The Trevor Project, the leading suicide prevention and crisis intervention organization for LGBTQ+ young people, shared that its classic crisis services (lifeline, chat, text) began to experience significant increases in volume towards the end of election night.
Update from The Trevor Project: Thank you for looking into The Trevor Project’s increased volume of crisis contacts, which was data our team pulled November 6 early morning. As of November 7 evening, 2024, the organization’s updated volume data is as follows:
-After analyzing the full day of post-election conversations across our classic crisis services, The Trevor Project saw an overall volume increase of nearly 700% on Nov 6, compared to the weeks prior.
-In addition, after analyzing the full day of post-election conversations across our classic crisis services, election-related content in convos have increased by nearly 5,200% compared to averages leading up to election day. (author introduction)