Community Alternatives to Cops and 911

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UnityPoint Mobile Crisis Response Team 

(sends mental health counselors rather than police if there is no imminent threat): 844- 258-8858
*Note that this service can only be dispatched by phone in Franklin, Hamilton, Hardin, Boone, Story, Marshall, Jasper, Poweshiek, Warren, Madison, or Greene counties. If you live in Des Moines or elsewhere in Polk County, Mobile Crisis Response Teams can only be dispatched by police officers. If you can, get anyone suffering a serious mental health crisis to Broadlawns Hospital at 1801 Hickman Ave. or Lutheran Hospital at 700 E University Ave

IMAlive 

(suicide instant message chatline that will NOT call the police): https://www.imalive.org/ 

FOR TRANS PERSONS ONLY: 

(suicide help hotline for and by TRANS PEOPLE ONLY that will NOT call the police): 877-565- 8860 

Iowa Harm Reduction Coalition 

(Naxalone, Clean Needles and Injection Supplies, general inquiries about drug harm reduction): 515-957-1252 or 515-207-5202
and https://www.iowaharmreductioncoalition.org/ 

Iowa ICE Activity Hotline 

(report Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity to this hotline and get connected to local resources for dealing with ICE): 515-996-0003 

Iowa CCI's Communities of Color Project (project of a local activist nonprofit org which collects stories of police misconduct): 515-255-0800 

Children and Families of Iowa 

Domestic Violence Crisis Intervention Services (will only call police if caller asks them to) Crisis Line: 515-243-6147 

Iowa Victim Resource Call Center 

24 hour hotline (will only call police if caller asks them to): 1-800-770-1650 

LUNA abuse and crisis intervention services Hotline: 866-256-7668 

Iowa CURE 

(support for those the incarcerated and their loved ones on the outside): 

Carla at 641-301-1329 

Trinity Las Americas Prison Van Ministry: 

Provides free van rides to visit loved ones in Anamosa, Mt. Pleasant, and Fort Madison Iowa prisons once a month: Lindsey Mabe, Prison Van Ministry Coordinator, 515- 288-4056 

Central IA DSA Prison Abolition Working Group 

(education, support and organizing with the incarcerated and their loved ones on the outside): 515-421-8060 or prisonabolitiondsm@gmail.com