As Canadians, we are very fortunate to have so many resources at our fingertips. See below for links to dozens of fantastic organizations.

Canada-wide

988: Established in 2023, Dial 9-8-8 to access a Canada-wide suicide crisis line.

Crisis Services Canada: Established in 2002, Crisis Services Canada is a nonprofit national network of existing distress, crisis, and suicide prevention line services that assist populations across Canada.

Kids Help Phone: Canada’s only 24/7 call-in service, Kids Help Phone offers professional counselling, information and referrals, and volunteer-led, text-based support to young people in both English and French.  

eMentalHealth.ca: eMentalHealth.ca is a Canada-wide mental health support service database for crisis intervention, mental health education, and services including counselling and therapy, among other health services.  

The Lifeline App: The Lifeline App is an app that offers access and guidance for individuals in crisis. Online chat, text, and email crisis help is also available.

British Columbia

Crisis Line Association of BC (CLABC): CLABC has provided emotional support, crisis and suicide assessment and intervention, and resources to people in British Columbia for over 40 years.

Crisis Centre BC: Crisis Centre BC provides immediate access to barrier-free, non-judgmental, confidential support and follow-up to all populations across British Columbia through 24/7 phone lines and online services.

Options Community Services: Options Community Services is a nonprofit registered charity that provides social services. They offer crisis lines, counselling services, youth shelters and transition houses, and provide transportation for seniors and disabled people.

Telecare Crisis & Caring Line: Telecare Crisis & Caring Line is a Christian-based centre that provides phone support in moments of personal crisis or distress, as well as mental health education and workshops.  

Crisis Prevention, Intervention & Information Centre For Northern BC: The Crisis Prevention, Intervention & Information Centre For Northern BC is a centre that provides peer support for the people of northern British Columbia through phone and online chat services.

NEED2 Suicide Prevention, Education, and Support: NEED2 Suicide Prevention, Education, and Support offers community programs about suicide and mental health, and accessible emotional and crisis support via phone (through youthspace.ca).

Chimo Community Services: Chimo Community Services is a nonprofit organization offering counselling, outreach and advocacy, newcomer settlement services, homeless prevention programs, transition assistance, and crisis support.

Vancouver Island Crisis Society: Vancouver Island Crisis Society is a federally-funded crisis organization that offers workshops, crisis intervention and support, and suicide bereavement support.

Alberta

Capella Centre: Capella Centre offers secure and confidential services to women and children escaping domestic violence and other urgent situations. Capella Centre offers programming and a crisis support line.

Distress Centre: Distress Centre is a charitable organization that offers crisis counselling, support, referrals, and social and community support and programs. Distress Centre also offers teen peer support.

Connecteen: Connecteen is a youth support organization that offers crisis support and counselling via phone and text. Education and programming for families is also available.

Wood’s Homes: Wood’s Homes is a children’s mental health centre that provides treatment and support to children, youth, and families with mental health needs.

Some Other Solutions: Some Other Solutions offers mental health services and support through crisis line and intervention, counselling services, and information and resources. Child and youth programming is also available.  

Dr. Margaret Savage Crisis Centre: Dr. Margaret Savage Crisis Centre is a nonprofit organization that provides shelter and support to women and children in crisis, public education, mental health crisis intervention and support, and programming. Children and youth services are also available.

Wheatland Crisis Society: Wheatland Crisis Society is an outreach community and shelter that offers programs, education, crisis intervention, and support. A 24 hour crisis line is also available.

Saskatchewan

Hudson Bay Family & Support Centre: Hudson Bay Family & Support Centre is a nonprofit, community-based organization that provides ongoing crisis support, counselling referrals and resources, and community programs. A 24-hour crisis hotline is also available.

NEOSS Rapid Access Counselling: NEOSS Rapid Access Counselling is a community-based nonprofit organization that offers crisis counselling and intervention, programming and education, and community-based activities and events.

MCS Mobile Crisis Unit: MCS Mobile Crisis Unit offers mobile crisis assistance, a helpline, walk-in (COVID protocols in place), child abuse assistance, and an emergency community shelter. Education and other programming is available.  

Saskatoon Crisis Intervention Service: Saskatoon Crisis Intervention Service is a mobile crisis service that also offers intensive community support, homelessness education and intervention, job postings, and public education.

Southwest Crisis Services: Southwest Crisis Services is a safe women’s shelter that offers 24-hour crisis helpline assistance, counselling, and sexual assault services.  

West Central Crisis & Family Support Centre: West Central Crisis & Family Support Centre offers crisis and family support, a variety of community programs and mental health services, and public education. Youth services are also available.

Manitoba

Reasons to Live: Reasons to Live is a suicide prevention and support line that offers crisis intervention and help for individuals and family members. Offered through Klinic Community Health.

Manitoba Trauma Information and Education Centre: Manitoba Trauma Information and Education Centre is a trauma resource and recovery organization that offers education and programs.

Klinic Community Health: Klinic Community Health offers health care services, crisis support, in-person counselling (COVID protocols in place), wellness support, and education and training.  

Teen Talk: Teen Talk is a community health care service that provides education and workshops, mental and physical health support, and referral services.

Ontario

Crisis Line: Crisis Line is a bilingual crisis response service that offers phone support and an in-person local crisis team that responds within 24 hours.  

Reach Out Mental Health Addictions Crisis Services: Reach Out Mental Health Addictions Crisis Services is a phone, text, and web chat crisis support service that provides help in both English and French. Education and resources are also provided and an emergency crisis response team is available.

Distress Centre Durham: Distress Centre Durham is a community-based centre that provides crisis support, emotional support and management education, and community events and programming.

Telephone Aid Line Kingston: Telephone Aid Line Kingston is a crisis support phone line that provides crisis support and referral services. Mental health information and resources are also available.

KFL&A Public Health: KFL&A Public Health is a clinic that offers mental health support, education, and referrals.

Developmental Services of Leeds and Grenville: Developmental Services of Leeds and Grenville offers a variety of clinical and support services to persons with developmental/intellectual disabilities, including mental health services and education.

Distress Centre Halton: Distress Centre Halton is a community-based support centre that offers crisis intervention and assistance and mental health services. Help is also provided to seniors, caregivers, and individuals awaiting mental health services.  

Talk4Healing: Talk4Healing is a culturally-grounded and fully confidential helpline for Indigenous women across Ontario. Assistance is available in 14 languages.  

Distress Centre of Ottawa and Region: Distress Centre of Ottawa and Region is a crisis and mental health support line that offers assistance by phone or text.  

Telecare Distress Centre of Peterborough: Telecare Distress Centre of Peterborough is a local call centre that offers mental health crisis and emotional support services.  

Distress Centres of Greater Toronto: Distress Centres of Greater Toronto provides crisis assistance and intervention, hosts fundraisers, and provides public education. A survivor support program is also available.

Compass Community Services: Compass Community Services provides counselling, peer support, workplace wellness programming, and developmental services. Walk-in counselling services are also available.  

The Downtown Mission of Windsor: The Downtown Mission of Windsor is a Christian-based distress centre that provides emotional support, crisis intervention, suicide prevention, and community referrals. A crisis line is also available.

York Support Services Network: York Support Services Network is a community crisis response service available over the phone, text, or live chat. A mobile response team and short-term crisis beds are available.

Quebec

Association québécoise de prévention du suicide: Association québécoise de prévention du suicide is a suicide prevention organization that provides suicide crisis intervention, a crisis line, education, and events and programming to provide community education and awareness around suicide.

Centre de prévention suicide Arthabaska-Érable: Centre de prévention suicide Arthabaska-Érable is a nonprofit suicide prevention centre that aims to reduce suicide deaths, raise public awareness, and provide public education and programming. A crisis line is also available.

Bas-Saint-Laurent Suicide Prevention and Crisis Intervention Center: Bas-Saint-Laurent Suicide Prevention and Crisis Intervention Center is a suicide prevention, education, and awareness centre that provides a crisis hotline, crisis hosting, clinical support for professionals, and monitoring.

Centre prévention suicide le Faubourg: Centre prévention suicide le Faubourg is a suicide prevention and support organization that provides crisis assistance, education and training, and other programming.

Centre de prévention suicide: Centre de prévention suicide is a suicide prevention centre with a crisis line, clinical support for workers, training programs, transition support and programs, and suicide and bereavement follow-up.

New Brunswick

Chimo Helpline: Chimo Helpline is a crisis and emotional support phone line accessible at all times. Clinical and counselling referrals are provided and mental health education is available.

Horizon Health Network: Horizon Health Network provides a province-wide mobile crisis unit directory, and a variety of mental health services, including diagnostics, veterans health services, and addictions services.

Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia Mental Health Services: Nova Scotia Mental Health Services is run by the Nova Scotia Health Authority, and provides mental health support and programs across Nova Scotia for a variety of demographics including seniors and youth.  

Nova Scotia Mental Health and Addictions: Nova Scotia Mental Health and Addictions provides mental health and addictions services to professionals who provide support, programs, and services. A provincial mental health and addictions crisis line is also available.

Prince Edward Island

The Island Helpline: The Island Helpline is a bilingual crisis and emotional support line that provides crisis assistance and intervention, referrals, and general education.

Prince Edward Island Mental Health Services: Prince Edward Island Mental Health Services provides a directory of education, referrals, and support across the province.

Newfoundland & Labrador

Eastern Health Mental Health and Addictions: Eastern Health Mental Health and Addictions is a hospital-based mental health and addictions service that provides assistance over the phone, in person, and online. Psychiatric unit assessments are also available.

Yukon

Government of Yukon, Mental Health and Wellness Services: Government of Yukon, Mental Health and Wellness Services provides mental health services and individual counselling, outreach services, and community support. Psychiatric consultations are available.

Crisis Centre Chat: Crisis Centre Chat provides immediate access to barrier-free, non-judgmental, confidential support and follow-up to all populations through 24 hour phone lines and online services.

Northwest Territories

Northwest Territories Health and Social Services: Northwest Territories Health and Social Services is a public directory of mental health services and addictions recovery. Community counsellors are available, as well as a help line.  

Nunavut

Kamatsiaqtut Nunavut Helpline: Kamatsiaqtut Nunavut Helpline is a crisis and emotional support helpline that serves family members and loved ones, as well as individuals in distress.

Government of Nunavut, Department of Health: Government of Nunavut, Department of Health provides education and mental health assistance, along with a mental health clinic and services directory. Counselling and Indigenous services are available.  
 

Indigenous and First Nations

Talk4Healing: Talk4Healing is a culturally grounded and fully confidential helpline for Indigenous women across Ontario. Assistance is available in 14 languages.  

Network for Aboriginal Mental Health Research: Network for Aboriginal Mental Health Research is a database that is frequently updated with mental health resources for First Nations, Indigenous, Métis, and Inuit peoples across Canada.

Hope for Wellness Help Line: Hope for Wellness Help Line is a federally-run help line that offers immediate help, counselling, and crisis intervention to all Indigenous peoples across Canada.

Indian Residential School Survivors Society: Indian Residential School Survivors Society is a society for Indian residential school survivors across Canada that offers counselling, support, and a crisis line.

Healing in Colour: Healing in Colour is a therapist directory and resource that focuses on serving BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, people of colour) folks across Canada.

Wabano Centre: Wabano Centre is an Indigenous centre that merges traditional healing practices with contemporary therapeutic methods.

Canadian Mental Health Association: Canadian Mental Health Association offers mental health and wellness services for Indigenous children and youth. Traditional healing practices are employed.  

Native Counselling Services of Alberta (NCSA): Native Counselling Services of Alberta is a service that promotes resilience through programs and services that are grounded in reclamation of identity, interconnectedness, reconciliation, and traditional healing.

Government of Nunavut, Department of Health: Government of Nunavut, Department of Health offers education and assistance, and mental health clinic and services directory. Counselling services and Indigenous services are available.

Military/Veterans

Royal Canadian Legion: The Royal Canadian Legion offers mental health and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) help lines, a family information line, referrals, resources, and other information provided through the Royal Canadian Legion.  

Veterans Affairs Canada: Veterans Affairs Canada is a federally-run, public department for mental health and wellness of veterans and military personnel that provides referrals, counselling services, assessments, compensation, and medical costs for eligible individuals.

Wounded Warriors Canada: Wounded Warriors Canada is a national mental health service provider for veterans, first responders, and their families. Education and programs are also available.

Veterans Emergency Transition Services (VETS Canada): Veterans Emergency Transition Services is a grassroots organization that provides an emergency phone line, advocates for mental health and wellness and hosts events.

Canadian Forces Member Assistance Program (CFMAP): Canadian Forces Member Assistance Program is a federally-run department that offers confidential, voluntary, short-term counselling to assist with resolving life stressors. Eligibility required.

Mental health organizations and associations

Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA): The Canadian Mental Health Association is a national organization that provides mental health programs, support, and education. Local branches are also available.

Canadian Sport Psychology Association (CSPA): Canadian Sport Psychology Association is an organization dedicated to applied sport psychology, facilitating the development of mental and emotional skills, techniques, attitudes, and perspectives that lead to performance enhancement and personal development.

Mental Health Commission of Canada: The Mental Health Commission of Canada leads the development and dissemination of programs and tools to support mental health and wellness of Canadians.

Canadian Psychiatric Association: The Canadian Psychiatric Association is an association of psychiatrists across Canada that works to promote the highest quality of care and treatment for persons with mental illness through advocacy of research and education.  

Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association: Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association is a regulatory organization that oversees Canadian counsellors and psychotherapists by providing clinical supervisions, advocacy, education, and other clinical resources.

Canadian Psychological Association: Canadian Psychological Association is a national organization that supports Canadian psychologists through advocacy, education, collaboration, and research.