{"id":71111,"date":"2025-07-17T23:08:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T23:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/71111\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T23:08:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T23:08:08","slug":"lgbtq-suicide-hotline-shutdown-sparks-concern-for-philly-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/71111\/","title":{"rendered":"LGBTQ+ suicide hotline shutdown sparks concern for Philly community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? <a href=\"#Section1\">Let us know!<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>Suicide rates among LGBTQ+ youth are sobering. Three years ago, an initiative to curb those statistics was added to the national suicide hotline to provide services and support.\n<\/p>\n<p>Today, it\u2019s been eliminated as the Trump administration\u2019s decision to remove the option on the hotline went into effect Thursday.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I was still finding myself out, I was still going through a lot of definite suicide thoughts, and a 988 was a huge resource,\u201d said Abdul Samad, 16, a member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/atticyouthcenter.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Attic Youth Center<\/a> in South Philly. The organization provides aid to the LGBTQ+ community, gives psychological support programs for Philadelphia residents and works to assess community needs.\n  <\/p>\n<p>According to a national survey by The Trevor Project in 2024, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetrevorproject.org\/survey-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">39% of LGBTQ+ young people seriously considered attempting suicide over a year\u2019s time<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhenever I felt like no one was there, I was able to talk to someone,\u201d Samad said about the hotline.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-708763\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/attic-youth-center-2025-2.jpg\" alt=\"Autumn Getnain and Abdul Samad smile\" width=\"2215\" height=\"1476\"  \/>Autumn Getnain (left) and Abdul Samad (right) pictured at The Attic Youth center library (Eric Nixon\/WHYY)\n<\/p>\n<p>Last month, the Trump administration ordered the removal of the LGBTQ youth option on the national suicide hotline called \u201cPress 3.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAgitated\u201d was the first word Samad used to define his reaction to the Trump administration\u2019s decision, as he knows what it is like to rely on the resource.\n<\/p>\n<p>Jasper Liem, the executive director of The Attic Youth Center, said that the Trump administration\u2019s decision feels \u201cmalicious\u201d and sends a message that it wants to \u201cerase our community.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the message that\u2019s being said is that we\u2019re not here to be accepted,\u201d Liem said. \u201cThat there are powerful forces in play, in our homeland, that don\u2019t care that this is all harmful to who we are.\u201d\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":71112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,8724,1448,2830,1311,49741,49738,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-71111","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-lgbtqia","10":"tag-pa","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-philadelphia","13":"tag-suicide-hotline","14":"tag-trump-impact","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114871094842252536","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}