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Crisis Text Line is a United States not-for-profit organization providing free crisis intervention via SMS message. The organization's services are available 24/7 and throughout the US. Users reach the text line by sending a message to the shortcode 741-741. As of October 28, 2015, Crisis Text Line has processed 9,623,023 text messages. ==History== Crisis Text Line was conceptualized as an extension of Do Something's mobile interactions with its members. Do Something CEO Nancy Lublin states that as members increasingly sent deeply personal text messages, she saw a need for a separate channel for these messages in order to better assist the young people sending them. In public appearances, Lublin specifically cites a series of texts reading "He won't stop raping me... It's my dad." as an impetus for creating Crisis Text Line. The service was given a quiet launch in August 2013 through a text message to Do Something members in Chicago and El Paso, and was soon being used by texters in every United States area code.〔 Today, 350 people text the service daily, most of whom discovered the service through word-of-mouth. In July 2015, it was announced that Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile would be waiving fees for use of the service, and that texts to Crisis Text Line would not appear on billing records. Publicity for the move, including a high-profile blog post by Richard Branson, prompted AT&T to follow suit. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Crisis Text Line」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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