California runs mental health through counties, which is why "call your county" is such useless advice: 58 counties, 58 websites, and the number is rarely where you would look. 57 of the 58 publish a line we could verify on their own site. One does not, and its page says so rather than guessing — a wrong crisis number is worse than no number.

Wherever you are: 988 answers 24/7 and routes you locally, and the ten-day appointment right applies in every county in the state.

County Line What the county calls it Checked
Alameda (800) 491-9099 ACCESS line, 24/7 16 August
Alpine (800) 318-8212 24/7 crisis line 17 August
Amador (888) 310-6555 24-hour crisis line 17 August
Butte (800) 334-6622 24/7 behavioral health crisis line 17 August
Calaveras (800) 499-3030 24/7 crisis line 17 August
Colusa (888) 793-6580 24-hour crisis line 17 August
Contra Costa (888) 678-7277 24/7 behavioral health ACCESS line 17 August
Del Norte (888) 446-4408 24/7 mental health and substance use access line 17 August
El Dorado (800) 929-1955 24/7 access and crisis line 17 August
Fresno (800) 654-3937 24/7 access line 16 August
Glenn not verified see the county page 17 August
Humboldt (888) 849-5728 24-hour behavioral health crisis line 17 August
Imperial (800) 817-5292 24/7 access and crisis line 17 August
Inyo (800) 841-5011 24/7 access line 17 August
Kern (800) 991-5272 24-hour crisis hotline and access line 17 August
Kings (800) 655-2553 24/7 access and crisis line 17 August
Lake (800) 900-2075 24-hour emergency crisis line 17 August
Lassen (888) 530-8688 24-hour behavioral health crisis line 17 August
Los Angeles (800) 854-7771 DMH help line, 24/7 16 August
Madera (559) 533-1000 24/7 mobile crisis line 17 August
Marin (888) 818-1115 24/7 ACCESS line 17 August
Mariposa (800) 549-6741 24-hour crisis line 17 August
Mendocino (855) 838-0404 24/7 crisis line 17 August
Merced (209) 381-6819 24/7 crisis line 17 August
Modoc (800) 699-4880 24/7 emergency line 17 August
Mono (800) 687-1101 after-hours access line 17 August
Monterey (888) 258-6029 24/7 ACCESS line 17 August
Napa (707) 253-4711 24-hour crisis hotline 17 August
Nevada (530) 265-5811 24-hour crisis line 17 August
Orange (855) 625-4657 OC Links, 24/7 16 August
Placer (888) 886-5401 24-hour crisis and intake line 17 August
Plumas (800) 757-7898 24/7 crisis and access line 17 August
Riverside (800) 706-7500 CARES line, 24/7 16 August
Sacramento (888) 881-4881 mental health access team 16 August
San Benito (831) 902-2911 24/7/365 mobile crisis line 17 August
San Bernardino (888) 743-1478 24/7 access line 16 August
San Diego (888) 724-7240 Access and Crisis Line, 24/7 16 August
San Francisco (888) 246-3333 24/7 behavioral health access line 17 August
San Joaquin (209) 468-8686 24/7/365 crisis line 17 August
San Luis Obispo (800) 838-1381 24/7 behavioral health access line 17 August
San Mateo (650) 579-0350 24/7 crisis line and mobile crisis team 17 August
Santa Barbara (888) 868-1649 24-hour crisis response and access line 17 August
Santa Clara (800) 704-0900 24/7 behavioral health call centre 16 August
Santa Cruz (800) 952-2335 24/7 behavioral health access line 17 August
Shasta (888) 385-5201 24-hour mental health access and crisis line 17 August
Sierra (888) 840-8418 24/7 crisis and access line 17 August
Siskiyou (800) 842-8979 24/7 crisis intervention and access line 17 August
Solano (707) 806-0866 mobile crisis hotline, 24/7/365 17 August
Sonoma (800) 870-8786 24/7 behavioral health access line 17 August
Stanislaus (888) 376-6246 access, crisis and support line, 24/7 17 August
Sutter (888) 923-3800 Sutter-Yuba psychiatric emergency services, 24/7 17 August
Tehama (800) 240-3208 24/7 access line 17 August
Trinity (888) 624-5820 24-hour behavioral health access line 17 August
Tulare (800) 320-1616 24-hour crisis and access line 17 August
Tuolumne (800) 630-1130 24-hour behavioral health crisis line 17 August
Ventura (866) 998-2243 24/7 crisis line 16 August
Yolo (888) 965-6647 24/7 mental health crisis and access line 17 August
Yuba (888) 923-3800 Sutter-Yuba psychiatric emergency services, 24/7 17 August

Free to republish with attribution — a county, a school district or a clinic can lift this table whole. Every row links to the official page it came from. If a number here is wrong, that is the most important correction you can send us, and it goes in the same day: the form reaches a person.