Long Island Crisis Center

The Middle Earth Hotline
(516) 679-1111

Middle Earth Hotline was Long Island Crisis Center’s oldest hotline. In fact, we were first known as Middle Earth Switchboard, borrowing from J.R.R. Tolkein’s name for a land safe for young people. Like all our hotlines, this service is free, anonymous and confidential and open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Crisis intervention and suicide prevention counseling are available; counselors also provide information and referrals.

Middle Earth Hotline’s Information and Referrals System contains more than 1,000 referrals that have been individually researched and personally visited by our referrals coordinator. This is a tremendous resource that connects Long Islanders in need with available human services.