Text-to-911 is a reliable and safe way to reach emergency services in New York City.
It is beneficial to people who are:
You should:
Restrictions
Text-to-911 is free and works through short message service (SMS) with cellular carriers but requires a text or data plan.
Text-to-911 is also only available in English and Spanish in the five boroughs.
How to Text
To use Text-to-911 as efficiently as possible you should:
Safe Horizon's Project Safe provides lock replacement services to crime victims in all five New York City boroughs.
Project Safe will change, replace or install top locks free of charge within 24-48 hours. The 'bottom' lock is the property and responsibility of the landlord and will not be serviced by Project Safe's locksmiths.
Damaged doors and doorframes must be repaired before scheduling an appointment for locksmith services.
The Kings County District Attorney’s Office established a hotline to help sex-crime victims in Brooklyn’s Orthodox Jewish communities report abuse. English, Yiddish and Hebrew languages can be accommodated.
The NYC Hope website provides information and resources for survivors of domestic violence and those seeking to help a victim of domestic violence.
Learn about help available for a victim of domestic violence.
The Department of Health and Mental Hygiene provides a health bulletin about violence between intimate partners. The bulletin includes information about:
The Health Bulletin is available in English, Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Haitian Creole, Hindi, Russian, or Spanish.
Online
Download the intimate partner violence health bulletin in:
By Phone
Order Change
If your order was already shipped, you can return unwanted copies at no cost to you by writing "Return to Sender" on the package and putting it in the mail. To order additional items, you must place another order.
To update address, email, and organizational information customers can email their requests.
Send a message to dohmhliterature@health.nyc.gov.
To update a current order, be sure to include tracking order number.
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The NYC Health Department provides program oversight and support to anti-violence programs in the City. The Cure Violence model is an evidence-based public health approach that seeks to stop the spread of violence by using the following methods and strategies associated with disease control:
Cure Violence in NYC is part of the City's Anti-Gun Violence Crisis Management System, which is an initiative to reduce gun violence in 17 city precincts.
If you are interested in learning more about the Cure Violence program in your neighborhood, call one of the sites in your borough:
Brooklyn
Brownsville In Violence Out
(718) 226-0433
Save Our Streets (S.O.S) Bed-Stuy
(718) 773-6886
Save Our Streets (S.O.S) Crown Heights
(718) 773-6886
Operation HOOD (Helping Our Own Develop)
(718) 449-5000 x2288
Gangstas Making Astronomical Community Changes (GMACC)
(718) 498-1000
Man Up! Alpha and Omega
(718) 498-2320
Bronx
Bronx Rises Against Gun (B.R.A.G.) Violence North and West
(718) 716-1150
Save Our Streets (S.O.S) Morrisania and South Bronx
(646) 448-9131
Release the Grip (BronxConnect Cure Violence)
(718) 402-6872
Manhattan
Speak Peace Forward (Street Corner Resources)
(212) 694-8759
Getting Out, Staying Out’s Stand Against Violence East Harlem (SAVE)
(212) 831-5020
Queens
696 Build Queensbridge
(718) 784-7447
Life Camp
(718) 848-3900
Rock Safe Streets
(646) 394-9551
Staten Island
True 2 Life
(718) 273-8411
