Suicide Hotlines and Crisis Lines in Romania

A helpline is a place to talk to someone when you are struggling, before or instead of a crisis. The lines on this page are answered by psychologists, social workers or trained volunteers, depending on the service. If you are not in Romania, the worldwide list is organised by country.

What you share is kept private in almost all cases; if a counsellor believes a life is in immediate danger, they may arrange urgent help. What each service costs is set out beside it below, because in Romania some of these numbers are free and others are ordinary numbers that may be charged.

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CRISIS LINES, SUICIDE HOTLINES, AND HELPLINES IN ROMANIA

Each number below was checked in August 2026 at the operating organisation's own website, or at the page of the national regulator or child-protection authority that records the service.

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Emergency numbers, and what each one is for

depreHUB, round-the-clock helplines

116 123, the suicide-attempt prevention line

TelVerde Antisuicid, 0800 801 200

Telefonul Copilului 116 111, for children and adolescents

Serviciul Urgențe Sociale, for readers in Bucharest

Hallgatlak, Hungarian-language support in Transylvania

While you are waiting to be answered

If you are worried about someone else

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Emergency numbers, and what each one is for

Romania does not run separate public numbers for the ambulance, the police and the fire brigade. One number covers them all.

All emergencies: 112

The communications regulator ANCOM describes 112 as the single European emergency number for alerting the police, the ambulance service, SMURD, the fire brigade and the gendarmerie. SMURD is Romania's mobile emergency and resuscitation service. The regulator states that calling 112 "is free and can be made from any fixed or mobile telephone", and that in an emergency it can be reached even when your phone has no signal on its own network.

Abuse against a child: 119

The child-protection authority ANPDCA describes 119 as the single national number for reporting abuse, neglect, exploitation and any other form of violence against a child. Calls are answered by the 47 county child-protection directorates through specialised operators, not by one central call centre. The authority states that calls to 119 are free for callers. Its hours are not published, so do not assume the line answers at every hour.

depreHUB, round-the-clock helplines

depreHUB is a network of helplines run by the Happy Minds association. In the organisation's own words, all the lines in the network are staffed by psychologists, psychotherapists and volunteers trained in emotional crisis intervention. The association describes its work as providing emergency services and psychosocial support at national level, 24/7. The helpline began in the autumn of 2019 and, by the organisation's own count, has taken more than 18,000 calls.

The main line is described by depreHUB as offering "free emotional support, 24/7, for anyone going through anxiety, depression, stress or personal difficulties". On cost, the organisation's own wording is "Convorbirile sunt gratuite", the calls are free, and each line is labelled GRATUIT.

Tel: 0374 456 420, the main depreHUB line. Open 24/7.

Tel: 0374 461 461, depreHUB Teens, for adolescents and young people. Open 24/7.

Tel: 0374 456 444, Helpline ANtiDROG, for people living with addiction and their families. Open 24/7.

Tel: 0374 451 362, M.A.M.A, the line for mothers. Open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week. Which twelve hours is not published.

Tel: 0374 078 078, SchoolHUB, for pupils, parents and teachers. Open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week. Which twelve hours is not published.

Cost: free, in the organisation's own words.

116 123, the suicide-attempt prevention line

The short code 116 123 is allocated in Romania for telephone lines offering emotional support. The regulator ANCOM records the service holder as the Direcția Generală de Asistență Socială a Municipiului București, Bucharest's social-assistance directorate.

The directorate carries the line on its own site as "116123 - Prevenirea tentativelor de suicid", the prevention of suicide attempts, with the words "Linie telefonică 24/7", a 24/7 telephone line. Its projects page lists the line as a named project with the directorate as coordinator.

Read this before you rely on it from outside the capital: the operator is a Bucharest municipal body, and nothing it publishes says whether the line answers callers from other parts of the country.

Tel: 116 123

Hours: 24/7, in the operator's own words.

Cost: not published on the operator's pages.

TelVerde Antisuicid, 0800 801 200

TelVerde Antisuicid is run by the Alianța Română de Prevenție a Suicidului, the Romanian Alliance for Suicide Prevention. It is the country's line dedicated to people in suicidal crisis and to those close to them. In the organisation's own words, it is "a resource offered to the community" that "functions exclusively on a volunteer basis", and it describes the number as "a telephone line callable free of charge from the territory of Romania".

On who answers, the organisation says "the anonymous volunteers who take the calls have specific training in dialogue with people in psychological crisis".

Check the hours before you dial. The line answers on three nights of the week only. Outside those hours you can email the alliance, which describes email as open at any time with a reply within a maximum of two working days, or use the other lines on this page.

Tel: 0800 801 200

Email: sos@antisuicid.ro

Hours: Friday, Saturday and Sunday, 19:00 to 07:00.

Cost: callable free of charge, in the organisation's own words.

Telefonul Copilului 116 111, for children and adolescents

Asociația Telefonul Copilului describes itself as "the only non-governmental, non-profit organisation in Romania that puts a national telephone assistance line, 116 111, at the disposal of children and adolescents". Calls are answered by the association's social workers and psychologists. This is a line for children and adolescents, not a general adult crisis number, and it keeps weekday hours.

On cost, the association's own wording is that the number is callable from the Telekom, Vodafone and Orange fixed and mobile networks, without a prefix, free. Its about page adds that "the call is offered free by Orange Romania" from those networks.

Tel: 116 111

Email: vorbestecunoi@telefonulcopilului.ro

Hours: Monday to Friday, 10:00 to 20:00.

Cost: free from the Telekom, Vodafone and Orange networks, in the association's own words.

Serviciul Urgențe Sociale, for readers in Bucharest

The Serviciul Urgențe Sociale is Bucharest's social emergency service, run by the city's social-assistance directorate. It is a social-emergency dispatch rather than a counselling line: its page describes temporary shelter, food, clothing and referral for adults in crisis, including people who are homeless, people living with addiction, people with mental health conditions and isolated members of the community.

It serves Bucharest, not the whole country. Its page describes the service as non-stop, "24/24 ore la număr unic 021/9524".

Tel: 021/9524

Hours: non-stop, in the service's own words.

Cost: not published.

Hallgatlak, Hungarian-language support in Transylvania

The Erdélyi Lelkisegély Szolgálat, known as Hallgatlak, is a Hungarian-language emotional support and crisis line for Transylvania, operated by the Áradat egyesület. In its own words, "the Telephone Emotional Support Service has been operating for more than 20 years" and "trained staff take the calls". The site also describes those who answer as the service's volunteer professionals.

Calls are taken in Hungarian. The line is regional, for Transylvania, and it keeps weekday hours. Email is explicitly open outside the phone hours: in the service's words, "you can ask for help this way at any time, not only between 8 and 24".

Tel: +40 754 800 808

Email: hallgatlak.lelkisegely@gmail.com

Hours: every weekday, 08:00 to 24:00.

Cost: not published. This is an ordinary Romanian mobile number, so a call may be charged.

While you are waiting to be answered

Some of these lines keep set hours, and a line that is open can still be busy. If you are waiting, try to stay with someone you trust, or ask someone to sit with you until the call connects.

If you have anything near you that you could use to harm yourself, put it somewhere harder to reach, or ask someone else to hold it for you. Distance and time both help.

If waiting is not possible, dial 112 or go to a hospital emergency department. You do not need an appointment and you do not need to explain yourself well.

If you are worried about someone else

Ask them directly. Asking someone whether they are thinking of suicide does not put the idea there, and it often comes as a relief to be asked plainly.

Listen more than you advise. You do not need the right words, and you are not expected to fix anything.

If they are willing, offer to sit with them while they call one of the numbers above, or to make the call together. If they are in immediate danger, treat it as you would any medical emergency.

If you are worried about a child, 119 is the national number for reporting abuse, neglect or violence against a child, and it is free to call.

Supporting someone through this is heavy, and it is reasonable to want support of your own. The same lines are open to you.

For services in other countries, see the list of helplines and suicide hotlines worldwide.

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