Mental Health

Friendship Centres offer holistic wrap-around support including mental health programs alongside broader kinship and community services. Friendship Centres can help connect you with Elders and other supportive services. Click here to find a Friendship Centre near you

General Support

• Toolkits, info sheets and other resources

Residential School Survivors
MMIWG2S+ Survivors
2SLGBTQQIA+ 
Youth

General Support:

• Hope for Wellness Help Line:
  • 24/7 telephone: 1-855-242-3310
  • Online chat: Services available in Cree, Ojibway, Inuktitut, English, and French and open to all Indigenous people across Canada
• Crisis Services Canada: Lists local distress centres and crisis organizations in all provinces and territories.
  • Canada Suicide Prevention Service Helpline: 1-833-456-4566 or text 45645
• Crisis Text Line:
  • Text: To reach a crisis counselor, text HOME to 741741
• Métis Nation Mental Health and Addictions Crisis Line (Ontario):
  • Telephone: 1-877-767-7572
• First Nations Health Authority (British Columbia): Provides information about mental health resources and additional services in British Columbia.
  • Toll-free telephone: 1-866-913-0033
  • Email: info@fnha.ca
• KUU-US Crisis Line Society (British Columbia):
  • Toll-free telephone: 1-800-588-8717
  • Adult telephone line: 250-723-4050
• Addiction Treatment Helplines: A list of provincial helplines for people struggling with addictions
• National Eating Disorder Information Centre: Website has information, resources, referrals, and support for people struggling with eating disorders.
  • Telephone: 1-866-633-4220

Toolkits, info sheets, and other resources:

• Truth & Reconciliation Commission of Canada
• Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC): Mental Health Factsheet
• NIHB Mental Health Services (see eligibility criteria) : 22 hours of counselling per year offered by Psychologists, Social Workers, Psychiatric nurses or other regulated mental health providers covered under the Non-Insured Health Benefits for First Nations and Inuit (NIHB). Contact your regional office for more information.
• National Inuit Suicide Prevention Strategy: Provided by ITK. Available in various languages.
• Centre for Suicide Prevention
• Bounce Back: A free skill-building program managed by the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA).
• Canadian Mental Health Association Ontario Division: Mental Health Information and Factsheet on reducing anxiety, stress, worry related to COVID-19
• Gone Too Soon: Navigating Grief and Loss as a Result of Substance Abuse: An English handbook to help people navigate grief and loss as a result of substance abuse.
• Connex Ontario: Mental Health, Addiction, and Problem Gambling services

Residential School Survivors:

• Indian Residential Schools Crisis Line:
  • Telephone: 1-866-925-4419
• Indian Residential Schools Resolution Health Support Program
• Indian Residential Schools Survivors Society:
  • Telephone: 1-800-721-0066

MMIWG2S+ Survivors:

• Family Survivors Circle
• National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls:
  • Toll-free support telephone line: 1-844-413-6649
• myPlan Canada: A free app to help anyone who has experienced intimate partner violence
• Assaulted Women’s Helpline (Ontario):
  • Toll free telephone number: 1-866-863-0511
  • Text: #SAFE (#7233)
  • Online Counselling
• SOS Violence Conjugale (Quebec): Provides 24/7 con‑confidential assessment, support, information and referral services in French
  • Telephone: 1-800-363-9010
  • Text: 1-438-601-1211

2SLGBTQQIA+:

• Native Youth Sexual Health Network:
• Mental Health Peer Support Manual for Indigiqueer, Two-Spirit, LGBTQ+, and gender non-conforming Indigenous youth
• Trans Lifeline:
  • Telephone: 1-877-330-6366 for peer support run by and for Trans people
• LGBT Youthline (Ontario): Ontario-wide peer-support for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, two-spirited, queer and questioning young people
  • Telephone or Text: 1-647-694-4275
  • Email: askus@youthline.ca
• Planned Parenthood Newfoundland and Labrador Sexual Health Centre, 2SLGBTQIA+ Warm Line:
  • Telephone or Text: 1-866-230-8041

Youth:

• We Matter: National campaign led by Indigenous youth dedicated to support, hope, and life promotion
• Youthspace: Online chat or text service for youth in crisis
  • Telephone: 1-778-783-0177
• Kids Help Phone: Online chat or phone line available
  • Telephone: 1-800-668-6868
  • Text: CONNECT to 686868 for English and PARLER for French
• KUU-US Crisis Line Society (British Columbia):
  • Toll-free telephone: 1-800-588-8717
  • Youth telephone line: 1-250-723-2040