What is Lifeline (crisis support service)?
{{Infobox non-profit | name = Lifeline | image = | type = | founded_date = {{Start date|1963|03|16|df=yes}} | tax_id = | registration_id = | founder = Reverend Dr Sir Alan Walker | location = National Office: [[Canberra]], [[Australian Capital Territory]] | coordinates = | origins = | key_people = CEO: Colin Seery<br>Chairperson: Jacinta Munro | area_served = [[Australia]] | product = Telephone and Online Crisis Support | mission = | focus = | method = | revenue = | endowment = | num_volunteers = Over 11,000 | num_employees = | num_members = | subsid = | owner = | non-profit_slogan = | former name = | homepage = {{URL|http://www.lifeline.org.au/}} | dissolved = | footnotes = }} '''Lifeline''' is a [[non-profit]] [[organisation]] that provides free, 24-hour [[telephone]] support to people in need. Lifeline does not make any profit.<br /> A Lifeline Assistance called Volunteer Crisis Supporters provides suicide prevention services<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/Lookup/3303.0Main+Features12010?OpenDocument|title=Main Features - Contents|first=c=AU; o=Commonwealth of Australia; ou=Australian Bureau of|last=Statistics|date=20 March 2012|website=www.abs.gov.au}}</ref> (trying to persuade people not to [[Suicide|kill themselves]]) and [[mental health]] support (helping with [[Depression (mental illness)|depression]] and other issues). They help people not only by telephone but face-to-face and online too. Most people that work at the telephone centres for Lifeline work for free. They are called [[volunteer]]s. They are very well trained to help people with any problems. More than 400,000 calls are served by the Lifeline Assistance every year.<ref>{{cite web|title=Lifeline Annual Report 09/10|url=http://www.lifeline.org.au/ArticleDocuments/122/Life