Emergency Services: 911
24-Hour Problem Gambling Helpline: (800) 463-1554, afm.mb.ca
Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention: 613-702-4446, suicideprevention.ca
Canadian Human Trafficking Hotline: (833) 900-1010, canadianhumantraffickinghotline.ca
Canadian Mental Health Association: (416) 646-5557, cmha.ca
First Nations and Inuit Hope for Wellness Helpline: 1-855-242-3310, hopeforwellness.ca
Available in English & French and, by request, in Cree, Ojibway, and Inuktitut.
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Crisis Line: 1-844-413-6649, mmiwg-ffada.ca
National Indian Residential School Crisis Line: 1-866-925-4419, fnha.ca
Poison Centre: 1-844-764-7669, infopoison.ca
Talk Suicide Canada: 1-833-456-4566 (Quebec: 1-866-277-3553), talksuicide.ca
Trans Lifeline: 1-877-330-6366, translifeline.org
WAVAW 24-Hour Crisis and Information Line: (604) 255-6344, wavaw.ca
Wellness Together Canada: Call 1-866-585-0445 or Text 741741, wellnesstogether.ca
Your Life Counts: yourlifecounts.org
Kids Help Phone: Call 1-800-668-6868, kidshelpphone.ca
Available in English & French.
Crisis Text Line (powered by Kids Help Phone): Text "CONNECT" to 686868 or contact Kids Help Phone through Facebook Messenger.
If you are Indigenous, you can ask to be connected with a First Nations, Inuk, or Metis crisis responder (if one is available) by texting the words FIRST NATIONS, INUIT, or METIS.
Black Youth Helpline: 1-833-294-8650, blackyouth.ca
Listed in Eastern Standard/Daylight Time
Exhale Pro-Voice (after abortion support): (617) 749-2948 (weekdays, 6pm-11pm; Saturday, 4pm-11pm; Sunday, 6pm-10pm), exhaleprovoice.org
Mood Disorders Society of Canada: 1-866-363-6663 (Monday-Friday, 9:30am-5:00pm), mooddisorders.ca
Naseeha Mental Helpline: 1-866-627-3342 (call or text, 12pm-12am), naseeha.org
National Eating Disorder Information Centre: (866) 633-4220 (Monday-Friday, 9am-9pm), nedic.ca
Talk Suicide Canada: 45645 (text, 4pm-12am), talksuicide.ca
Youthspace.ca (under 30): (778) 783-0177 (text, 9pm-3am), youthspace.ca
For more information go to: https://findahelpline.com/ca and https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/mental-health-services/mental-health-get-help.html
Disclaimer: We cannot guarantee the quality of help offered by these services. Professionals and peers are not always the best fit. Try different sites/hotlines and refreshing to chat with new people. Leave if you are uncomfortable. And as always, if you are in danger, please call your country’s emergency line for help. Bare in mind not everyone benefits from every helpline or resource found here.