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We need a 4th emergency service for people in crisis to just evac them from bad situations, almost like the witness protection. (self.showerthoughts)
submitted 1 year ago by FizzlePopBerryTwist to c/showerthoughts
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I don't want to get too political in shower thoughts, but this would solve a lot of the hot button issues if more people just had safer and supportive environments to escape to and volunteers / paid professionals to help them on the other end.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Biggest problem is that you'd need the services everywhere for a 3-digit number to make sense.

Now if there was a 3-digit number that'd connect you to all the misc government services in your area, that'd be another thing.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

In some cities 211 goes pretty far, but I don't know how responsive they are.