The state’s 988 suicide had the nation’s fifth highest rate of abandoned calls in August, the latest data available, amid a multi-million funding deficit that could worsen as federal dollars expire this year.

Texas’s 988 suicide hotline had 18,000 abandonned calls from January to August 2024 amid a funding defecit (Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.) Thousands of calls are being abandoned as Texas’s suicide hotline faces a $7 million funding deficit,

Thousands of Texans in need are abandoning the state’s suicide hotline mid-call every month as call centers struggle under a $7 million funding deficit and a gr