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What is a Warmline?
Our Statewide Young Adult Warmline is a phone-based peer support line. Similar to hotlines, staff can connect callers to community resources, hold space, and inspire their peers to live a life of self-defined purpose through sharing their own lived experience. You can reach us at 1-855-6-hopenow or 1-855-646-7366 ☺
Our Operators are available from 12 pm to 9 pm, 7 days a week. We look forward to hearing from you!
🌟 Join Rise Be 2026 Leadership Summit 🌟
Join us on January 30, 2026, from 10 AM – 3 PM at The Chrysalis Center (255 Homestead Ave, Hartford, CT) for a day of connection, growth, and inspiration!
💬 Open to all young adults in Connecticut ages 18–29
🥗 Lunch will be provided
💻 Register by January 16, 2026: https://form.jotform.com/252954421840154
Let’s Rise Together and lead the way into 2026!
Latest from our Blog
Warmline Operator Job Opening
Join Rise Be is currently hiring a part-time Young Adult Warmline Operator. Are you an emerging adult with lived experience with mental health, addiction, or trauma? The Statewide Young Adult Warmline is a job readiness training program that lasts up to two years from the date of hire. This is an in-person position in Rocky…
Navigating Apartment Searching
I grew up living on the west side of Bridgeport, and I’ve lived in this city for my whole life. I’m 26 years old now, and I find myself wanting to travel to different places and explore new options for settling down. Something has always kept me in Bridgeport, though. Most of my family and…
Our New Normal. A Pandemic Story of Grief, Survival and Growth
What is normal? Is it a state of things that we have accepted and just continued our lives with? After the COVID pandemic, others and I have adapted what is now our new ‘normal’. Living through a world-wide pandemic has brought about forced change to people. A change to really look within themselves and to…
“The paradox of our inevitable suffering is our inevitable recovery”
– Johnathan McKenzie
