Help Lines and Websites
24 hours a day, 7 days a week help is available!
Crisis Support
Crisis Lines 24/7
- 1-800 Suicide 1-800-784-2433
- Indian Residential School Survivors & Family Crisis Line 1-866-925-4419
- Vancouver Island Crisis Line 1-888-494-3888
First Nation, Metis, Inuit Help Line
- Hope for Wellness 1-855-242-3310
- Immediate crisis counseling support with Indigenous counsellors
- Chat website hopeforwellness.ca
Transgender support
- Trans Lifeline 1-877-330-6366
Youth
- Kids Help Phone 1-800-668-6868
- Youth in BC youthinbc.com/ online, chat & text 1-866-661-3311
- Youth Space youthspace.ca/ online, chat & text 778-783-0177
Mental Health & Wellness Support
Free telephone counselling
- Wellness Together – Health Canada 1-866-585-0445
Text 741741
- After answering background questions, either on line or over the phone, you can have up to 3 telephone counselling sessions with the same counsellor
General Information
- Bounce Back bouncebackbc.ca/#gf_3
- Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) free online or telephone coaching support to help with feelings of depression, anxiety, stress or worry
- Confident Parents, Thriving Kids welcome.cmhacptk.ca/
- Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) free online or telephone strength-based coaching support help parents whose children are struggling with anxiety or behavior concerns
- Mental Health Information 310-6789
- Poison Control 1-800-567-8911
Men
- Heads Up Guys headsupguys.org/
- Support for men handling anxiety or depression
- Man Therapy mantherapy.org
- For men, by men – humorous & helpful