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What is a Warmline?

Our Statewide Young Adult Warmline is a phone-based peer support line. Similar to hotlines, staff can connect callers to community resources, hold space, offer hope, and inspire their peers to live a life of self-defined purpose through sharing their own lived experience. You can reach us at 1-855-6-467-3669 or 1-855-6-hopenow☺

Our Operators are available from 12pm – 9pm everyday of the week. We look forward to hearing from you!

Are you a young adult in Connecticut who has a passion for mental health and enjoys connecting with peers? 🤔

Then join us for this awesome free event we’re hosting soon! 🎉

Our 2022 Virtual Young Adult Summit will be filled with thought provoking workshops, activities, discussions and more relating to the “Waves of Reflection.”

If you’d like to learn more about the 2022 Virtual YA Summit please get connected with us by visiting our website, calling our Warmline at 1-855-6-hopenow or emailing us at connect@joinrisebe.org.

Please register before February 15th using the link below:

https://form.jotform.com/213484998844071

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Adulting, Chapter 2: Weekly Scheduling and Planning

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February2022
Statewide Young Adult Advisory Board MeetingThis is a hybrid offering! You can also join via Zoom by clicking this link: https://zoom.us/j/93383202925
11:00am – 1:00pm114 West Main St. New Britain, CT
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January2022
The Cozy Corner: A Weekly Virtual Peer Support Group on WednesdaysThe Cozy Corner‘s intention is to serve as a peaceful space of belonging where teens, young adults, and peers can creatively connect, have fun, and hold space with one another. You can join via Zoom at: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81384783766
7:00pm – 8:00pmZoom
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Weekly Young Adult Alternatives To Suicide
on FridaysThe Alternatives to Suicide approach is about openly exploring the meaning behind thoughts and feelings of suicide, as well as what might be worth living for. In “Alt2Su” groups we find strength in coming together to support one another in our times of greatest distress.
6:30pm – 8:00pm114 West Main St. New Britain, CT

“The paradox of our inevitable suffering is our inevitable recovery”

– Johnathan McKenzie