National Domestic Violence Hotline
24/7 confidential support for anyone experiencing domestic abuse, including safety planning.
Advocates help with immediate safety, longer-term planning, and finding local shelters and legal support. The service can be reached by phone, text or chat.
If you are using a device someone else can see, the chat and text routes are quieter than a call — and their site has instructions for covering your tracks.
National Domestic Violence Hotline
Phone, text and chat support for people experiencing abuse.
- United States
- People experiencing domestic abuse
- 1-800-799-7233
Call the Hotline
Open 24 hours, every day
- Free to call
- Freephone number
- You do not have to give your name
- Interpreters available
Checked 21 October 2026 against their own page
- START to 88788
Text START to 88788
Quieter than a call if someone else may hear you.
Open 24 hours, every day
- Free to call
- You do not have to give your name
Checked 21 October 2026 against their own page
People contact them about: someone is hurting me, thinking about suicide, nothing feels worth it, things are bad at home.
Other organisations
- Crisis Text LineFree, 24/7 crisis support by text message with a trained volunteer counselor.
- The Trevor ProjectCrisis support for LGBTQ+ young people under 25, by phone, text or chat, at any hour.
- Trans LifelineA peer support line run by and for trans people — and one of the very few that has committed publicly to never calling emergency services without your consent.
- 988 Suicide & Crisis LifelineThe United States' national crisis line. Call or text 988 from anywhere in the country, at any hour, free.
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We are not affiliated with National Domestic Violence Hotline and we do not speak for them. This page describes their service as they publish it; their own site is always the authority.