Helplines


Kid’s Help Phone
All of Canada

  • Available 24/7

  • Offers mental health support through phone calls, Facebook messenger, text, and live chat

  • For youth

  • Call 1-800-668-6868, text 686868

Gerstein Crisis Centre
City of Toronto

  • Available 24/7

  • Crisis services for mental health issues

  • For adults 16+

  • 416-929-5200

Durham Mental Health Services
Durham Region

  • Available 24/7

  • Offers information, referral, and crisis services

  • 905-666-0483

Reachout247
Greater London Area

  • Available 24/7

  • Bilingual (English and French)

  • Offers information, referral, and crisis services

  • Covers London, Middlesex, Oxford and Elgin counties

  • Call 519-433-2023 or 1-866-933-2023, text 519-433-2023

Distress Centres of Greater Toronto
Greater Toronto Area

  • Available 24/7

  • Offers crisis, emotional support, and suicide prevention and intervention

  • Offers services via hotline, online chat, and text

  • 416-408-4357

Distress Centre Halton
Halton Region

  • Available 24/7

  • Provides telephone and online support

  • Offers emotional support to people in distress or crisis

  • 905-849-4541 (Oakville), 905-681-1488 (Burlington), 905-877-1211 (Milton/Halton Hills)

Crisis Outreach and Support Team (Coast)
Hamilton

  • Available 24/7

  • Provides services for crises related to mental health and addictions

  • A partnership between mental health professionals from St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton and specially trained officers from Hamilton Police Service

  • 905-972-8118

Telephone Aid Line Kingston (TALK)
Kingston

  • Available from 6 PM to 2 AM

  • Offers confidential support for any mental health issues

  • 613-544-1771

Distress Centre Niagara
Niagara Region

  • Available 24/7

  • Offers support for safety and emotional wellness of those in need

  • 905-688-3711 (St. Catharines, Niagara Falls and area), 905-734-1212 (Port Colborne, Wainfleet and area), 905-382-0689 (Fort Erie and area), 905-563-6674 (Grimsby, West Lincoln)

Ottawa Distress Centre
Ottawa

  • Available 24/7

  • Bilingual (English and French)

  • Distress line offers emotional support and encouragement, crisis management and intervention, suicide risk assessment and prevention, community resource/referral information

  • Crisis line offers support for situational crisis, psychosis or suicidal behaviour, severe depression or anxiety, suicidal behaviour

  • 613-238-3311 (Distress Line), 613-722-6914 (Crisis Line)

Tel-Aide Outaouais
Ottawa-Gatineau

  • Available 24/7

  • French crisis line for Francophones living in Ottawa and Gatineau

  • 613-741-6433 in Ottawa, 819-775-3223 in Gatineau

Youth Services Bureau of Ottawa Crisis Line
Ottawa

  • Available 24/7

  • Serves individuals up to 18 years of age

  • Includes a mobile crisis team that operates from 4:30 p.m. to midnight on weekdays and from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. on weekends

  • 613-260-2360

Telecare Distress Centre of Peterborough
Peterborough

  • Available 24/7

  • Offers a confidential listening ear to anyone in need

  • 705-745-2273

Telecare Distress Line of Greater Simcoe
Simcoe County

  • Available 24/7

  • Distress line that offers emotional support and community referrals

  • 705-325-9534 or 705-726-7922

Canadian Mental Health Association – Thunder Bay
Thunder Bay

  • Available 24/7

  • For youth and adults who are experiencing a mental health crisis

  • 807-346-8282 (Thunder Bay), 1-866-888-8988 (Kenora Rainy River District)