Crisis

If you are in crisis, please:

• contact your family doctor, your local distress centre (in Toronto, (416) 408-HELP (4357)) or your local mobile crisis unit (CAMH offers a list of mobile crisis response teams' contact information at https://www.camh.ca/en/health-info/crisis-resources),

• call or text 988 (a suicide crisis helpline available across Canada with an online chat also available at https://988.ca/), or

• call 911 or go to your nearest hospital. 

Noted below are a few additional support services and resource lists that you may find helpful:

• 9-8-8 Suicide Crisis Helpline is a national suicide prevention hotline available by phone or text at 988 or online chat at https://988.ca/

• Assaulted Women’s Helpline offers support to all women who have experienced abuse at (416) 863-0511 or 1 (866) 863-0511 or text #SAFE (#7233) (http://www.awhl.org/)

• Distress Centres offers a helpline at (416) 408-HELP (4357) (https://www.torontodistresscentre.com/)

• Good2Talk is a helpline that Ontario post-secondary students can call at 1 (866) 925-5454, text GOOD2TALKON at 686868 or connect online at https://good2talk.ca/

• Ontario Caregiver Association offers a helpline for caregivers at 1 (833) 416-2273 (https://ontariocaregiver.ca/)

• Seniors Safety Line is a helpline for Ontario seniors who have experienced abuse or neglect at 1 (866) 299-1011 (https://www.awhl.org/seniors)

• 211 Ontario is a helpline that connects people to various resources and provides contact information for them that you can reaching by calling 211 or through the 211 Ontario website (https://211ontario.ca/search/)

• Canadian Mental Health Association of Ontario provides information on mental health supports in Ontario (https://ontario.cmha.ca/provincial-mental-health-supports/)

• Distress and Crisis Ontario provides contact information for distress centres who you can call (https://www.dcontario.org/) 

• eMentalHealth.ca provides information on help and support generally as well as contact information for crisis lines (https://www.ementalhealth.ca/index.php?m=heading&ID=3 and https://www.ementalhealth.ca/Ontario/Crisis-Lines-including-Telephone-Online-and-Chat/index.php?m=heading&ID=21)

• Help Ahead is centralized resource and intake line for infant, child, youth and family mental health and well-being services in Toronto that lists crisis resources as well (https://helpahead.ca/resources/)