412-744-8445 9 AM – 9 PM
Pittsburgh Warmline (Peer Support 10 am – Midnight daily): 1-866-661-WARM (9276)
Pittsburgh Casa San José (Immigration Emergency Line): 412-736-7167
UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital: 412-624-1000 or toll free at 1-877-624-4100
Crisis Text Line: text HOME to 741741
National Suicide Prevention Hotline : 1-800-273-TALK (8255)
National Postpartum Support Warmline– 1-800-944-4PPD (4773)
LGBT National Hotline – 1-888-843-4564
Trevor Line: 1-866-488-7386 or text START to 678-678
GLBT National Help Center: 1-888-843-4564 or 1-800-246-7743 (for those age 25 and under)
National Trans Lifeline: 1-877-565-8860

SisTers and BroThers PGH
Pittsburgh Casa San José
Pittsburgh JFCS Refugee & Immigration Services
Inside Our Minds: peer-controlled, radical mental health organization that works to elevate the voices of people with lived experience of mental illness, madness, and other conceptualizations of mental health. Offers subsidized, community-based radical mental health programming at no cost to participants.
Alliance for Police Accountability Activism is Love Program: Activist education & identity development for folx 16-26
Hearing Voices Network: support group for people who experience visions, voices, or other extreme states of consciousness.
Mood Peers Pittsburgh: mental health support group
Alcoholics Anonymous
AlAnon: for friends and loved ones of folx living with addiction
Overeaters Anonymous: disordered eating support; inclusive of all disordered eating behaviors
Sex Workers Outreach Project

Be Well Pittsburgh: healthcare options for the uninsured
Pittsburgh Mutual Aid: receive or give help with buying groceries/food, running errands, financial assistance, finding housing, and more
Steel Smiling: mental health funding for Black residents of Allegheny county
Feel Safe Wireless: free phone and phone service (calls, text, & data) through PA government
Text Now: phone service (calls & text) for all budgets, including $0
Internet Essentials: service through Comcast offering two months of free internet ($9.95/mo thereafter)
Free computers for low-income families
Pitt & Greater Community Resource Guide

Healing Sex: A MindBody Approach to Healing Sexual Trauma (Staci Haines)
Come as You Are (Emily Nagoski)
The Jealousy Workbook (Kathy Labriola)
Pleasure Activism (adrienne maree brown)
The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intime Violence Within Activist Communities (Chen)
Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement (Dixon)
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice (Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha)
Me and White Supremacy (Layla F. Saad)
In My Grandmother’s Hands (Resmaa Menakem)
The Body Keeps the Score (Bessel Van Der Kolk)
Women Who Run With the Wolves (Clarissa Pinkola Estés)
The Moon Book: Lunar Magic to Change Your Life (Sarah Faith Gottesdiener)
Motherpeace Tarot (Katherine Vogel and Vicki Noble)
She is Sitting in the Night (Oliver Pickle)
Why Are People Into That? Podcast
Sex Gets Real Podcast
Sex Nerd Sandra Podcast
Therapy for Black Girls Podcast
Where Shall We Begin Podcast
Scarleteen (Sex-positive sex education)