Get crisis help.
Parelate provides parenting guidance, not medical, mental-health, or emergency care. If your athlete may be in danger or experiencing a crisis, get real-world help now.
988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline
CALL OR TEXT 988Free, confidential, 24/7. You can call it for your athlete, or for yourself.
CALL 911 IF SOMEONE IS IN IMMEDIATE DANGERDifferent concerns need different people. Find the one closest to what you are seeing.
Your athlete may be hurt right now, cannot be kept safe, is unresponsive, or something is happening that cannot wait.
Get real-world emergency help now. Do not wait for guidance, and do not wait for it to get worse.
Emergency services, or your nearest emergency room. Use this when someone could be hurt right now.
Free, confidential, 24/7, for suicide, self-harm and emotional crisis. Available to you, not only your athlete.
Your athlete has talked about dying, wanting to not be here, hurting themselves, or you have seen signs of self-harm.
Take it seriously out loud, stay with them, remove access to means, and get a person trained in this involved today.
Free, confidential, 24/7, for suicide, self-harm and emotional crisis. Available to you, not only your athlete.
Text-based crisis support, 24/7, if talking out loud is not possible right now.
Emergency services, or your nearest emergency room. Use this when someone could be hurt right now.
The fastest door into real evaluation and referral. Say plainly what you have seen and ask to be seen soon.
Panic, hopelessness, not getting out of bed, a spiral you cannot reach, or a change in them that frightens you.
This needs a professional who can assess them, not a better conversation on the ride home.
Free, confidential, 24/7, for suicide, self-harm and emotional crisis. Available to you, not only your athlete.
Text-based crisis support, 24/7, if talking out loud is not possible right now.
The fastest door into real evaluation and referral. Say plainly what you have seen and ask to be seen soon.
Your pediatrician, your school counselor, your athletic director, or a licensed therapist. People who can see your athlete in person.
Restricting, purging, cutting weight, compulsive exercise, or eating behavior that has stopped looking like fueling.
Eating concerns in athletes get medical fast. This needs an evaluation, not a food conversation.
Weekday helpline staffed by licensed clinicians, with referrals to eating-disorder treatment.
The fastest door into real evaluation and referral. Say plainly what you have seen and ask to be seen soon.
Your pediatrician, your school counselor, your athletic director, or a licensed therapist. People who can see your athlete in person.
Something an adult, a coach, an older athlete, or someone online may have done to your athlete.
You do not have to be certain, and you should not investigate it yourself. Report it to people whose job this is.
24/7 professional crisis counselors for suspected abuse, and guidance on reporting where you live.
For abuse or misconduct by a coach, official or adult inside organized sport.
Emergency services, or your nearest emergency room. Use this when someone could be hurt right now.
Your child has described sexual contact that was forced, pressured or unwanted, sexual messages or images, or an adult or older athlete behaving sexually toward them.
Take the disclosure seriously and get qualified help involved. Parelate does not decide what happened, and this is not something to sort out inside the team.
Free and confidential, 24/7. Trained staff connect you with your local sexual-assault service provider, who can walk you through medical care, options and reporting where you live.
24/7 professional crisis counselors for suspected abuse, and guidance on reporting where you live.
For abuse or misconduct by a coach, official or adult inside organized sport.
Emergency services, or your nearest emergency room. Use this when someone could be hurt right now.
Hazing, threats, violence, substances, or anything else that has moved past sport and into your athlete's safety.
Trust what you are seeing. Bring in the adults who have authority over the situation and, where it applies, law enforcement.
24/7 professional crisis counselors for suspected abuse, and guidance on reporting where you live.
For abuse or misconduct by a coach, official or adult inside organized sport.
Your pediatrician, your school counselor, your athletic director, or a licensed therapist. People who can see your athlete in person.
Emergency services, or your nearest emergency room. Use this when someone could be hurt right now.
These resources are for the United States. If you are somewhere else, contact your local emergency number and your athlete’s doctor. Parelate does not provide medical, mental-health, or emergency services, and cannot contact anyone on your behalf.