Need SUpport?
IMMEDIATE SUPPORT
If you're ever worried that someone's life is in immediate danger, call 911 or go directly to emergency services.
Talk Suicide Canada
Call: TOLL Free 1-833-456-4566 (experiencing high volumes),
Urgent support from a trained counsellor
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9-8-8 Suicide Crisis Helpline
Call or text: 9-8-8
A safe space to talk, 24 hours a day, every day of the year.
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Family and Relationship Services
Ending Violence Association of Canada
Family Violence Helpline
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Sheltersafe.ca
National list of transition houses and shelters
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National Residential School Crisis Line
Call: 1-866-925-4419
Provides mental health and emotional supports to eligible former Indian Residential School students and their families.
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National Aboriginal Circle Against Family Violence
Call: (450) 638-2968
Advocating for Shelters and transition house workers who provide the frontline services to Indigenous women and children, survivors of violence in Canada.
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Support for young people
Kids Help Phone
Call: 1-800-668-6868
Serves youth - 20 years, has resources for parents too. Livechat available
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NEED2 Prevention Education Support
Serves youth under 30, online and SMS Text chat, emotional/crisis support online 6:00PM-Midnight PST
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bethere.org
Resources to educate youth to support someone with mental health issues:
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Jack.org
Jack.org is Canada's only charity training and empowering young leaders to revolutionize mental health in every province and territory
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Foundry (British Columbia – Specific)
Resources, services and supports – online and through integrated service centres in communities across BC for young people 12-24
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Access Open Minds
Easy, quick and welcoming place for youth aged 11 to 25 (and their families/carers) to get the help they need
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Social Services/Employment Services
Grief or Bereavement services
Crisis Services Canada
TOLL Free: TOLL Free 1-833-456-4566 (experiencing high volumes)
(416) 915-4566 charges apply but may get through quicker
Grief support for people who have lost someone to suicide
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Drugs, Alcohol and other addiction services
The Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction
Call: 1-833-235-4048
NGO that provides national leadership on substance use and to advance solutions to address alcohol and other drug related harms
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Ontario specific: CAMH Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Call: 416-535-8501
Information, education and care for people recovering from mental illness and substance use
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Inuit, First Nations Inquiries
Online chat service/Helpline
Call: 1-855-242-3310
Immediate mental health counselling and crisis intervention to all Indigenous peoples across Canada (available in English and Cree; Objibway; Inuktitut)
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French Enquiries
Quebec Association for Suicide Prevention
Call: 1-866-277-3553
Support for if you know someone in distress (not for someone in distress themselves)
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Transgender support
Trans Lifeline
Call: 1-877-330-6366
Trans-led organization that connects trans people to the community, support, and resources they need to survive and thrive.
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COVID-19 Information
Government of Canada
Updates on national news, number of cases, monitoring, prevention, symptoms and treatment.
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