Yahoo Health published a 2026 roundup of advocacy organizations on October 14. Becky Upham wrote it. Chelsea Vinas, MS, LMFT, is the medical reviewer. The piece still starts where these lists always start: The Trevor Project. Counselors 365 days, 24/7. Call 866-488-7386. Chat on the site. Text START to 678678. TrevorSpace for ages 13 to 24. Then GLAAD, HRC, It Gets Better, NCLR, SAGE. If you are in crisis, Trevor or 988.
That is a national directory. It is not the counseling center’s waitlist.
The Pride LA covered Santa Monica College’s Start Up, an early-semester resource fair in the main quad. Health Services, Basic Needs, and the Center for Health and Wellness showed up. Clubs, booths, games, music. The point of the event, in that write-up, is that students forget the resources they heard in week one. A fair is a reminder. It is not a first appointment.
We already filed 988 Press 3 against Trevor as the operator and Mental Health Day as an award. This week the list is back. The hours did not come with it.
Trevor’s numbers are national
Yahoo’s Trevor paragraph is operational, which is why it is useful. The phone number is 866-488-7386. Text is START to 678678. Chat is on Trevor’s site. The counselors are trained for LGBTQ+ young people dealing with identity, coming out, depression, suicidal ideation. TrevorSpace is a separate product: an online community for 13 to 24.
National 24/7 is the feature. Campus counseling is not 24/7 in most shops. If your center closes at 5 and the next intake is three weeks out, Trevor is the overnight line. It is not a replacement for a clinician who can write a campus accommodation letter.
Do not paste Trevor into a group chat as if it were the counseling URL. Do not tell a roommate to “just call Trevor” when they asked for the student health building. Give both. The building has hours. Trevor does not.
Yahoo’s crisis footer repeats Trevor or 988. That is the same fork we already covered. 988 is the national suicide and crisis line. Trevor is LGBTQ-specific. If your state has a Press 3 path, that is a third door. Save the one you will actually use at 1 a.m.
TrevorSpace is not counseling. It is a community space with an age band. If you are 25, you are outside it. If you need a therapist, you are in the wrong product.
988 is still 988
Yahoo’s roundup is not a 988 explainer. It just keeps the number in the crisis line. That is the correct placement. 988 is the three-digit line. Trevor is ten digits plus a text short code. Campus after-hours is whatever your school printed on the back of the ID.
If you only store one number, store 988. If you want an LGBTQ-specific counselor on the first pickup, store Trevor too. If your campus has a 24-hour nurse or protocol line, that is the one that can talk to your student health record. National lines cannot.
We already ran suicide prevention month against an intake. A roundup in October is the same genre as a month in September. The appointment is still the scarce object.
Do not wait for a listicle to tell you 988 exists. It has existed. Yahoo putting it under SAGE and GLAAD does not make it a new service.
If you are writing a resident advisor door sheet this week, put 988, Trevor, and the campus after-hours number in that order. Leave GLAAD off the door sheet. GLAAD does not answer at 2 a.m.
SMC Start Up is a quad, not a chart note
Pride LA’s SMC piece is local and specific. Start Up exists because students lose the map after orientation. The fair puts Health Services, Basic Needs, and the Center for Health and Wellness back in the quad with clubs and music. Community health groups ran booths.
That is a distribution method. You walk through, you take a card, you might get a sticker. You do not leave with a scheduled intake unless someone at the table can actually book one. Ask that question at the table. “Can I make an appointment from here” is the only question that converts a fair into care.
Basic Needs sitting next to Health Services is the honest layout. Food, housing, and counseling share a week for a lot of students. A booth for both is better than a PDF. It is still a booth.
If your campus is not SMC, steal the structure, not the branding. Find the next resource fair date. Walk it with a phone note that has three fields: hours, phone, how to book. If the table cannot fill “how to book,” the card is a flyer.
Games and music are how you get people into the quad. They are not clinical. Do not write “I went to Start Up” in a care plan as if it were a session.
GLAAD, HRC, NCLR, SAGE are not your intake
Yahoo’s list is doing advocacy taxonomy. GLAAD is 40 years old in that piece, focused on media accountability and cultural change. HRC’s tools, as described there, help people find inclusive workplaces, healthcare facilities, local events, volunteer paths, and ways to contact state representatives. It Gets Better is education, storytelling, and digital mental health resources aimed at coming out. NCLR is legal: asylum and immigration, custody, divorce, transgender rights, plus litigation on healthcare, education, work, and sports. SAGE is elders: HIV and aging, housing, long-term care, sexual wellness, “we refuse to be invisible.”
Those are real organizations. They are the wrong object when the problem is “I cannot get a Tuesday slot.”
HRC’s healthcare-facility finder is the closest to a campus problem, and it still will not book Student Health. NCLR is the closest if the problem is a legal one. SAGE is the wrong age band for a residence hall, unless you are calling for a parent.
It Gets Better’s digital mental health resources are not your campus clinician. Storytelling campaigns are not CBT. If a first-year is looking for a video that says it gets better, that org is in the right zip code. If they need a letter for housing, they need a campus office.
Keep the list for the day you need a lawyer, a news complaint, or an elder resource. Do not keep it as a substitute for the counseling URL.
Vinas’s reviewer bio on that page is a decade of work with anxiety, depression, trauma, couples, families. That is a credential on a roundup. It is not a therapist you can see. Yahoo is not assigning you a clinician.
What to save on a phone this week
Three numbers, one booking path, one building.
Numbers: 988. Trevor at 866-488-7386 or START to 678678. Your campus after-hours line from the ID or the health site.
Booking path: the actual URL or phone that creates an intake. Not the Pride Center Instagram. Not a fair. If the center uses a portal, log in once now while you are not in crisis and see whether it accepts new appointments. If it says waitlist, join it before midterms.
Building: the door you would walk to. Pride Center and counseling are often different doors. Yahoo’s list will not tell you which hallway. Your campus map will.
If you are an RA or a club officer, reprint the door sheet. Yahoo’s October 14 piece is a reminder that the national list did not change much. Trevor is still Trevor. 988 is still 988. The scarce thing is still a slot on campus.
If you only have energy for one action after reading a roundup, do not donate to the first logo. Open the counseling portal. If it is closed, save Trevor. If you are at a fair this week, ask the Health Services table to book you while you are standing there. That is the conversion the quad is for.
Continuing students are in the Pride LA lede on purpose. Start Up is not only for people who just got a student ID. The people who forget Health Services in October are often the ones who used it in September and then lost the portal password. If you are a club officer, drag those people through the quad, not just the first-years.
HRC, in Yahoo’s telling, also points at local events, volunteering, and contacting state representatives. That is civic work. It is not a same-day appointment. If a student wants to show up somewhere this week, a local event is a real door. Put it on a calendar. Do not file it under “I handled my mental health.”
NCLR’s docket as listed there includes healthcare and education discrimination, workplace harassment, and LGBTQ+ bias in sports. Those are lawyer problems. If a teammate just got dropped from housing, campus legal services or NCLR is in range. If they cannot sleep, you are back at Trevor and the counseling portal. Keep the legal number, but do not dial it for a panic attack.
SAGE’s motto in the piece is “we refuse to be invisible.” The work is HIV and aging, housing, long-term care. If a student is calling for a grandparent, that is the right org. If they are 19, it is a bookmark for later, not a hotline.
Yahoo’s reviewer line does not assign you Vinas. A roundup with an LMFT on the byline is still a roundup. The clinical object is a person who can bill or chart. National 24/7 lines can talk. They cannot put a note in your campus record that unlocks a withdrawal or a housing move.
Print the door sheet with today’s date. Lists go stale in the same way fairs do. Trevor’s numbers have been stable; campus hours have not. Recheck the counseling URL when the term changes. Recheck 988 when someone asks you what to save. Recheck the Pride Center hours if you are sending a first-year across campus at 4:45.
A best-of list can be accurate and still be the wrong document. Yahoo named the national doors. SMC put local doors in a quad. Your waitlist is a third document. Keep all three. Use the one that matches the hour you are in.
