Medical Emergencies please call 911 immediately.

Mental Health Emergencies

If you or someone you know is in crisis, please contact Crisis Services Canada (1-833-456-4566 or text 45645), Centre for Suicide Prevention (1-833-456-4566).

If you need immediate assistance, call 911 or go to the nearest hospital

Here is a list of places where you can seek additional resources or assistance if you or someone you know is struggling with your mental health:

• Distress Centres of Toronto: The Distress Centre offers emotional support, crisis intervention, suicide prevention, and can connect people to emergency services.

• Gerstein Centre: This centre offers 24-hour community-based mental health crisis services.

• Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH): As Canada’s largest mental health teaching hospital and research centers, CAMH offers a number of services and programs.

• Telehealth Ontario: Anyone call call Telehealth Ontario for free health advice or information from a registered nurse.

• Mobile Crisis Units and Services: Employees with this unit will assess the situation over the phone or at a person’s home and provide immediate assistance.

• Warm Line, Progress Place: Progress Place offers a chat line where people can talk on the phone, over text or online with a peer support worker.

• Kids Help Phone: The Kids Help Phone provides 24-hour-a-day support for young people.

• LGBT Youthline: This hotline offers confidential peer support over the phone, text, or online chat.

• Good2Talk: This helpline provides confidential support to post-secondary students.

• Toronto Seniors helpline: 416 -217-2077

• Senior Safety Line : 1-866-299-1011

• TTC Crisis Link: The poster and payphone program encourages people contemplating suicide to use the payphone in waiting areas on each platform.

• SPIDER Program (Specialized Inter-divisional Enhanced Response)

• Victim Services Toronto

• Ontario Victim Services

• PFLAG: This organization offers monthly support meetings and one-on-one telephone support to Toronto’s LGBTQ2S+ communities.

• Assaulted Women's Help Line: The helpline provides 24-hour support in more than 200 languages.

• 24/7 Mental Health, Drug & Alcohol and Ontario Problem Gambling Helplines

• Toronto Rape Crisis Centre: The Toronto Rape Crisis Centre has a 24 hour crisis phone line for survivors of rape and sexual assault.

• Crisis Outreach Service for Seniors (COSS)

• Human Trafficking hotline

• Services for seniors in Toronto

• Toronto Withdrawal Management System Central Access

Other resources:

1. Family doctor and mental health professionals

2. Mental Health Service Information Ontario (MHSIO);

3. Ontario Self-Help Resource Centre

4. Ontario Peer Development Initiative

5. Canadian Mental Health Association

6. Community Resource Connections of Toronto (CRCT);

7. Local Health Integration Network

8. CORE